Get Out The Vote ALL 50 States
Use these links to find your state Election Board.
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Alabama https://myinfo.alabamavotes.gov/
Alaska https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/
Arizona https://voter.azsos.gov/VoterView/Home.do
**Arkansas **No State registration page. Commissioners by County. http://www.arkansas.gov/sbec/election-commissioner
California https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/
Colorado https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/main.html?menuheaders=5
Connecticut https://voterregistration.ct.gov/OLVR/welcome.do
D.C. https://www.dcboe.org/Voters/Register-To-Vote/Register-to-Vote/
Delaware https://ivote.de.gov/voterlogin.aspx
Florida https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/CheckVoterStatus
Georgia https://registertovote.sos.ga.gov/GAOLVR/welcome.do#no-back-button
Hawaii https://olvr.hawaii.gov/
Idaho https://idahovotes.gov/
Illinois https://ova.elections.il.gov/RegistrationLookup.aspx
Indiana https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/indiana/
Iowa https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterreg/regtovote/search.aspx
Kansas https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView
Kentucky https://vrsws.sos.ky.gov/VIC/
Louisiana https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/VoterRegistration
Maine https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/voter-info/index.html
Maryland https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch
Massachusetts https://www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistrationSearch/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx
Michigan https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections
Minnesota https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/VoterStatus.aspx
Mississippi https://www.msegov.com/sos/voter_registration/amiregistered/Search
Missouri https://s1.sos.mo.gov/elections/VoterLookup/
Montana https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/
Nebraska https://www.votercheck.necvr.ne.gov/VoterView/
Nevada https://www.nvsos.gov/votersearch/
New Hampshire https://sos.nh.gov/elections/information/notices/voter-registration-motor-vehicle-law-jointly-issued-faqs/
New Jersey http://www.njelections.org/
New Mexico https://voterportal.servis.sos.state.nm.us/wheretovote.aspx?&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
New York https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov/
North Carolina https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/
North Dakota https://vip.sos.nd.gov/PortalListDetails.aspx?ptlhPKID=51&ptlPKID=7
Ohio https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx
Oklahoma https://oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp.html
Oregon https://sos.oregon.gov/voting-elections/Pages/default.aspx
Pennsylvania https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx
Rhode Island https://vote.sos.ri.gov/
South Carolina https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/eng/voterinquiry/VoterInformationRequest.aspx?PageMode=VoterInfo
South Dakota https://vip.sdsos.gov/vipLogin.aspx
Tennessee https://tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/
Texas https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do
Vermont https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/registration/
Virginia https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation
Washington https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVote/#/login
West Virginia https://services.sos.wv.gov/Elections/Voter/AmIRegisteredToVote
Wisconsin https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/FindMyPollingPlace
Wyoming http://soswy.state.wy.us/Elections/RegisteringToVote.aspx
I’m waiting on my ballot here in Germany
Has not only the linked voter registration check, but also has important dates, polling locations and hours, and other information.
Polls open Oct 21-Nov 1, with one final day to vote on Nov 5. If you don’t want to wait in a line, don’t put off voting until the last day. Polls will be open at least 9 hours the first week of voting and at least 12 hours during the second week and final day of voting!
Total side note because I could find anything on it. Why is it “Get Out The Vote” and not “Get Out To Vote”?
The popular one doesn’t seem to make grammatical sense, is this some older form of grammar hanging around in a popular slogan?
“Get out to vote” means you personally should go and vote.
“Get out the vote” means you should get everyone else out to vote. “Vote” is being used as a mass noun that you want to make as large as possible.
Oooooooooh, yes thank you. This will stop bothering me now 😌
Pokemon Go to the polls
hawk tuah the polls and vote on that thang
Thanks, please never say that again
Check your registration! Many states have been doing voter purges to try to stop you from exercising your right to vote.
Trump looks so young in this photo, I forgot.
You guys need a real democracy. This is just madness
Do Americans even realise that in other countries that isn’t north korea or russia, the president or representative of the country isn’t treated like a popstar?
Of course we do. The problem is that those that understand are drowned out by loud incoherence of holding on to the past. If you have ONE thing you disagree about it’s over. There is no more of an intelligent discourse. It turns into a sling fest of who is more right and we all lose.
Everyone I know thinks our two party system is shit, but at the same time they think we are stuck with it and that it is a waste of time to worry about things we can’t change.
They’re wrong. We could change it if we all collectively demanded a better system. We are only powerless because we choose to believe we are powerless.
