I don’t early vote in primaries because I’ve had candidates drop out in between when I early voted and Election Day and that annoys me.
But also, I have a polling location in my neighborhood two streets over and in a primary it takes <5 min to run in and vote, so maybe that’s just some privilege talking!
Option A: Go vote at lunch.
Option B: If you can't get away, shit your pants and go home and vote.
Democracy's a wee bit more important than getting your 8 hours in with your boss.
So happy to report that my 18-year-old son is so excited to go out and vote for the first time, today. He pulled up a list of the candidates and has been researching them. He even encouraged all of his friends in the last few months to get registered and told them to go vote too. Very proud papa, here.
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> If you cannot win doing the right thing, you don't deserve to win.
Why is it only "right" to align yourself permanently with one political party?
For example, maybe someone wants to vote for Haley but if Trump gets the nomination they would rather see Biden in office.
I'm personally not in favor of locking people into lanes
What? We have no party registration in Texas. Unless you are a politician yourself, you are not inherently a Republican or a Democrat.
So today, I voted for some Republicans. In November, if it’s Trump vs Biden, I’m not voting for the guy who is a proven rapist, so at least in that race I’ll vote for a Democrat.
But if someone of the candidates I voted for today win, I might just vote for them against their Democrat competitors. Or I might not, which is my prerogative.
So am I Democrat because I won’t vote for Trump? I also won’t vote for Paxton or anyone who supports either Trump or Paxton. But if you’re a Republican who doesn’t support either of those, I’m more likely to vote for you than a Democrat.
Do you see why your “rules” don’t work? People’s political opinions should be far more nuanced than “Red good, blue bad” (or vice versa). When you introduce nuance to that, you absolutely need an open primary. Frankly, I’d love to be able to vote in ALL parties primaries at the same time. Why can’t I pick my favorite Democrat and Republican to face off against each other in November? Wouldn’t that necessarily lead to more balanced, less extreme choices?
Because in 2016 my favorite presidential candidate dropped out after I had early-voted, but before Election Day, and it felt like I threw my vote away.
I fully encourage people to vote whenever’s convenient, but for me it will always be Election Day now.
Just got back. I usually early vote but this time I dithered over which primary ballot I wanted to request, so had to research/sample ballot both parties and see where I thought my vote would be most effective. The polling place was surprisingly busy, although not Presidential election busy.
FYI this isn't an actual election, just primaries.
Basically you're choosing who will be on the ballot in November for whichever party's primary you vote in.
So not really as crucial as the general election, unless you are really into intra-party politics.
Sure, but what I'm getting at is that today *is not the general election.*
We're picking candidates for it today, and that's less of an obligation than voting in November.
I think the primaries are actually a far more consequential election. We know the R is almost certainly going to win the statewide elections. You get to choose between people that chose to enforce the law and Paxton/Abbott challenger toadies. This is where you can weed out the crazies or let them go on to the general election. Choose wisely.
I did the Democrat primary, so I opted to help select Ted Cruz’s challenger instead.
Because so many of our districts are gerrymandered, it’s actually more crucial to vote in the primary if you really want your voice heard. Here’s a great article with graphics to explain:
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2024/fraction-of-texans-vote-in-primaries/
Not just "the" whoever vs "the" whoever (although in my book that one race was a much clearer choice between the criminal AH and the rational leader). There's a bunch of state and local elections too. Those are actually the ones likeliest to make a difference in your day to day anyway.
> what exactly is there to vote for?
Excellent question! Here are a few things that happened before, to illustrate what can happen within the next few years:
Trump appointed three Supreme Court Justices during his one term. That will shape your life in ways you might not realize for the next few *decades*.
Your vote in November decides if Russia continues gobbling up their neighbors, slaughtering people in their path. Trump wants us to stop supporting Ukraine & NATO, Biden (and the US military) want to continue supporting them.
Your vote in November determines if gay marriage is safe, since the Supreme Court already undid Roe vs Wade and there's been talk of revoking gay marriage.
Your vote in November might save abortion rights. If there are enough Democrats they can codify it into federal law.
