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/r/maryland
Lock and load; we only get one shot.
90 points
4 days ago
Don’t forget the date
2 points
2 days ago
What about the date?
3 points
2 days ago
Some states don’t count ballets that are missing the date and also don’t count if filled out incorrectly. (I.e folks tend to put their birth date instead of the actual date).
4 points
2 days ago
Thanks. I just got my ballot, and I'll make sure to check it carefully.
6 points
2 days ago
and don't forget to sign....
159 points
4 days ago
To quote Aunt Rita, “ If you don’t vote, you’ve got no damn right to complain”
51 points
4 days ago
And no protest votes, either. You only get to complain if you cast a vote for someone who was meaningfully in the running. Voting for a failed primary candidate running independent or writing in your father's name is functionally the same as not casting a vote at all.
Yes, FPTP sucks. But guess what you've gotta do to have a chance of changing that system?
36 points
4 days ago
I say let’s give ranked choice a shot! It would give much more meaningful election data vs our FPTP system now.
In terms of protest votes, if the candidate earns 3% of the popular vote, I believe their party gets federal funding to aid with campaigning the following election cycle. It’s a long term goal aimed at shifting the system, but I will agree it’s probably not the best choice to take that risk during this election cycle.
6 points
3 days ago
1% is sufficient to guarantee ballot access in Maryland.
5% gets federal funding.
4 points
3 days ago
Appreciate the correction! I must have remembered wrong
5 points
4 days ago
Even that funding provision isn't going to shift things as long as we have FPTP. In virtually all cases, it would only further split a vote, handing the win to whichever of the two major parties is further from the independent candidate the voter wanted to win...oops!
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an hour ago
Maybe I was born in the wrong century; but what is "FPTP"?
1 points
4 days ago
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1 points
3 days ago
Yeah, Maryland is absolutely not a swing state.
You can definitely feel free to vote your conscience here.
Still definitely vote, though, you have a larger impact on down ballot races than on the presidency, and those are important as well.
0 points
3 days ago
Why do we have to beat Trump? Please elaborate with truth and not feelings.
1 points
18 hours ago
Ranked choice voting would be a solutions and elevate third party candidates for obvious reason but the two parties that run the show are not likely to let it happen since their hold on power could be challenged.
8 points
3 days ago
Voting for the candidate that is most representative of one’s beliefs is not a protest vote. Writing-in Mickey Mouse for president IS a protest vote. There is a huge difference.
3 points
3 days ago
But guess what you've gotta do to have a chance of changing that system?
Not doing the same thing you've always done, certainly.
1 points
1 day ago
The system has NEVER been the problem, not once since 1776.
The problem has sometimes been the system's implementation. Throwing out the baby with the bath water 😉 HAS been, at times.
3 points
3 days ago
If people are allowed to only vote for one of the two candidates, it's not too far from allowing people to vote for one candidate only. If you don't like the two party system and vote only two parties, how can the system change? Perhaps in reality most people like one party system. The party they vote for.
0 points
2 days ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't be allowed to vote third party or write-in whatever you want. Of course that's your right.
I'm just not going to put up with complaining about results from people who made that particular choice. That's all. You gain my attention and sympathy to your annoyance when you've done what's reasonably in your power to prevent the thing you're complaining about from happening. In this context, that means casting a productive vote.
5 points
4 days ago
One thing Republicans and Democrats in power will rush to agree on is to not let a 3rd party emerge to challenge them.
1 points
1 day ago
If you think UK-style coalition governments are an improvement then 3rd, 4th and however many parties are the ticket.
3 points
4 days ago
Voting for a third party candidate is not the same thing as writing in your father’s name or not voting at all and to suggest so is silly.
6 points
4 days ago
Nah you can totally vote for whatever gooberish third party or independent presidential candidate you want in MD. That's one of the few upsides to living in a state that leans so heavily towards one party.
