The Countdown to the 2024 Election Starts NOW

~ Laura

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Last Tuesday, I spent most of the day answering texts. Sure, most texts were from friends telling that they voted for me. But there was also buzz about the general state of chaos at the new voting booths. 

The old way of voting was to walk into the gym at the local elementary school and tell the poll worker your name. She would find it in a book and have you sign your name on a form. If it looked similar to old signatures, she gave you ticket. Then you walked across the gym into the voting booth, handed the ticket to another volunteer, pushed some buttons, hit the green button the bottom, and then you were done.

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3 thoughts on “The Countdown to the 2024 Election Starts NOW”

  1. The 2024 election started 1/6/2021 at the latest. At least in a swing state, every election since then is mostly about stopping Republicans from preventing or usurping the 2024 vote. It’s not even subtext.

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  2. “,,Considering the money and the effort put into this election by a long list of local candidates, it’s really a bummer that 75 percent of voters didn’t show up. It’s like the worst party ever…” Both Jersey and my state of Virginia have electoral schedules which put a LOT of the races out of synch with the high-turnout national ones. At least here, this is a legacy of the Byrd machine, which wanted to suppress turnout in local races to entrench ‘the very best people’ in their local satrapies. Still working after all these years!

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  3. “The old way of voting was to walk into the gym at the local elementary school and tell the poll worker your name. She would find it in a book and have you sign your name on a form.”

    My town in SEMA is so low-key. You walk into the high school gym. There are 4 precincts represented by 4 sets of 2 tables. You go to the table for your precinct, give your address, then get your ballot. You go to a booth/table and fill in the bubbles, or in the case of the asshole right wing town moderator/school teacher being up for re-election, you write in something insulting like “Donald Duck’s Excrement,” then you go back to the other table, give your address again, and feed the ballot into the machine. Easy peasy.

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