The problem is most people are mostly concerned with their personal status quo. Change is scary and all the negative change doesn’t count so long as it doesn’t affect them.
Aussie here. Legitimately don’t even know who our Prime Minister is… Not hard to find out, just don’t remember their name
Probably something like Bazza, or Albo, or Slowmo.
I think its Slowmo…
Nar, I actually know. It’s Albo. Slowmo was the previous guy. (And Bazza I just made up.)
See, now here I was thinking all of them were made up but now I see Albanese as Albo… But don’t recognise slomo…
Slowmo is me mocking Scomo.
sounds silly, how is the president supposed to lead if they aren’t on the news constantly?
If only the popular vote mattered…
Hillary wasn’t focused on the electoral college, she cared about beating Obama’s vote totals to “prove” she should have beat him. So she prioritized the popular vote when campaigning, causing idiots to think she was going to win. Because normally if popular is that high. It’s implied battlegrounds are safe too. Because that’s the metric that matters and what campaigns should be focusing on.
Hillary just skipped caring about battlegrounds, went straight to popular, and declared that made her winner…
Like, statistically the NFL team that wins the Super Bowl is the one that scores the most touchdowns. But if one team scores 1 TD and the other gets 17 field goals, the team with the most TDs lost.
She focused on correlation, not causation.
Because of that trump became president.
Blame anyone dumb enough to give a shit about a national poll a week out from an election. Then realize a lot of Clinton’s 2016 campaign people are inexplicably now running Kamala’s campaign and the DNC.
We need to get rid of all those people who haven’t understood American politics for decades, they’re just the only other option besides trump so it still works despite them sometimes.
But they clearly have no idea what the fuck they’re doing.
That was apparent to my unqualified eyes. You could see it where she was campaigning. Trump was all over contested states. She stuck to the sure things.
Yep.
Anyone that mentioned it got called a trumpet…
Same thing was happening with Biden this time, but luckily they listened this time
Hillary wasn’t focused on the electoral college, she cared about beating Obama’s vote totals to “prove” she should have beat him.
She came up about 8M votes short from Obama’s big 2008 win. If she’d been aiming for that high bar, she missed it by miles.
Ironically, it was Biden who cleared it handily (with Trump coming in at historic-high second place) in 2020 thanks to mail-in voting boosting turnout nationally by nearly 20M votes. Of course, both parties immediately shut that shit down, lest Americans get used to the idea of convenient, accessible popular voting. The Trump/Biden Post Office under DeJoy has been dismantling the very idea of mail-in voting for the last four years.
I suspect 2024 turnout will be significantly lower across the board.
We need to get rid of all those people who haven’t understood American politics for decades
I totally disagree. We could use a lot of new blood, with people who aren’t resigned to the cynicism of the bi-annual election cycle. The folks who don’t simply submit to the psychic pressure of this heavily propagandized and chronically demoralized election waves are exactly the kinds of people who could break it.
Trump’s biggest triumph in 2016 was bringing out conservatives who had otherwise never voted. People who were too depressed by the duopoly to show up came out in droves during the GOP Primary to support their Big Wet Boy. That kept Ted Cruz out of the White House (which I’d argue would have been far worse for the country in the long run) in 2016.
Sander almost replicated the feat against Hillary that same year, but got kneecapped by a media that was hostile to the very idea of Socialism. But if you want any kind of progressive change in America in your lifetime, you need to see Democrats undergo the kind of change that the GOP has undergone, but from the left.
You need more people who aren’t consigned to voting Joe Biden mechanically every four years, even as he’s falling apart in front of your very eyes. You need more people who want to shake up the party establishment and vote out the rotten incumbents. You need people who actually believe what these candidates are saying, rather than accepting a basket of lies at face value and shrugging when the candidates fail to deliver.
But we can’t go into 2030 with a population of voters who just accept the status quo as the best they’ll ever do.
That kept Ted Cruz out of the White House in 2016.
Don’t forget about forgettable no-rizz Jeb! Bush
…please clap
I kinda don’t think it was ever going to happen for ¡Jeb!
But I’d have enjoyed watching Bush v Clinton from some alternate timeline, just for the laughs.
Yeah there were some people who were so certain he would sweep the floor of that crowded primary, but then he was just so rizzless. He didn’t even seem to want to be there
Of course, both parties immediately shut that shit down, lest Americans get used to the idea of convenient, accessible popular voting.
[citation needed]
The Trump/Biden Post Office under DeJoy
That’s the claim being made.