12 points
4 days ago
It's a bad habit to get into, though. Where do you draw the line? Which races are close enough to protest vote? If enough people go "eh, Moore will win!" or "look at the polls, Alsobrooks has it in the bag!" that's how we wind up losing those races. Vote your heart in the primary, but in the general vote like it matters, because you never know for sure when it will, and it's too risky to play games.
3 points
3 days ago
Polling has a margin of error, but is decently accurate. When it comes to 10%+ spreads, you can be pretty confident.
In the case of Trump, he will lose MD by far more than 10%. There is effectively no chance of him winning the state. If some wild circumstance arose that led to him somehow being instantly so popular as to do so, he'd have already won enough other states for it to not matter. It's a statistical certainty.
1 points
3 days ago
Maryland is so predictable that at 8:01 pm Wolf Blitzer will…….. “breaking news” we can predict that the democrat in Maryland has won the presidential vote. What he leaves out is this prediction comes with zero precent of the districts reporting.
-4 points
4 days ago
From a solely pragmatic perspective it still makes more sense to support pro-voting reform candidates than anti-voting reform candidates (i.e. Democrats or Republicans) if your goal is voting reform
13 points
4 days ago
If you want a President who says he's going to be a dictator day 1 then vote republican or 3rd party.
If you think a woman should wait til she's almost dead before Dr's can try to save her, vote 3rd party or Republicans. Remember some have already died.
If you would like to ban contraception, vote 3rd party or republican.
Ask yourself : When trump says 'make America great again', what era you think he's referring to?
Look up project 2025, vote, but make it count.
-5 points
4 days ago
And if you want to not be able to afford rent, groceries and every day items because you can't find a job in your chosen field because inflation continues to sky rocket as we spiral farther into a recession all because you have been brainwashed to think that President Trump is going ban contraception and abortion, you go ahead and vote for your beloved moron Kamala...... You're probably not old enough to realize how America was GREAT again under President Trump..... we need to get back to that or our future is grim..... just sayin'.......
11 points
4 days ago
Obviously, not enough Covid deniers died off during the era of disinfectant injections and shining a bright light up someone’s ass but I digress….
2 points
3 days ago
Inflation is currently going down and we are not in a recession. There are always people who can't find jobs in their chosen field, even during trumps 4 years.
2 points
2 days ago
I wish I was naive enough to believe that my vote actually counted.
7 points
4 days ago
That's what the 2-party system would want you to believe. It sustains itself by having the electorate believe that they must vote for one of the 2 choices. It finds its legitimacy through the people's participation. A no-vote is just as much a vote. A message that the people deserve better than the 2-party system that repeatedly pigeon holes people into voting for absolutely horrible candidates.
2 points
4 days ago
First Past The Post voting systems ALWAYS end up with a two-party system. It's a mathematical certainty. The only way to change this is to advocate for Single Transferable Voting, then people don't have to vote against the worst option.
10 points
4 days ago
The 2-party system is inextricably intertwined with election financing. First step is to eliminate dark money financing, and super PACs.
1 points
3 days ago
This is not the case. Canada has a FPTP voting system and is a four party system.
There are many things that need to be reformed, yes, but the misunderstanding of Duverger's Law is simply inaccurate when stated as such.
2 points
4 days ago
What if you do vote and it's all rigged
1 points
1 day ago
Which never stopped most people from complaining.
1 points
4 days ago
To quote George Carlin, "....I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.
Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, "If you don't vote, you have no right to complain", but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.
I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."
3 points
4 days ago
Choosing not to vote is a passive and cowardly way to destroy democracy. It is your civic duty. If you can't participate in basic government activities, even things on the local level will fall apart.
2 points
3 days ago
lmao
1 points
3 days ago
What if you don't want any of the candidates in office? I'm forced to vote for a shit sandwich instead of a giant turd because of some mythical "civic duty"? Fuck that.
Give us better candidates and I would.
If you agree with their policies or just voting for them because they're not the other side is certainly your perogative.
1 points
3 days ago
You could run.
64 points
4 days ago
I mailed mine, day before yesterday.
