No standing back for me! Spent the last week on getting out the vote in Southern Oregon on local county measures and Oregon state elections. It was a great experience to meet so many others in my community where many thanked me for my efforts! A good warm up for November. Leading from the head of the line.
No standing back for me! Spent the last week on getting out the vote in Southern Oregon on local county measures and Oregon state elections. It was a great experience to meet so many others in my community where many thanked me for my efforts! A good warm up for November. Leading from the head of the line.
And Oregonians get to vote by mail, register to vote online, use drop boxes in every county, and mail ballots w/o needing a postage stamp. Most if not all counties have voter information booklets w/ info about candidates and ballot measures; the booklet comes free to every household about 3 weeks before ballots are due. And Oregon is part of the National Popular Vote compact. Hooray for everyone keeping Oregon democratic (small d)! I wish every state would follow Oregon's example.
I am green with envy at reading the great things about Oregon. I live in the racist, fascist state of Georgia and i applied to vote by mail here in the 2022 middle term elections and they never even sent me a vote by mail ballot and i ended up doing the early voting thing here. I do wish every state would follow Oregon's example. Georgia is horribly infected with the Fascist terrorist TUMP loving fascist idiots.
I will return to the New York courts next week to be a silent witness in court and a vocal one outside as I was a week ago when Stormy was testifying. We will win this case yet and TFG will stand convicted of a felony.
Here in New Hampshire, vote by mail is very restricted and we don't have early voting either. Trumplicans are trying everything they can to make it harder to register and vote.
Good тАШol boy Sununu. The apple doesnтАЩt fall far from the tree.
His father and namesake was also a NH Governor. His father is perhaps best know by the nickname тАЬSununukeтАЭ for his support of building a nuclear power plant in NH. There were large protests against it being built. Not only opposition by citizens of NH but also the Governors of both MassachusettsтАЩs and Vermont. SununuтАЩs push to build it was taking place shortly after the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Russia.
Sununu Jr sure looks like he supports the meltdown of American Democracy.
I can't live outside the tropics - my hands become useless in 45 degree weather. Maybe Global Warming will give me a chance to live in Oregon for my remaining days. Let me know if you see any iguanas in banana groves. :)
A bit like Maine. And quite a тАШfewтАЩ people have moved there from Maine because of that. 95000 square miles and a lot of it uninhabited. Plus a more temperate climate. Good places to live.
I am in Colorado where we have voted by mail for ages. I have a neighbor who left Georgia but is proud of helping elect your two fine Democrats.
Don't give up. I am certainly not. We have an excellent candidate to replace Ken Buck, if the two Republican -funded me n also running in the primary next month will just get the f out of the way. One is decent enough but can't beat Boebert, the other has anger management issues and it's his third try. What a mess.
I love living in Oregon for many reasons and vote by mail works very well. Voters are informed that their ballot is on the way and then they are informed when the ballot is received and cleared for counting. A lot of people have not voted yet.....high percentage, despite it being easy. We have a very important race in the D primary for the 5th Congressional District. The ads there are getting nasty as well as the ads for the Multnomah County DA. I am thinking the current DA is toast.
Here in California I was ignorant enough to not realize the reality that in other states it is so ridiculously hard to vote itтАЩs terrible to hear how they( republicans, MAGA) make it so hard to vote which is our right. It makes me sick.
All I can offer is two words "be careful". your comment "Voters are informed that their ballot is on the way and then they are informed when the ballot is received and cleared for counting"... frightens me. It would seem that this faith in the system could easily be wrecked if the (R)'ss-holes hire some slugs to make things go bad. The "dirty tricks" team is alive, I hope our guard is up... it surely should be.
I do not worry about this at all. The sec of state office and the Marion County clerk's office have long been under the control of Ds except for a short stint a few years ago because some fools voted for some third party and we had a R sec of state. He died while still in office and the D governor picked a trustworthy R that had been around for years....not one of the nut jobs. Oregon elections go quite smoothly...not too many glitches. We did have a R clerk in Clackastan (Clackamus County) who was a dolt and most of the screwups were on her watch. Voters got so disgusted that at the next election, they put in a D. If death star wins, i will worry about everything including my life. As for what I said, I am was merely explaining how the Oregon system works, so that voters really have no excuse. I have plenty of other things to worry about right now, to keep up my blood pressure if I let them.
