You absolutely should always vote, in virtually every state there's a ballot proposition for you to vote on. Go ahead and leave the candidates part blank if you want to but still vote.
I remind people of all of the down-ballot things to vote on. County commissioners and school board matter a lot more to my daily life than choosing between red facist and blue facist.
Absolutely, adding onto this, downballot district attorney and judicial elections matter a fuck ton as it relates to criminal justice reform. These local office holders have far more power to reform the system than any single other person on the ballot.
The down ballot stuff is literally what drove me to the polls. They want to make it so that the county I live in is legally prohibited from raising any more money from property tax than they do, except to account for inflation. Let's be clear, that's not tax rate, that's total revenue. It's fucking insane and matters WAY fucking more than whoever is the figurehead of American imperialism.
Absolutely, and the worst part of this stuff is that they try to squeeze out votes for these things into low turnout off year elections. If anything voting in off years is more important than during the presidential years general election.
mine were right to repair and ranked choice. a couple other local 'non binding' ones like supporting environmental plans, and having the city council notes online. a little silly, but god i hope ranked choice passes...
You absolutely should always vote, in virtually every state there's a ballot proposition for you to vote on. Go ahead and leave the candidates part blank if you want to but still vote.
I remind people of all of the down-ballot things to vote on. County commissioners and school board matter a lot more to my daily life than choosing between red facist and blue facist.
Absolutely, adding onto this, downballot district attorney and judicial elections matter a fuck ton as it relates to criminal justice reform. These local office holders have far more power to reform the system than any single other person on the ballot.
The down ballot stuff is literally what drove me to the polls. They want to make it so that the county I live in is legally prohibited from raising any more money from property tax than they do, except to account for inflation. Let's be clear, that's not tax rate, that's total revenue. It's fucking insane and matters WAY fucking more than whoever is the figurehead of American imperialism.
Absolutely, and the worst part of this stuff is that they try to squeeze out votes for these things into low turnout off year elections. If anything voting in off years is more important than during the presidential years general election.
and tbh most of those provisions are always a no because a lot are elaborate schemes for the local bourgeoise to make a bit more money
mine were right to repair and ranked choice. a couple other local 'non binding' ones like supporting environmental plans, and having the city council notes online. a little silly, but god i hope ranked choice passes...
jeez why cant my state have based ballot votes
Absolutely, tons of evil shit goes through ballot props where they spend a shit ton on the campaign around supporting them.