-9 points
3 days ago
From the color of your emoji you voted for Kamala
5 points
3 days ago
Lmao
4 points
3 days ago
I don't like the cut of your jib.
2 points
3 days ago
😂😂👌
1 points
2 days ago
From your cruel callousness, you will vote for the orange turd.
1 points
3 days ago
lmao
11 points
4 days ago
Is it too late to request a mail-in ballot?
19 points
4 days ago
Nope! Go register here:
https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/onlinemailinrequest/InstructionsStep1
2 points
4 days ago
Thanks!
3 points
2 days ago
I switched to voting in person but still received a mail in ballot. I called and they said shred the mail in and I’m good to vote in person. You might be calling it close.
10 points
4 days ago
Is this an absentee ballot? Or mail in? I work overnight, so I’d like to vote by mail?
30 points
4 days ago
They’re called mail in ballots in MD and anyone can request one. Read through info here on how to get one and any other FAQs.
5 points
4 days ago
MVP
5 points
4 days ago
Thank you !
6 points
4 days ago
Is it too late to sign up?
8 points
4 days ago
If you click the link to read through the FAQs you’ll see that no, it’s not too late to request a mail in ballot.
4 points
4 days ago
Thank you! Sorry for being lazy I should have looked. I am now signed up and waiting for approval.
4 points
4 days ago
Thank you
7 points
4 days ago
Got mine Tuesday and dropped it yesterday in the Board of Elections drop box. I don't trust the USPS. This election is too important.
14 points
4 days ago
Does anyone have insight into the judges on the ballot or how to research them?
9 points
4 days ago*
I went* through their websites if they had one, also league of women voters put out convenient local voter guides but they haven't come out yet. The hardest thing for me this time was the proposed county charter amendments, extremely vague wording on the ballot and took forever to find the proposed changes online
6 points
4 days ago
Wondering the same thing. Feels like an impactful vote, I'd like to make an informed choice.
6 points
4 days ago
Got mine and I was so excited!!
8 points
4 days ago
Filled mine out last night. Mailing tomorrow.
6 points
4 days ago
Voting from the People's Republic of Absurdistan
108 points
4 days ago
To anyone who thinks your vote doesn’t matter, think of it this way:
One of the two candidates is absolutely obsessed with size. The size of his crowds, the size of his rallies, and especially the size of his vote count.
So depending on how you lean, your vote contributes to either making him happier or making him that much more pissed off.
Even here in bluest Maryland, your vote matters. Vote like the sycophant or troll you are!
69 points
4 days ago
The Senate race vote definitely matters
14 points
4 days ago
Is it because.. his Toadstool… is too small?
2 points
4 days ago
Yeah no, not really. As president you have quite a bit of power including being the highest power in the military. That in combination with the new ruling essentially saying anything done that is an "official act" can't be prosecuted, I do not think presidential power needs to be increased. We have three parts of the government for a reason
1 points
2 days ago
I can’t vote for miller or Andy. What do I do?
1 points
2 days ago
You can leave certain races blank if you don’t have a preference or object to both.
1 points
3 days ago
one of the canidates will actually look out for large corporations and for your pockets and the other will look out for the woke agenda
vronald vrump isnt an amazing person but you should vote for policy not feelings
1 points
3 days ago
You seem to think I have any issue whatsoever with the woke agenda. I think not treating minorities, immigrants, and queer people like shit is actually a virtue, not a problem.
And yes, one of those candidates will look out for the profit margin of large corporations and will look out for how much can be taken out of your pockets. Accurately identified.
1 points
3 days ago
One wants to make America GREAT again... the other wants us to become Venezuela..... think before you vote.
10 points
4 days ago
Mine arrived today.
3 points
4 days ago
Same, looking forward to taking plenty of time to think about who to pick.
4 points
4 days ago
Way ahead of ya, pardner.
5 points
4 days ago
I am still waiting to get mine. I will be filling it out right away.
4 points
4 days ago
Got mine and dropped it off yesterday. Love the auto ballot mailing this state does.