IтАЩm always aware I had deliver my mail in to my local post office where I know the people yes IтАЩm in a small twon but I confirm by ballot on line several times I already am paranoide
Huh? Which one? So sad. All this 'up-heave-al' currently, coupled with the morass during #45's term has had a pronounced effect on our country. Thankfully, the Biden/Harris administration has been a relative return to sanity.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few"
- Wendell Phillips.
As recent actions by Republicans like Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz demonstrate, threats to democracy and equality persist. We must remain vigilant to protect these values from being eroded by those who prioritize power over justiceтАЛ
The clowns you just mentioned, are aided and abetted by the ever-increasing population of billionaires. A million-dollar fine or loss to someone who has 1000 million dollars is just a yellow piss-hole in the snow. One million dollars of liquidity over and above the money in ones household checking acccount, is a heck-uva lot of money. Having a couple billion to play with, you're basically untouchable. We have a ton of "untouchables", like our boy Elon, who're directing traffic. How about the Arabians who are building a 105 mile long line of "skyscrapers"..? You've read aboiut that, right?
Maryland makes it so easy to vote by mail I don't understand why we even have an Election Day, it should be Count the Votes day. Last year I signed up to always vote by mail so I don't have to request a mail-in ballot again. After I dropped my ballot off, less than three miles from my home, I got an email saying it had been received followed by an email that said it had been counted.
Martha Woods "After I dropped my ballot off, less than three miles from my home, I got an email saying it had been received followed by an email that said it had been counted."
I have been using exactly this same method for 20 years now in Colorado. And there has been nary a hint of fraud during that time.
Help us elect Trisha Calvarese here in CD4. I can't like your post for some reason but we need help. Look up the Horizon project, it's a recruiting and training plan created by Phil Weiser to get out the vote.
Oregon has used mail in ballots exclusively for more than 20 years. I believe our fraud percentage is less than 1%. (It lists the conviction rate at .00006% out of 61 million ballots cast between 200-2019)
Illinois here - been voting by mail for a long time and I am signed up to do so permanently. What I like most about voting by mail is that it allows one time to thoroughly check out each candidate, especially where judges are concerned.
Virginia is the same. IтАЩm away a lot so now always receive a mail-in ballot early. I too get an email that my ballot arrived at thevpost office and again when it is counted.
Because the demons have taken over and gerrymandered those states to death since the civil war they are imbedded. It takes extreme perserverance to bring to to supreme courts and they take their sweet time reacting because since trump they can. ItтАЩs getting so obvious as to what their are doing to our country and to donтАЩt give a rats ass, no hiding any longer their dirty deeds right out in the open and they are proud of it
Exactly!! I learned this year that people who are running can basically write whatever they want about themselves and stretching the truth is allowed. I was able to help senior call to repot there ballot as missing( never arrived) so proud to be able to help.
In my part of Pennsyltucky, we have drop boxes and postage-paid return envelopes. But we are required to sign and date the envelope due to some GOP -sponsored regulation which makes no sense at all. Consider that the envelope has a unique barcode which identifies it as legitimate and that the ballots are mailed out starting on a known date and must be returned by another known date and tell me why I should write a date on the envelope.
We do it that way in Colorado, and the signature and date are part of the vote validation process. A bar coded vote could be stolen (wouldn't put it past trumpanzees) and a lot of effort goes into the signature verification.
The ballot is sealed inside a separate secrecy envelope. Signing is like when we sign the poll book at the polling place. It's the date that is unnecessary -- except that the GOP legislature added it to provide another place to make an error.
I grew up in Medford. I always felt that with the exception of Ashland, that Southern Oregon was conservative. I'm thrilled to read your post. Keep at it. Here in Las Cruces, NM, my husband has been knocking on doors with much the result. Some folks even want to hug him they are so happy to see someone who cares. We have had t-shirts printed that says "I AM A PROUD DEMOCRAT" which we wear to let folks know who we are when we canvass. Keep up the good work. I believe it will pay off.