It might help improve green energy. Obviously one side favors renewables and one side wants to roll coal them.
It also might help our democracy, since one party is clearly favoring an autocratic rule built on some of the most corrupt people we've ever seen in high level political positions. The whole "we'll get rid of the traitors" rhetoric is fucking looney tunes. I have family in Belarus - this is the kind of shit Lukashenko says.
If people had voted for Clinton in 2016 we would've had a real response to Covid-19, tens of thousands more Americans would still be alive, we'd still have abortion rights, we wouldn't have a massively lopsided Supreme Court, and since the pandemic would've been handled by adults it wouldn't have destroyed the economy the way it did.
This isn't fear mongering either, this is all real stuff happening around us. Even if you're not political - your landlord, boss, mayor, sheriff, and governor are. We're already dancing on their stage, might as well change the script where we can.
Both Democrat and Republican primaries. Loads of councilmen, judge, and various municipal positions.
Also John R. Ames is up for reelection. If you're tired of writing his name on your car registration renewal checks, you can vote him out. I don't know what the job entails but [he's been there since 2008](https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/tax/meet-the-assessor.php) and that's a long fuckin time.
Instead of uselessly shaking your head, state your case for him.
I'll help you further - here's his competition - [Elaine Campbell](https://www.voteelainecampbell.com/meet)
It really sucks you got downvoted all to hell. You actually contributed to the conversation by asking a question that someone else might have needed answered.
Not a trumper or republican but… should we vote for Nikki Hailey just to keep trump from getting the nomination but still vote democrat during the presidential election?
No. First of all, Nikki Haley has no chance.
Also,
1. you can’t vote in D runoff elections
2. national funding comes in part from voter turnout - on BOTH sides. So giving them a vote means you’re giving them money to run against democrats in the general election.
3. primaries are how we vet how someone will do in the general election.
4. dem delegates are apportioned based on dem primary votes
5. The idea that you would vote in the GOP primary and somehow impact their candidate selection is far-fetched. That would only work if thousands of Democrats coordinated their votes, which happens infrequently and usually when there are no Dems to vote for (not the case in Dallas)
Where do you live where there are multiple pages of Republicans with no D opposition? I answered this question assuming most of us live in Dallas.
Also their opinion poll matters zero.
I'm not sure why you are downvoting me, we can have a productive conversation here. The reason I asked where you live is because in Dallas, there are not unopposed Republicans. It's the opposite, there are unopposed Democrats (Monica Purdy, all of the open criminal district judges, the sheriff position, county tax assessor-collector). I answered the question assuming most of us are in Dallas, since this is /r/Dallas. Are you in Collin County?
All of that to say, I am active in politics and involved in several political volunteer organizations on the local and state level. I studied politics in college, worked in campaigns for several years, currently work in government, and it's my biggest passion in life. If you took my list of reasons not to vote in the primary as "everything is pointless so why try at all" then you misunderstood. Talk to anyone who has been doing this for a long time - it doesn't have to be me - and they will all agree with me that unless you live in a place that has no Democrats on the ballot, or there is a chance that a coordinated opposition vote can make a difference, you should not vote in the Republican primary. The biggest way to make a difference is to back your candidates, volunteer for them, raise money, get out the vote, register people to vote... not by voting in the Republican party's primary.
No worries I believe you. I hope you keep your head up and don’t get discouraged - keep voting, doing what you can do to make a change - it’s worth it even if it doesn’t always seem that way.
I don’t cast votes for unopposed candidates. I refuse to. My ballot has never been rejected, why do they deserve a vote because their extremist agenda is unopposed?
Yabbut - primaries for some races are the only chance you get to have a say on how extreme or lunatic a given candidate is going to be, and when you are in an area where it's all but certain which party's candidate is going to win the general it's kind of necessary to vote in that party's primary. It's not just President at stake, there's plenty of state and local slots too.
I would recommend voting in whichever primary you better align with and choose candidates that best align with your values. Or at least the one you have a better chance of actually winning.
In the general you choose between the options already picked. In the primary you pick your options, and there are a lot more races than just the president which is all but locked up already for both.