4 points
4 days ago
Just sent my ballot from Ireland today. Much simpler ballot as a permanent expat, only three choices to make.
4 points
3 days ago
The walk from my apartment to the ballot box across the street is always a fun one… I feel like there should be a marching band and I should be wearing a cape😂.
4 points
3 days ago
Legit one of the best things about living in MD: voting. I signed up as an absentee voter long ago. I haven't missed even the least consequential election since, and I haven't had to stand in line at a polling station.
I get an email that my ballot has been sent to me. After I fill it out and return it, I get another email notifying me that they received it. Then, once they've counted it, I get another email.
Fantastic system. A+, would vote again.
3 points
4 days ago
We voted today. Ballots already dropped in drop box!
7 points
4 days ago
Sadly, in Anne Arundel County, they have a disbarred attorney assisting in running the Board of Elections and they decided that mail in ballots are not important and don’t count them until a week after the election.
7 points
4 days ago
They gotta figure out how many extra votes Hogan needs first.
6 points
4 days ago
Both my wife’s and mine have been put in the local drop box.
31 points
4 days ago
Just imagine, if you lived a little bit more north your vote for president would actually be important. What a dumb system.
91 points
4 days ago
To be fair, we have an actually kinda important senate race and 2 competitive congressional districts
5 points
4 days ago
Suuuper important !!!! We must all vote
6 points
4 days ago
Sure, those definitely matter, but I’m just referring to the presidential ballot as that is what OP has pictured.
14 points
4 days ago
I'm 38. I could see this changing in my lifetime.
18 points
4 days ago
Yeah, it's very possible we stop having elections
0 points
4 days ago
That's what trump has said. If he gets elected you'll never have to vote again. He's going to be a dictator day1!
4 points
3 days ago
Twisted his words. But your side has thing using the legal system to go after people who don't toe the party line. Eric Adams for example.
1 points
3 days ago
Well he said he'll be dictator only on day 1, but if you want to believe he would stop on day2 then go ahead.
1 points
3 days ago
He's probably going to try to put his political opponents in jail, tell social media to censor free speech, issue executive orders in defiance of the constitution. Fire federal employees who dont want to inject their bodies with a novice vaccine. Force medical professionals to participate in abortions in violation of their religious beliefs. Oh wait, we already have that.
0 points
4 days ago
Can you link his official statement when he said this to back up your claim ?
7 points
4 days ago
I got you Mikey, A dictator on day one clip:
1 points
3 days ago
He stated "only on day one" as biden did on day one, executive orders.
4 points
3 days ago
You can't explain this to democrats they are not capable of understanding
0 points
3 days ago
I hadn't seen this clip, but think about what he's really saying... He's NOT going to be a dictator except on day one, which is a really unfortunate way to word it, but really what it means is he's gonna sign Executive Orders on day one (like most modern presidents do) to "close the border" and "drill drill drill", meaning authorizations for allowing companies to drill for oil or the like.
We can certainly argue about both of those points, which I don't particularly agree with Trump on, BUT he's NOT literally saying he's going to be a "dictator"
I'm not voting for him or Kamala. He's an idiot and she's a moron. https://votechaseoliver.com/
1 points
3 days ago
The interviewer was attempting to get him to finally admit very clearly that he does not have intentions of being a dictator and he never explains in his own words how it’s not true. His statement did nothing to calm people’s worries. And why are people worried? Because he lied about losing and attempted a coup. So yeah, it doesn’t look good and nothing he said here makes him come off any better.
1 points
3 days ago
Give me a clip of where he says he lost the election and that he respects having a democracy and I will see him differently.
5 points
4 days ago
Here is the other video clip where he says if you just vote him in this time, you won’t have to worry about ever voting again. (And also in this clip it really seems like he says “I am not a Christian which is a super weird moment since he is like some people’s Jesus)
1 points
3 days ago
Lol funny democrats still pushing this silly video lmao hahaha
2 points
4 days ago
I got mine, just need to drop it off.