Today's letter reminds me of the Introduction to HCR's book, "How the South Won the Civil War." It is a brilliant summary of American history, a real jewel in only 16 pages.
Ellene...I have a sense that what you are finding in Oregon is what is across the country. However if you listen to the news....it sounds as though MAGA/white supremacy has taken over the nation.
That is okay though...as long as we don't let it discourage us....in our efforts to get out the vote. In Texas almost 50% of the Democrats did not vote in the election of governor and attorney general two years ago. Women could/should have stopped these racist, anti-rights, anti-life puppeteers.
Grass root efforts are growing, unions are returning, and some of the Republican shenanigans and hypocrisy is being covered by the media. And Republicans are getting so confident they are saying the quiet part out loud. I just have to believe that we are a nation of just, generous, humane, and environmental loving people.
It's time to flip that coin and super glue down. It's time to turn MAGA on it's head.
Keep up the good work Elaine. IMHO more people across the country are saying thanks openly or behind closed doors. They are those who do not want to be a part of surveys they feel are skewed, but privately are hearing and recognizing the importance of saving democracy in order to continue to perfect it. Thanks for your work.
I am in Germany, and a member of Democrats Abroad Germany. Not only am I getting ready to vote in the EU elections in June, for Democracy, but I have been organizing together with other DAG to help get more young Americans or Dual citizens living abroad supported to vote. It is different in each state, and some states make it harder to Vote from Abroad. Fortunately for my daughter and me, Illinois makes it fairly easy. After a conversation in the grocery store, a young German/American who told me she was not happy with either candidate gave me her number so we could meet and discuss the election. She told me she was not political. I told her not being political is a political stance. I also told her that not voting or voting for anyone besides Biden is a vote for Trump. We are also sending out postcards to Democrats and Voters Abroad, and there is a project to make a video for inclusion on why we are voting for Biden. My daughter and I are going to make ours together and take turns filming each other. Democrats Abroad will have delegates at the Convention in my home city of Chicago this summer. We also have issues that we are trying to get represented. According to this there are around 5.4 million, the State Department says around 9 million. That is a lot of potential votes.
One generally votes from the last state one lived in, and if you have children who were born abroad and have never lived in the USA, they also vote from the last state that their American parent or parents lived in. My precinct captain here in my city in Germany is inviting the youth group to tell those of us who are older, what we need to do to support and include young Americans in voting from Abroad.
No standing back for me! Spent the last week on getting out the vote in Southern Oregon on local county measures and Oregon state elections. It was a great experience to meet so many others in my community where many thanked me for my efforts! A good warm up for November. Leading from the head of the line.
And Oregonians get to vote by mail, register to vote online, use drop boxes in every county, and mail ballots w/o needing a postage stamp. Most if not all counties have voter information booklets w/ info about candidates and ballot measures; the booklet comes free to every household about 3 weeks before ballots are due. And Oregon is part of the National Popular Vote compact. Hooray for everyone keeping Oregon democratic (small d)! I wish every state would follow Oregon's example.
I am green with envy at reading the great things about Oregon. I live in the racist, fascist state of Georgia and i applied to vote by mail here in the 2022 middle term elections and they never even sent me a vote by mail ballot and i ended up doing the early voting thing here. I do wish every state would follow Oregon's example. Georgia is horribly infected with the Fascist terrorist TUMP loving fascist idiots.
I will return to the New York courts next week to be a silent witness in court and a vocal one outside as I was a week ago when Stormy was testifying. We will win this case yet and TFG will stand convicted of a felony.
Good job
BillЁЯСН!
Here in New Hampshire, vote by mail is very restricted and we don't have early voting either. Trumplicans are trying everything they can to make it harder to register and vote.
Good тАШol boy Sununu. The apple doesnтАЩt fall far from the tree.
His father and namesake was also a NH Governor. His father is perhaps best know by the nickname тАЬSununukeтАЭ for his support of building a nuclear power plant in NH. There were large protests against it being built. Not only opposition by citizens of NH but also the Governors of both MassachusettsтАЩs and Vermont. SununuтАЩs push to build it was taking place shortly after the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Russia.
Sununu Jr sure looks like he supports the meltdown of American Democracy.
