Woohoo in-person voters! Virginia leading the pack

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Anonymous wrote:Va is solid blue of course. But this bodes well for the battlegrounds. Turnout was tremendous in 2018 (highest midterm turnout in over a century). I don't see why it wouldn't be the case again this year.

Solid blue? Maybe in NOVA. There’s an entire state out there that is not “solid blue.”

Do I need to explain statewide elections to you?

No, snotty - you don’t. Of course I know VA will probably go to Biden, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a huge percentage who vote for Trump. I always find it interesting to see the exact counts for each candidate. The statement “VA is solid blue of course” completely dismisses all of the red voters.

You don't want them to be dismissed? End the Electoral College.

The EC is enshrined in our Constitution - you realize that, right?

Sure do. And with that comes dismissing the votes of many. Seems you want to have your cake and eat it, too.

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I think RBG’s death is going to prove pivotal.

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Where are the rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse these lawless thugs?

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse these lawless thugs?

I hope they’re getting arrested.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse these lawless thugs?

I hope they’re getting arrested.

If they think they will stop us from voting, they have another thing coming.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are the rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse these lawless thugs?

I hope they’re getting arrested.

You mean, Trump supporters being held to the same standards as everybody else?
That would be a first.

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Lines were long yesterday in Chesterfield County, VA. It's traditionally votes red. It's a blue collar suburb of Richmond. 18,000 people voted by mail in 2016. They already have 36,000 requests. They've set up four satellite voting locations in addition to the registrar's office. The lines were long yesterday but it only took 15 minutes to vote.

https://www.chesterfieldobserver.com/articles/long-lines-form-at-registrars-office-on-first-day-of-early-voting/

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What on earth are they protesting against, people voting?

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By voting no for Question 1 on the VA Ballot, Districts will continue to be drawn by the party that holds the majority. Since the Democrats finally have a majority in the Virginia legislature, they get to draw the districts, which will be nice after years of Republicans gerrymandering for their advantage. Of course, now the Republicans are claiming we need this commission so we can’t use the process to our political advantage. Thanks, we learned that from you.

And to the PP claiming hypocrisy, do you mean like claiming 8 months was to close to the election so President Obama’s pick, Merrick Garland, shouldn’t get a hearing for the Supreme Court, but of course two months out Trump’s pick should not only get a hearing, but be rushed through? And how about claiming to be pro life, but trying to decimate the Affordable Health Care Act, locking kids up in cages and refusing to wear masks?

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A longstanding criticism of gerrymandering — manipulating electoral boundaries to favor one political party or class — is that it has been used to compact and dilute the representation of Black voters.

Some members of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus maintain the proposed commission would not do enough to eliminate racial gerrymandering. There's no language to ensure the commission is racially and culturally diverse. It could be all white legislators and all white citizens. It could be set up so that it’s very unfair. Ideally, for the idea to really work, it should be an independent redistricting commission with no legislators, only citizens. But, there will be eight legislators on this commission. Legislators have a much more invested interest than any citizen. And they will do everything they can, to get districts drawn the way they think would advance their interests.

Lastly, the problem with the amendment is, once it’s in the constitution, it’s very hard to remove from the constitution. So if the commission doesn’t work as proposed, we’re stuck with it.

Vote NO on question 1.

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Anonymous wrote:What on earth are they protesting against, people voting?

That would be absurd! I have no idea what they were protesting about and I'm pretty sure they don't, either.

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Lawless thugs made the NY Times.

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Anonymous wrote:What on earth are they protesting against, people voting?

That would be absurd! I have no idea what they were protesting about and I'm pretty sure they don't, either.

I don’t think they were protesting; they were merely showing their support for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Va is solid blue of course. But this bodes well for the battlegrounds. Turnout was tremendous in 2018 (highest midterm turnout in over a century). I don't see why it wouldn't be the case again this year.

Yes, because people who didn’t do “politics” now understand that they have power. Victims of #TrumpTrauma. I’ve been telling as many Hispanic people and young people as I can to vote. Period. Make no assumptions, ever.

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Oh, look - they weren’t blocking any entrances and they were 100 ft. away. Honestly - is there anything liberals won’t exaggerate or lie about?

“Election officials said that the group stayed about 100 feet from the entrance to the building and, contrary to posts on social media, were not directly blocking access to the building.”