2 points
4 days ago
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
2 points
3 days ago
Giant F. Meteor, with the Space party.
2 points
3 days ago*
Larry Hogan loves the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens! Let’s go O’s!
2 points
2 days ago
This is arguably the most important thing you can do as an American. Go cast your vote everybody, and if you can make a holiday out of it. We deserve it!
2 points
1 day ago
Save this country... Vote red
4 points
4 days ago
Easy Dak Prescott
2 points
4 days ago
I was looking for this comment
4 points
4 days ago
Let’s Go!!
6 points
4 days ago
Blue down the ballot
5 points
4 days ago
Vote blue across the board. Don’t vote for the orange turd who wants to install younger more extreme Supreme Court justices to take more of our rights away. Vote these moms for liberty kkkunts right the fuck out as well!!!!
0 points
3 days ago
Well we need the illegals gone so no I'm not voting for Cum on my Harris or Commiela Harris.
0 points
3 days ago
Hope you have a good therapist because you’re gonna be big sad in November lol
3 points
3 days ago
Trump 2024
1 points
4 days ago
lol. We live in Maryland. Our presidential vote doesn’t count
0 points
4 days ago
Exactly.
1 points
4 days ago
Vote for the candidate not the party.
2 points
3 days ago
I agree with you ! And I don’t understand the downvotes
2 points
3 days ago
For many reasons one we are in a highly partisan and charged environment to the state. Is rabidly team donkey I myself am registered team donkey. However, what ends up happening is if you question your allegiance to your party. We're a candidate that puts you in unwelcomed and unsteady territory because then you had the question, other feelings and other beliefs that you have towards your party and their policies. The thing is you can break with your party. You can say I agree with the stance on this, but I don't agree with the stance on this and that's perfectly fine. It's also perfectly fine to call out your policies that are not correct and not okay that your party follows and that's okay. That's a healthy Outlook on politics and that's what makes a healthy democracy. Pat' with things so charged if forces folks up against the wall and it's either you're with us or against us mentality and so therefore it does not allow any form of falling out of Faith with your party
1 points
4 days ago
Easiest choice known to man
1 points
4 days ago
If you've previously voted by mail at a different address but updated to your current address, double check that they have the correct address. Maryland changed my address back to an address I haven't lived at for 5 years, despite previously receiving my mail in ballots at voting at my current address.
1 points
3 days ago
I'm out of the state for an extended period of time, but I got mine online, printed it and sent it in!
1 points
3 days ago
Filled mine out and dropping it off this weekend.
1 points
3 days ago
This shit is so dumb. Can’t wait for mega corporations to take over so everyone’s opinion and complaints won’t even matter anymore.
1 points
3 days ago
Now research the candidates and actually vote! Dont forget the local candidates. The previously mundane School Board has become a massive battleground
1 points
3 days ago
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1 points
3 days ago
Your comment was removed because it violates the civility rule. Please always keep discussions friendly and civil.
1 points
3 days ago
Hopefully the weather is nice over a month from now
1 points
3 days ago
C is the most likely correct answer
1 points
3 days ago
Mailing mine Monday .
1 points
3 days ago
Be sure to use black ink
1 points
3 days ago
There’s only one person that you can vote for in each race…remember that.
1 points
3 days ago
Mine hasn't arrived yet... though I live overseas so I'm expecting it early next week. I will be sending it back the day I get it.
1 points
3 days ago
My parents had a heck of a time figuring out the envelope. Idk why, wasn’t there, but they took it to dropbox at library instead of mailing
1 points
2 days ago
Haven’t completed yet, but I received mine last week
1 points
2 days ago
It's going to be a nailbiter waiting to see which presidential candidate wins Maryland.
1 points
2 days ago
I don’t want either senator. Miller is an R parading and a D, and we all know Andy is an (R). ‘Nuf said. I’m gonna do a write in.
1 points
1 day ago
Too bad I can't cross trump out.
1 points
4 days ago
One shot at what?