Yes. I remember the father and am equally horrified by the son. Do you know what animates the family тАЬattitudeтАЭ? Is it stupidity?
No idea but itтАЩs not stupidity. At least not for Jr anyway. What most likely animates them is power.
Oregon is not without its blemishes, but it is a nice progressive state to live in.
Ah yes, Ally, it certainly isn't. I was glad to read the post from the person working in southern Oregon.
In the Western part of the state. The East want to join Idaho
And those of us living in Idaho don't want any more RW kooks and nutters. Thank goodness this movement isn't going anywhere!
ItтАЩs been reported that the Idaho governor would welcome both eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.
I can't live outside the tropics - my hands become useless in 45 degree weather. Maybe Global Warming will give me a chance to live in Oregon for my remaining days. Let me know if you see any iguanas in banana groves. :)
A bit like Maine. And quite a тАШfewтАЩ people have moved there from Maine because of that. 95000 square miles and a lot of it uninhabited. Plus a more temperate climate. Good places to live.
I am in Colorado where we have voted by mail for ages. I have a neighbor who left Georgia but is proud of helping elect your two fine Democrats.
Don't give up. I am certainly not. We have an excellent candidate to replace Ken Buck, if the two Republican -funded me n also running in the primary next month will just get the f out of the way. One is decent enough but can't beat Boebert, the other has anger management issues and it's his third try. What a mess.
I'm from Colorado too, District 8. We have to reelect Caraveo!!!
But тАЬa messтАЭ is what characterizes the groupies of Putin
Same with with backwards and racist state of Texas where extreme gerrymandering and voting limitations prevent Democrat votes from counting.
I love living in Oregon for many reasons and vote by mail works very well. Voters are informed that their ballot is on the way and then they are informed when the ballot is received and cleared for counting. A lot of people have not voted yet.....high percentage, despite it being easy. We have a very important race in the D primary for the 5th Congressional District. The ads there are getting nasty as well as the ads for the Multnomah County DA. I am thinking the current DA is toast.
Here in California I was ignorant enough to not realize the reality that in other states it is so ridiculously hard to vote itтАЩs terrible to hear how they( republicans, MAGA) make it so hard to vote which is our right. It makes me sick.
Arizona and Nevada need help from Californians who are able to go door-to-door and help with turn out to turn them blue
I do post cards every election but in my district maybe I can look into that
All I can offer is two words "be careful". your comment "Voters are informed that their ballot is on the way and then they are informed when the ballot is received and cleared for counting"... frightens me. It would seem that this faith in the system could easily be wrecked if the (R)'ss-holes hire some slugs to make things go bad. The "dirty tricks" team is alive, I hope our guard is up... it surely should be.
I do not worry about this at all. The sec of state office and the Marion County clerk's office have long been under the control of Ds except for a short stint a few years ago because some fools voted for some third party and we had a R sec of state. He died while still in office and the D governor picked a trustworthy R that had been around for years....not one of the nut jobs. Oregon elections go quite smoothly...not too many glitches. We did have a R clerk in Clackastan (Clackamus County) who was a dolt and most of the screwups were on her watch. Voters got so disgusted that at the next election, they put in a D. If death star wins, i will worry about everything including my life. As for what I said, I am was merely explaining how the Oregon system works, so that voters really have no excuse. I have plenty of other things to worry about right now, to keep up my blood pressure if I let them.
IтАЩm always aware I had deliver my mail in to my local post office where I know the people yes IтАЩm in a small twon but I confirm by ballot on line several times I already am paranoide
Hand*
Same in Tx
Literally terrifying!! John, please keep getting the word out about Georgia.
I live in Georgia, what in the Hell are you talking about.
Name one racist fascist policy in Georgia and walk it back?
Huh? Which one? So sad. All this 'up-heave-al' currently, coupled with the morass during #45's term has had a pronounced effect on our country. Thankfully, the Biden/Harris administration has been a relative return to sanity.
What sanity?
- 12,000,000 Illegals crossing the border? NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, et cetera are in chaos?
- Prices are up approx 30% over the last four years.
