2026-11-03 15:17 UTC
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@rstein@social.tchncs.de 2026-11-03 15:30
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place It is a shame. I worked at our polls often, we had 20 people waiting at peak, perhaps 10 minutes or so.
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@Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social 2026-11-03 15:42
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I am in Tarrant County, TX, where GOP County commissions voted to close about 1/3 of our early voting locations.
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@ottomate@noc.social 2026-11-03 17:04
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I voted last week. Do people who don't know enough news to realize election day in-person voting is going to be unusually stressful this year still know decent candidates to vote for? Or are these the precincts where voter suppression includes disallowing early voting?
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@paco@infosec.exchange 2026-11-03 18:30
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Yes. They are the real heroes. As an election official in a county that supports 4 languages well and 7 more a little bit, it’s infuriating to see this. It’s not hard to support non-white voters and non-English speakers. It’s a choice to be difficult. And it makes me so mad.
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@KanaMauna@sauropods.win 2026-11-03 18:46
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social These are deliberate choices. In California I haven’t had to vote in person for years and even when I did, the line was 0-2 people.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-11-03 19:10
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social In my state, we all receive a ballot in the mail, and either bring it to a drop box or mail it back. * Nobody stands in line to vote. * Typical turnout is something like 90%. * Ballots are paper and the envelopes are signed by the voter, so there's a robust paper trail. * Voters are registered when they're issued their state IDs, so there is implicitly an ID check. * Take all the time you need to research your vote. I highly recommend everyone else institute the same system.
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2026-11-03 19:19
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Racist government. Shame. Pricks.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-11-03 19:40
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Why doesn't the USA ever have enough polling stations?
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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2026-11-03 21:45
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social and to think that with that level of voter suppression they still have the audacity to call themselves a democracy?
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@cturnbow@mastodon.world 2026-11-04 00:56
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social My polling place today had just TWO voting machines; they added a third while I was in line; previous elections always had many more.... hmmm....