02-19-2020, 12:49 AM
(02-18-2020, 09:05 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(02-18-2020, 02:00 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: That's good news @"Ninurta". Time to get a team of boots on the ground and go door to door to make sure people are registered to vote and knows who to vote for.
One of the things I noticed in this last mid-term election is that there was no "R", "D", or "I" next to the names on the ballots like there usually is, so that unless you recognized the name, you didn't know how to vote. I think a great many people got taken by that, as they just voted on name recognition rather than actual political stances, and, well, Bloomberg paid a LOT of money in VA to get names out there and hide party affiliations. I believe that was done on purpose here, just like the Democrat gerrymandering was done, and will be done again after the census this year.
They are cheating, re-districting to favor Democrats and hiding their affiliations, then paying to get their name out there so that folks just vote for the name they recognize. What makes it worse is that the Democrats control the legislature now, and so they will be the ones drawing the district lines after the census. It's like having the fox guard the chicken house.
I believe they are hiding the party affiliations because Democrats have a damaged brand now, and no one will vote for them other than the hard core "Progressives", whom we used to call "Socialists" before they started trying to hide that affiliation, too.
It's going to be an uphill battle, and it starts in earnest right now.
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I have been looking for names of people running in our elections here so I can get "studied up" on what the represent. Then I'll write down their names and take them with me to the voting booth when the time comes.
That sucks that people up there were caught off guard like that. Our voting ballots still show the party affiliations here, or they did they last time I voted.