Could Biden have ousted DeJoy by now? Honest question, I really don’t know the specifics.
No, the president does not have that authority.
I looked it up in the meantime, apparently it’s standard Republican Senate fuckery if someone else is reading this.
The Postmaster General gets elected by the nine-member Board of Governors, that the President selects and the Senate confirms the members of. Obama nominated at least five people, the Senate confirmed none of them, and since terms were for seven years, the Board lost quorum, and delegated its powers to a Temporary Emergency Committee.
After Trump got elected, he nominated and the Senate confirmed eight people over his term. This gave the board a 5 member Republican majority, the legal maximum, but the Dem minority was also somewhat made up of Trump appointees.
Biden so far could appoint two people with Senate confirmation. Replacing DeJoy needs five.
Fuck James Comey.
Comey is from an era where upholding institutions was considered paramount. In that moment, that’s what he was trying to accomplish and he felt that it was in the nation’s greatest interest to do that.
Obviously it backfired. Comey is not a fan of Donald Trump and he later said that he was likely subconsciously influenced by Clinton’s win was a near-certainty.
He shouldn’t be criticized for his attempt at being impartial and promoting transparency.
Even if he broke DoJ policy to reveal Clinton was under investigation, and didn’t mention that Trump was also under investigation? He should have done either both or neither.
He should have done either both or neither.
You’re probably right.
This whole cycle is giving me huge 2016 flashbacks.
Yeah. 2016 was traumatic AF. Let’s be careful out there!
I’m still trying not to think about it as it dominates my thoughts. Holy shit.
The race is significantly tighter than in 2016, at least per the polling. Mostly, people are excited because its such a vast improvement from the Biden polls that had Trump winning in a landslide.
But folks on Lemmy don’t realize how hard-in-the-paint rightwing talk radio is currently going for Trump. The degree to which “Haitian migrants eating your dog!” and “Venezuelan terrorists have seized a condo in Colorado!” rhetoric has inundated the discourse can’t be overstated. People are taking this shit seriously and sincerely thanks to the breathless bombardment of migrant panic stories crashing over the news networks like a tsunami.
If I didn’t know better, I might suspect there’s a collaboration among arch-conservative megadonors and media organizations to saturate news networks with this fearmongering. I can’t think of any instance in which a news network spewing anti-immigrant sentiment to whip locals into a panicked frenzy has ever happened before, or what the consequences were, but I’m sure that’s not what is happening this time and even if it is everything will be fine.
Thank the deregulation of the 80’s and 90’s, coupled with the internet making it easier than ever to access anything and everything.
It used to be that spreading falsehoods or political bias on network TV or the airwaves via radio could get your station’s license revoked by the FCC. But Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine, and with that out of the way, there were no barriers for Rush Limbaugh and similar ilk to make more money by saying whatever kept the hyper-conservative, over-religious pearl clutches tuning in.
But Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine
I have mixed feelings about the Fairness Doctrine, because the practical consequence of the rule only ever seemed to give you a narrow “moderate liberal says X, moderate conservative says Y” corporately approved view. Hard to look at the modern media landscape and think to myself “Damn, if only we had more episodes of Crossfire to fix this”.
But yes, after the Fairness Doctrine, you saw an absolute flood of Rush-tier content that could blast uncontested bullshit all over the airwaves endlessly. The FCC went limp and allowed this to roll over the country.
I might also through in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which started a Katamari-esque consolidation of local radio and tv networks into the modern Clear Channel and Sinclair Media mega-monopolies. A big reason why Rush was a household name by the late '00s stemmed from all these local stations being force-fed his syndicated content, which was blasted practically 24/7 in rotation with a handful of other right-wing talking heads. This guy was cranking out three hours of content a day five days a week, and the shows would play back-to-back on a loop morning, noon, and night.
You’re spot on that it wasn’t perfect, and it especially falls apart when you look at the politicization of science and objective facts. E.g. climate change should not be a debate, so there should be no obligation to humor a talking head with an R next to their name who is there to “refute” climate change every time a story is run about it.
So on principle, I can’t say I love the idea that the Fairness Doctrine required a good bit of oversimplistic “both sides” nonsense. But in practice, it wasn’t the media personalities spreading politicized pseudoscience who ended up deplatformed with the law’s removal—the opposite ended up happening. Having realized that sensationalism sells, the “alternative facts” crowd are now the only voice in the room for a lot of clueless people. And I think that’s the outcome Republicans wanted when they did away with it.