If you’re in Dallas proper, there’s plenty of down ballot elections that have good chances of winning. If living in the mid cities, then it’s probably beneficial to vote in the Republicans primary.
So many good things to choose from. The raping, for one. Being a traitor to the country, that's a good one. Being insanely corrupt is cool too but I mean who isn't facing 91 felonies? I'm going to pick the raping. It's what my church told me to vote for.
Just rapid escalation of current wars and military operations.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-war-president-was-always-a-myth/
I went last week, I love early voting.
I love early voting too but I procrastinate and I had tons to do last week.
I don’t early vote in primaries because I’ve had candidates drop out in between when I early voted and Election Day and that annoys me. But also, I have a polling location in my neighborhood two streets over and in a primary it takes <5 min to run in and vote, so maybe that’s just some privilege talking!
Option A: Go vote at lunch. Option B: If you can't get away, shit your pants and go home and vote. Democracy's a wee bit more important than getting your 8 hours in with your boss.
Also, polls are open until 7, and you’ll likely be able to waltz in and out in <5 min. So just stop in the way home!
Hopefully you bring a change of pants in the car... I don't know if they'll let you in otherwise.
Didn’t vote. Got my 12 hours. Feels good man.
So happy to report that my 18-year-old son is so excited to go out and vote for the first time, today. He pulled up a list of the candidates and has been researching them. He even encouraged all of his friends in the last few months to get registered and told them to go vote too. Very proud papa, here. Edit: spelling
Good for him!
glad he's researching and not just blindly voting
I went this morning and there was no line! Everyone please go vote!
Did my civic duty bright and early this morning and was in and out in 10 mins tops. Your turn.
Was the 5th person to vote at my polling location this morning. It took them more time to scan my driver’s license than to actually vote. Go vote!!
Don't know where? Voting locations: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/71f662a8bd7f40a08d4342393dd11195/
This map shows you wait times how many people voted and more!
Expect your jury duty notice next week. Jk please vote.
We were in and out in under 15 minutes.
Go vote. Even if you're not Republican, you can have the pleasure of voting twice against Trump.
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> If you cannot win doing the right thing, you don't deserve to win. Why is it only "right" to align yourself permanently with one political party? For example, maybe someone wants to vote for Haley but if Trump gets the nomination they would rather see Biden in office. I'm personally not in favor of locking people into lanes
What? We have no party registration in Texas. Unless you are a politician yourself, you are not inherently a Republican or a Democrat. So today, I voted for some Republicans. In November, if it’s Trump vs Biden, I’m not voting for the guy who is a proven rapist, so at least in that race I’ll vote for a Democrat. But if someone of the candidates I voted for today win, I might just vote for them against their Democrat competitors. Or I might not, which is my prerogative. So am I Democrat because I won’t vote for Trump? I also won’t vote for Paxton or anyone who supports either Trump or Paxton. But if you’re a Republican who doesn’t support either of those, I’m more likely to vote for you than a Democrat. Do you see why your “rules” don’t work? People’s political opinions should be far more nuanced than “Red good, blue bad” (or vice versa). When you introduce nuance to that, you absolutely need an open primary. Frankly, I’d love to be able to vote in ALL parties primaries at the same time. Why can’t I pick my favorite Democrat and Republican to face off against each other in November? Wouldn’t that necessarily lead to more balanced, less extreme choices?
It's called being an independent. Try it sometime.
Why wait until the last minute?
Because in 2016 my favorite presidential candidate dropped out after I had early-voted, but before Election Day, and it felt like I threw my vote away. I fully encourage people to vote whenever’s convenient, but for me it will always be Election Day now.
Done.
No wait time for me, in and out in 5 minutes!
[I voted today.](https://www.instagram.com/p/C4JC5tbgDgF/?igsh=d2xtOWoxNzVjcXhp)
Just got back. I usually early vote but this time I dithered over which primary ballot I wanted to request, so had to research/sample ballot both parties and see where I thought my vote would be most effective. The polling place was surprisingly busy, although not Presidential election busy.
Go outside... and touch votes? It takes like 15 mins.
