The thing about elections is…

Submitted by radioflea t3_y1sck7 in RhodeIsland

You have to actually vote,votings never been more accessible in our state (mail in ballots, early voting, and voting on Election Day that’s open for 11 flipping hours).

As of 2022 we have 712,945 active voters in our state.

Source: https://whatsupnewp.com/2022/09/election-2022-voter-turnout-for-rhode-island-statewide-primary/

Do you know how many voters turned out for our primaries in September? 132,526.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/elections/results-rhode-island.html

We’ve had a mediocre election season,but we still have LOTS on the line especially for our most vulnerable Rhode Islanders and beyond.

Some helpful resources if interested:

https://elections.ri.gov/

https://vote.sos.ri.gov/Elections/PollWorkerInfo

https://www.rockthevote.org/

https://www.vote.org/

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/free-cheap-rides-polls-midterm-election

https://www.electoral-vote.com/

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dc_dobbz t1_is3g2ln wrote

I think maybe we just need to give up on the primary all together. There are many ways to make elections more competitive that don’t require people to participate in a ballot they clearly can’t get excited about.

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Pleasant-Champion-14 t1_is91lj0 wrote

I was pumped to vote in the primary. There were meaningful choices on the Democratic ballot. The republican ballot was lame maybe.

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dc_dobbz t1_is9y63p wrote

I’m always pumped for a competitive primary. But you almost always get weak turnout for them. And then have to sit through rounds of complaints about how shit the candidates are from all the SOBs that didn’t think the primary mattered. And why ARE we still leaving candidate selection to a tiny sliver of the electorate?

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[deleted] t1_is08tix wrote

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radioflea OP t1_is09fsm wrote

I could give a horses patoot how you vote but I encourage all active voters to vote.

You might have designated a mail in ballot in 2020, you can easily switch back to in person at one of the links above.

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brick1972 t1_is0jhqq wrote

I am not in the habit of saying never, so maybe you are the exception, but this just isn't true in general.

RI sent out applications for mail voting to everyone. Applications. Like you fill it out and return it (postage paid) and you then get a mail ballot.

I saw many many posts like yours on various social media about getting ballots in the mail when every time they were applications, not ballots.

If you want to say that's a huge waste of money just to try and get voter engagement, that's fine but reasonable people could disagree.

I also had a few people show up at the polls who had requested mail ballots and got really fucking pissed when I told them they had to do a provisional ballot so that it could be reconciled against their mail ballot so that it wouldn't be counted twice - but that it would count if they hadn't sent in their mail ballot. Yeah, turns out every one had already voted by mail.

The system isn't perfect but it works much much better than people think in terms of voter fraud.

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Coincel_pro t1_is0ukb7 wrote

I'm so sorry things are more convenient for you.

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bungocheese t1_is111ip wrote

you did not get a mail in ballot without requesting it.

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radioflea OP t1_is1bu4t wrote

99.9% of people received one in 2020 but if you moved, changed named, were a conjoined twin that got a detachment surgery, etc… you may have not gotten one.

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Puzzleheaded_Try1359 t1_is1qs1v wrote

All of these new accounts are just trolling subs pumping a bunch of nonsense. “I got a mail in ballot and didn’t ask for one” or “Dems are molesting kids” etc. down vote, ignore, and move on

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techsavior t1_is3nxh7 wrote

99.9% or people got an application to request a mail ballot.

Source: I’m part of that 99.9%.

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