- Crime is 25-30% in major cities
- Forcing 100's of Millions of people to take an untested vaccine
- Taking children out of school for 2 years and forcing the vaccine on them
- Stupid foreign policy
- Energy prices up 35%
- Lawfare - using the legal system to prosecute political opponents
- Using social media to cancel free speech
What in the hell are you talking about?
I think itтАЩs your list of counter factual beliefs sheтАЩs talking about.
Wheww! James I'm sure not going to bother to fact-check you, but I think I could handle the results of such.
But you know that, so can act accordingly. Vote in person
So frustrating that this is happening
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few"
- Wendell Phillips.
As recent actions by Republicans like Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz demonstrate, threats to democracy and equality persist. We must remain vigilant to protect these values from being eroded by those who prioritize power over justiceтАЛ
The clowns you just mentioned, are aided and abetted by the ever-increasing population of billionaires. A million-dollar fine or loss to someone who has 1000 million dollars is just a yellow piss-hole in the snow. One million dollars of liquidity over and above the money in ones household checking acccount, is a heck-uva lot of money. Having a couple billion to play with, you're basically untouchable. We have a ton of "untouchables", like our boy Elon, who're directing traffic. How about the Arabians who are building a 105 mile long line of "skyscrapers"..? You've read aboiut that, right?
So true
Maryland makes it so easy to vote by mail I don't understand why we even have an Election Day, it should be Count the Votes day. Last year I signed up to always vote by mail so I don't have to request a mail-in ballot again. After I dropped my ballot off, less than three miles from my home, I got an email saying it had been received followed by an email that said it had been counted.
Martha Woods "After I dropped my ballot off, less than three miles from my home, I got an email saying it had been received followed by an email that said it had been counted."
I have been using exactly this same method for 20 years now in Colorado. And there has been nary a hint of fraud during that time.
See this 2020 Article:
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https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/10/01/colorado-mail-in-ballot-absentee-voting-how-state-perfected-system/3572176001/
Help us elect Trisha Calvarese here in CD4. I can't like your post for some reason but we need help. Look up the Horizon project, it's a recruiting and training plan created by Phil Weiser to get out the vote.
Living in Denver (CD1), I am unsure how I can do very much. But, my heart is with you... more of Boebert is unthinkable.
Look at the Horizon project or check in with Douglas county Dems, https://www.dougcodems.org/cd4-special-election-kickoff.
We can use your help, whether volunteering, phone banking or just a small donation.
Oregon has used mail in ballots exclusively for more than 20 years. I believe our fraud percentage is less than 1%. (It lists the conviction rate at .00006% out of 61 million ballots cast between 200-2019)
Same in Colorado ЁЯТХ
Illinois here - been voting by mail for a long time and I am signed up to do so permanently. What I like most about voting by mail is that it allows one time to thoroughly check out each candidate, especially where judges are concerned.
Exactly and early I know no other way. It needs to be a federal law because itтАЩs in the constitution
Virginia is the same. IтАЩm away a lot so now always receive a mail-in ballot early. I too get an email that my ballot arrived at thevpost office and again when it is counted.
Because the demons have taken over and gerrymandered those states to death since the civil war they are imbedded. It takes extreme perserverance to bring to to supreme courts and they take their sweet time reacting because since trump they can. ItтАЩs getting so obvious as to what their are doing to our country and to donтАЩt give a rats ass, no hiding any longer their dirty deeds right out in the open and they are proud of it
Fantastic! Nice to know civilization exists in Maryland.
Same here in California I really thought every state was like this till we had a trump running I started really getting into politics. EGADS ЁЯдм!
Me, too, Martha ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕ЁЯСНЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕
Exactly!! I learned this year that people who are running can basically write whatever they want about themselves and stretching the truth is allowed. I was able to help senior call to repot there ballot as missing( never arrived) so proud to be able to help.
Maine leads in instituting Ranked Choice (Instant Run-Off) Voting.
(In response to leftish voters who elect right wing extremists, by splitting the opposition vote.)
In my part of Pennsyltucky, we have drop boxes and postage-paid return envelopes. But we are required to sign and date the envelope due to some GOP -sponsored regulation which makes no sense at all. Consider that the envelope has a unique barcode which identifies it as legitimate and that the ballots are mailed out starting on a known date and must be returned by another known date and tell me why I should write a date on the envelope.