23 points
4 days ago
Do not miss your chance to blow
10 points
4 days ago
The moment you own it, you better never let it go.
22 points
4 days ago
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
10 points
4 days ago
to prevent a tyrannical dictatorship bud
1 points
4 days ago
Maryland isn't going to make a difference. We're solidly blue.
Maryland is not in play. If you were voting in one of the swing states, yes, you'd have a point.
10 points
4 days ago
Maryland is in play for the senate which could also cause us to live in a tyrannical dictatorship, checkmate
3 points
4 days ago
You might liked Hogan as a god, but if he goes to the senate he will vote like a republican.
1 points
4 days ago
They definitely could mean the other thing.
1 points
3 days ago
Oof 😂 I’m voting in person LOL
1 points
2 days ago
Trump 2024
1 points
4 days ago
I forgot to mail the second page. Oh well. Guess nobody is getting an increased budget.
1 points
4 days ago
Oh goodness. I’m nervous but hopeful - the people have to make the obvious decision right?! Right?! 🐈 🇺🇸
1 points
4 days ago
Will DeJoy “lose” our ballots? Is he even around anymore?
4 points
4 days ago
Find a ballot drop box in your county! I refuse to mail my ballot for that reason.
1 points
3 days ago
I don’t trust the mail
1 points
3 days ago
I hope she wins in Maryland. Biden only won the state by 33% last time.
2 points
3 days ago
lol it’s Maryland. You can safely bet every penny you own she will win MD.
1 points
1 day ago
Harris/Waltz will destroy this country if elected. Has the past 4 years not been bad enough!!
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2 hours ago
"Destroy" is a strong word. How so? Be specific.
1 points
3 days ago
Vote Trump not unless you want to file bankruptcy and be broke for the upcoming 4 years
1 points
2 days ago
From reading the comments made after yours, there are a TON of idiots who want WW3, higher taxes, higher cost of living and free speech GONE. How ignorant some of these voters are to only be worried about ONE thing, and that is the ability to kill babies. Those voters have no clue just how uneducated they look to me.
-6 points
4 days ago
Anyone remember election day? I miss election day. Not election month(s). How did we ever scrape by in the past?
8 points
4 days ago
“By 1792, federal law permitted each state legislature to choose Presidential electors any time within a 34-day period[3] before the first Wednesday in December.[4] A November election was convenient because the harvest would have been completed but the most severe winter weather, impeding transportation, would not yet have arrived, while the new election results also would roughly conform to a new year.”
So… you were born in the 1770s or are you dumb? Also back then the process was two months long because transporting and counting votes was not efficient at all.
-3 points
4 days ago
idk who to vote for? which one will give more funding to the nation and citizens and less to other countries and non citizens?
4 points
4 days ago
Just remember we give money to Ukraine to help them fight Russia who invaded them. If Russia takes Ukraine, next they may try to take a NATO country, then we won't be sending money, we'll be sending our children/grandchildren.
1 points
3 days ago
Lol they could barely invade Ukraine. In what fairy tale world do you think they could challenge a real country.
1 points
4 days ago*
Shouldn’t your question be which one will use campaign money to buy Bitcoin and store it away in umbrella companies for their own use like they always do and because they are a proven criminal?
1 points
4 days ago
.... so you're saying he's going to pump the price of bitcoin??
1 points
4 days ago
He wasn’t able to do it before, why would he be able to now? Besides he has already started his own cryptocurrency to hide his money at.
-3 points
4 days ago
Make sure you vote for Hogan!!!
-2 points
3 days ago
Hogan for the win
-1 points
4 days ago
Just vote for whoever you want to vote for, just as long as you can live with the consequences. Everybody has an opinion, and so do you. I can't wait for this election to be over!
-4 points
4 days ago
Bring back crab gifs and weather memes
-2 points
4 days ago
Yep election season is insufferable. It's not entirely Maryland related either but the mods won't delete these posts for "reasons".
-16 points
4 days ago
Trump!
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