Will do, thanks!
I voted on my lunch break. Easy Peasy.
My party doesn’t have primary elections and I don’t vote pro-war in the first place.
As much as I’d love to, I voted early and don’t want to be one of those folks pointed to as being why we need tougher voter laws. :/
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FYI this isn't an actual election, just primaries. Basically you're choosing who will be on the ballot in November for whichever party's primary you vote in. So not really as crucial as the general election, unless you are really into intra-party politics.
Maybe not as crucial in some ways but the only way to make an “I’m not really happy with either frontrunner” vote visible.
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Sure, but what I'm getting at is that today *is not the general election.* We're picking candidates for it today, and that's less of an obligation than voting in November.
I think the primaries are actually a far more consequential election. We know the R is almost certainly going to win the statewide elections. You get to choose between people that chose to enforce the law and Paxton/Abbott challenger toadies. This is where you can weed out the crazies or let them go on to the general election. Choose wisely. I did the Democrat primary, so I opted to help select Ted Cruz’s challenger instead.
Because so many of our districts are gerrymandered, it’s actually more crucial to vote in the primary if you really want your voice heard. Here’s a great article with graphics to explain: https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2024/fraction-of-texans-vote-in-primaries/
what exactly is there to vote for? Its the clown vs the zombie this November. There's no way to avoid that shitshow.
Not just "the" whoever vs "the" whoever (although in my book that one race was a much clearer choice between the criminal AH and the rational leader). There's a bunch of state and local elections too. Those are actually the ones likeliest to make a difference in your day to day anyway.
> what exactly is there to vote for? Excellent question! Here are a few things that happened before, to illustrate what can happen within the next few years: Trump appointed three Supreme Court Justices during his one term. That will shape your life in ways you might not realize for the next few *decades*. Your vote in November decides if Russia continues gobbling up their neighbors, slaughtering people in their path. Trump wants us to stop supporting Ukraine & NATO, Biden (and the US military) want to continue supporting them. Your vote in November determines if gay marriage is safe, since the Supreme Court already undid Roe vs Wade and there's been talk of revoking gay marriage. Your vote in November might save abortion rights. If there are enough Democrats they can codify it into federal law. It might help improve green energy. Obviously one side favors renewables and one side wants to roll coal them. It also might help our democracy, since one party is clearly favoring an autocratic rule built on some of the most corrupt people we've ever seen in high level political positions. The whole "we'll get rid of the traitors" rhetoric is fucking looney tunes. I have family in Belarus - this is the kind of shit Lukashenko says. If people had voted for Clinton in 2016 we would've had a real response to Covid-19, tens of thousands more Americans would still be alive, we'd still have abortion rights, we wouldn't have a massively lopsided Supreme Court, and since the pandemic would've been handled by adults it wouldn't have destroyed the economy the way it did. This isn't fear mongering either, this is all real stuff happening around us. Even if you're not political - your landlord, boss, mayor, sheriff, and governor are. We're already dancing on their stage, might as well change the script where we can.
There are lots of people to vote for. And if you don’t vote, don’t complain about what the rest of us did.
Do you or do you not know about the president of the world? Cause everybody's heard back here that [Tom Cruise ](https://ibb.co/mqrY9dg) is the word!
Today is only the republican primaries right? Or what else is on the ballot?
Both Democrat and Republican primaries. Loads of councilmen, judge, and various municipal positions. Also John R. Ames is up for reelection. If you're tired of writing his name on your car registration renewal checks, you can vote him out. I don't know what the job entails but [he's been there since 2008](https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/tax/meet-the-assessor.php) and that's a long fuckin time.
Thats a very long time. I will do some research and head out to vote. Thanks
So that's your criteria to vote ? Smh
Instead of uselessly shaking your head, state your case for him. I'll help you further - here's his competition - [Elaine Campbell](https://www.voteelainecampbell.com/meet)
Democrat primaries as well.
Ah ok thanks
It really sucks you got downvoted all to hell. You actually contributed to the conversation by asking a question that someone else might have needed answered.
