Another way to think of it is this: Americans usually want something along the lines of the opposite of whatever we’ve just had in the Presidency. And I might be the one person who can say that, whether it’s President Trump or President Pence, I represent the opposite of what we have just had.
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I could not vote for Trump or Clinton.
I'm going to continue to demonstrate that everyone in every state is important to the future of this country. And no one can be written off or taken for granted based on where they live or how they voted in the past, or whether they voted at all.
On the day of the swearing-in, it really hit me, the significance of the whole thing. It hadn't sunk in until I was standing there on the floor with my hand in the air and reciting that oath. It's one of the highlights of my life. I carried a scarf with me that my sister had made for me. She started…
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.
Statistics show that voter turnout is significantly lower for midterm elections than presidential ones, which impacts the overall election results. Only 37% of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterm elections; the lowest voter turnout since WWII.
Things have gotten worse with the left, and we’re not taking it anymore. I’m encouraging my children to vote. I’ve got a lot of Republican friends. We’re going to show those Democrats that we see what they’re doing.
We can fix this.
There was never an age when elections were pristine and unassailable. The greedy and the corrupt have always tried to tamper with the mechanics of voting, with who does it and how often, with which ballots are counted and how many times.
— Sean Flynn, gq.com
Politicians are so afraid of losing power that some are doing anything they can to diminish the rights of people who threaten their power...meaning voters. Meaning constituents. Meaning the people who put them in power in the first place.
[his last words] I'm a retired investor living on a pension. I came home to vote in the presidential election because they wouldn't give me an absentee ballot. [Seconds later, Rocco walks up to Roth and shoots him in the stomach, killing him]
— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Hyman Roth, Lee Strasberg, imdb.com
Please, please educate yourself on the candidates running in your state and vote based on who most closely represents your values. For a lot of us, we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue, but we have to vote anyway.
Treat every election like it’s the last one you’ll ever have.
Thanks for voting, come again but not today because that would be illegal, come again next time we elect things.
Treat every election like it’s the last one you’ll ever have.
You can only vote within your race or your group. Just pretend it's the 1950s. It makes it easier to understand.
— Jenji Kohan, Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols, Natasha Lyonne, imdb.com
We vote because I say we vote!
The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument we have in a democratic society. We must use it.
A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.
The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul.