Make sure you are registered appropriately if you want to participate in a primary
Ignore all electoral content and news as if it were a spoiler for a show you’re really into. Do not merely avoid seeking it out. Actively avoid it. It’s a waste of your time and mental energy.
3 days before the election, look up your ballot and read up on all their policies and major stories surrounding them. You can dedicate anywhere from 1 hour to the entire 3 days to this process. Your choice.
Go vote. Ideally it should take an hour tops, but we all know that voter suppression can be fickle. Regardless, you’ve now saved hundreds of hours of memorizing polling minutia and obsessing about procedural quirks and getting angry at the theater of it all. Hopefully you used that time to organize instead.
I’d say vote because, on a local level, you can actually coalition build that way. I’ve personally been the deciding vote in an election where only 13 people voted. And the guy I voted in was a friend and a socialist while his opponent was a tea party nut. We’ve made a real difference over the past couple years and our little group of socialists who drank on the weekends has grown into a proper little org
Guide to voting:
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this is the Chad grillpill voting method. just vote because it's a fun thing to do every few years and don't worry about it
I’d say vote because, on a local level, you can actually coalition build that way. I’ve personally been the deciding vote in an election where only 13 people voted. And the guy I voted in was a friend and a socialist while his opponent was a tea party nut. We’ve made a real difference over the past couple years and our little group of socialists who drank on the weekends has grown into a proper little org