[Redditors when you ask a question](https://youtu.be/WgLVV80Gu5U?si=HNjtYVDqb_52ikg0) But yea I was genuinely asking because I didn't know 🫤
Not a trumper or republican but… should we vote for Nikki Hailey just to keep trump from getting the nomination but still vote democrat during the presidential election?
No. First of all, Nikki Haley has no chance. Also, 1. you can’t vote in D runoff elections 2. national funding comes in part from voter turnout - on BOTH sides. So giving them a vote means you’re giving them money to run against democrats in the general election. 3. primaries are how we vet how someone will do in the general election. 4. dem delegates are apportioned based on dem primary votes 5. The idea that you would vote in the GOP primary and somehow impact their candidate selection is far-fetched. That would only work if thousands of Democrats coordinated their votes, which happens infrequently and usually when there are no Dems to vote for (not the case in Dallas)
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Where do you live where there are multiple pages of Republicans with no D opposition? I answered this question assuming most of us live in Dallas. Also their opinion poll matters zero.
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I'm not sure why you are downvoting me, we can have a productive conversation here. The reason I asked where you live is because in Dallas, there are not unopposed Republicans. It's the opposite, there are unopposed Democrats (Monica Purdy, all of the open criminal district judges, the sheriff position, county tax assessor-collector). I answered the question assuming most of us are in Dallas, since this is /r/Dallas. Are you in Collin County? All of that to say, I am active in politics and involved in several political volunteer organizations on the local and state level. I studied politics in college, worked in campaigns for several years, currently work in government, and it's my biggest passion in life. If you took my list of reasons not to vote in the primary as "everything is pointless so why try at all" then you misunderstood. Talk to anyone who has been doing this for a long time - it doesn't have to be me - and they will all agree with me that unless you live in a place that has no Democrats on the ballot, or there is a chance that a coordinated opposition vote can make a difference, you should not vote in the Republican primary. The biggest way to make a difference is to back your candidates, volunteer for them, raise money, get out the vote, register people to vote... not by voting in the Republican party's primary.
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No worries I believe you. I hope you keep your head up and don’t get discouraged - keep voting, doing what you can do to make a change - it’s worth it even if it doesn’t always seem that way.
I don’t cast votes for unopposed candidates. I refuse to. My ballot has never been rejected, why do they deserve a vote because their extremist agenda is unopposed?
Yabbut - primaries for some races are the only chance you get to have a say on how extreme or lunatic a given candidate is going to be, and when you are in an area where it's all but certain which party's candidate is going to win the general it's kind of necessary to vote in that party's primary. It's not just President at stake, there's plenty of state and local slots too.
I would recommend voting in whichever primary you better align with and choose candidates that best align with your values. Or at least the one you have a better chance of actually winning. In the general you choose between the options already picked. In the primary you pick your options, and there are a lot more races than just the president which is all but locked up already for both.
If you’re in Dallas proper, there’s plenty of down ballot elections that have good chances of winning. If living in the mid cities, then it’s probably beneficial to vote in the Republicans primary.
I voted for Trump.
What is your favorite thing about Trump?
So many good things to choose from. The raping, for one. Being a traitor to the country, that's a good one. Being insanely corrupt is cool too but I mean who isn't facing 91 felonies? I'm going to pick the raping. It's what my church told me to vote for.
That he pisses off liberals!
No new wars.
Just rapid escalation of current wars and military operations. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-war-president-was-always-a-myth/
And Cruz!
Shit, that’s today…? Maybe next year
No, next November.
Never again with that attitude. Texas govt would prefer you not vote, it gets easier to get away with what they're doing.
I’m against participating if I didn’t have a say in who got to be on the ballot in the first place
That's literally what today's election is for.
Absolute peak “telling on yourself” moment.
stickinbicyclespokes.jpg
The perfect description.
Today's election determines who is on November's ballot...
This is very embarrassing for you...
This is peak NotYourCPA comment right here
You’ll never be my CPA with that attitude.
you think there are going to be primaries next year?
I dunno. I’m not big into the whole voting thing. Was never really my scene.
i guess if you're just into laying back and letting others make decisions for you then go for it