We do it that way in Colorado, and the signature and date are part of the vote validation process. A bar coded vote could be stolen (wouldn't put it past trumpanzees) and a lot of effort goes into the signature verification.
In California, who has had mail-in and drop off voting for years, we have to sign and date our ballots
How does signing keep your ballot secret !?!?!
The ballot is sealed inside a separate secrecy envelope. Signing is like when we sign the poll book at the polling place. It's the date that is unnecessary -- except that the GOP legislature added it to provide another place to make an error.
Good job Oregon!
Adding to what Martha Woods wrote, Maryland also has early voting days. It's very easy and lots of safe guards.
Excellent!
I'm not sure what the problem is today, but I am not able to give an up vote to comments that I think are great. Your's being one of them!!
I grew up in Medford. I always felt that with the exception of Ashland, that Southern Oregon was conservative. I'm thrilled to read your post. Keep at it. Here in Las Cruces, NM, my husband has been knocking on doors with much the result. Some folks even want to hug him they are so happy to see someone who cares. We have had t-shirts printed that says "I AM A PROUD DEMOCRAT" which we wear to let folks know who we are when we canvass. Keep up the good work. I believe it will pay off.
Yup, Southern Oregon is very conservative. Always has been. Another Medfordite here.
Today's letter reminds me of the Introduction to HCR's book, "How the South Won the Civil War." It is a brilliant summary of American history, a real jewel in only 16 pages.
California is also very good from my experience.
Washington State, too! ЁЯСН
And Colorado, too.
Ellene...I have a sense that what you are finding in Oregon is what is across the country. However if you listen to the news....it sounds as though MAGA/white supremacy has taken over the nation.
That is okay though...as long as we don't let it discourage us....in our efforts to get out the vote. In Texas almost 50% of the Democrats did not vote in the election of governor and attorney general two years ago. Women could/should have stopped these racist, anti-rights, anti-life puppeteers.
Grass root efforts are growing, unions are returning, and some of the Republican shenanigans and hypocrisy is being covered by the media. And Republicans are getting so confident they are saying the quiet part out loud. I just have to believe that we are a nation of just, generous, humane, and environmental loving people.
It's time to flip that coin and super glue down. It's time to turn MAGA on it's head.
Keep up the good work Elaine. IMHO more people across the country are saying thanks openly or behind closed doors. They are those who do not want to be a part of surveys they feel are skewed, but privately are hearing and recognizing the importance of saving democracy in order to continue to perfect it. Thanks for your work.
Everything is so clever and sneaky, I have to ask , are you for Trump or Biden?
Who are you asking?
I am in Germany, and a member of Democrats Abroad Germany. Not only am I getting ready to vote in the EU elections in June, for Democracy, but I have been organizing together with other DAG to help get more young Americans or Dual citizens living abroad supported to vote. It is different in each state, and some states make it harder to Vote from Abroad. Fortunately for my daughter and me, Illinois makes it fairly easy. After a conversation in the grocery store, a young German/American who told me she was not happy with either candidate gave me her number so we could meet and discuss the election. She told me she was not political. I told her not being political is a political stance. I also told her that not voting or voting for anyone besides Biden is a vote for Trump. We are also sending out postcards to Democrats and Voters Abroad, and there is a project to make a video for inclusion on why we are voting for Biden. My daughter and I are going to make ours together and take turns filming each other. Democrats Abroad will have delegates at the Convention in my home city of Chicago this summer. We also have issues that we are trying to get represented. According to this there are around 5.4 million, the State Department says around 9 million. That is a lot of potential votes.
https://www.aaro.org/living-abroad/how-many-americans-live-abroad#:~:text=American%20Citizens%20Abroad%3A%20The%20American,and%20other%20government%2Daffiliated%20Americans.
One generally votes from the last state one lived in, and if you have children who were born abroad and have never lived in the USA, they also vote from the last state that their American parent or parents lived in. My precinct captain here in my city in Germany is inviting the youth group to tell those of us who are older, what we need to do to support and include young Americans in voting from Abroad.
You just brightened up my Friday. Thank you ЁЯШК
Where in Southern Oregon? I'm originally from Medford and still have most of my family in the Rogue Valley.