In the absence of a better system today, I can’t say I wouldn’t like to see it make a return. I’d prefer it if there was still a legal obligation for all of these media outlets to platform at least one sane person.
Also right that it wasn’t just the removal of the Fairness Doctrine that led to where we are now, appreciate the other examples (and for a bit of a twist, it was under the Clinton administration that the Telecommunications Act was signed).
"In 1969, the court “ruled unanimously that the Fairness Doctrine was not only constitutional, but essential to democracy. The public airwaves should not just express the opinions of those who can pay for air time; they must allow the electorate to be informed about all sides of controversial issues.”
That’s how it started. I kept reading and it dawned on me how important it is to re-read what was learned in history class.
Fuck, why is it that almost everything that is bad in the US can be traced back to Reagan. It’s unbelievable
I mean iirc Hilary won the popular vote, no? The issue is our dumbass electorial college situation
Yes and No. Yes she won the popular vote, by close to 3 million, but No not in the “swing states” that had been considered “safe”. A margin of 10,000 votes in
WisconsinMichigan? Something like that. Anyway, part of that was Democrats seeing she’s a shoo-in and not bothering to vote.You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Size Football Stadium
This latest number comes from Decision Desk’s final tally of Pennsylvania’s votes, where Trump won 2,961,875 votes to Clinton’s 2,915,440, a difference of 46,435 votes. Add that to the official results out of Wisconsin, where Clinton lost by 22,177 votes, and Michigan, which she lost by 10,704 votes, and there you have it: 0.057 percent of total voters cost Clinton the presidency.
Electoral College is absolutely the Fuckery Factor though, that’s true.
It’s not dumb. The EC is working exactly as designed.
The EC is the fulcrum that allows the rich and powerful to bypass the will of the people by applying only minimal effort and expense.
Built to appease a former slave state, oppressing us all through the amplification of like 18 fucking red necks in one rural Georgia county…
Yeah, by less than 3 million. 2016 was the biggest presidential punt of all time. Think of how different the world would be now if she hadn’t taken that victory for granted.
That’s not getting better anytime soon. Best we can do for now is to mobile voters and squelch apathy.
At local levels find candidates that support RCV reform if you want real change.
The Republicans have won the presidency three times this century, but have only won the popular vote once, on George W. Bush’s second campaign in 2004. The Electoral College screwed us over in 2000 (Bush vs Gore) and 2016 (Trump vs Clinton).
The Deomocrats have also won the presidency three times this century, but also carried the popular vote every time they did. (Also, every time they won, Joe Biden has been on the ticket…)
so is that because of gerrymandering or how come the electoral college creates a different result?
It’s not intentional gerrymandering the same way that can happen when laying out congressional districts every 10 years, but it’s a form of gerrymandering from where the state boundaries got drawn. In addition, smaller population states have a disproportionate number of electoral votes, because every state gets 2 votes from their senators + a number of votes from their House members proportional to their population (minimum 1 representative, so minimum 3 total.)
Other than Nebraska and Maine, that splits their electoral votes, its winner take all within each state, so if you win a state by 1 million votes or just 1 vote, either way you win all of the state’s electoral votes.
Someone ran the numbers, based on the 2012-2021 congressional map, and worst case, you could win the popular vote 78.7% to 21.3% and still loose the election.
I’m pretty positive this is a bullshit meme and that bloomberg poll was from mid June of 2016.
The polls tightened at the end, especially following Comey’s October Surprise.
Nevertheless, we should fight like we’re 10 points behind.
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I’ve worked with them in 2020 and presently. That link doesn’t give me any bonuses, but they do have recruitment incentives if you have friends to get involved. Pay is decent, and they offer insurance on day 1. It’s obviously a limited term contract, but if you need funds, it’s a great way to get income and make a difference at the same time!
lol, nice 2.8/5 rating and 29% recommendation rate:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/The-Outreach-Team-Reviews-E1754444.htm
In fairness, it’s basically on-demand campaigns. So it probably depends very very heavily where you are. I looked though the reviews.
Admittedly their onboarding could be better, but it’s fast (2 days from interview to start), just during any given campaign season most people are learning for a while, the campaign swells ahead of the Election Day and then almost everyone goes back to whatever else they were doing. They do have a core HR team to handle important stuff like getting paid.
And yeah, canvassing is long hours, but it is still well paid for what they ask of you.
Two of the most difficult fuckwits to look at. To listen to. To hear about. JFC
That poll was taken in June, but I agree with the message.
This says October 19th 2016
Clinton Has 9-Point Lead in Bloomberg Politics National Poll
