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Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters | A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.

Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters

https://www.vox.com/scotus/367701/supreme-court-arizona-rnc-republicans-mi-familia-vota

A new Supreme Court case could potentially hand Arizona to Donald Trump.

Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters

If voting didn't have real power, the weirdos wouldn't work so hard to keep you from being able to.

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Guy_Fieris_Hair

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So, a total of a likely swing is about 0.333% to the red, Trump lost by 0.3% vs. Biden. If everything was equal, it would be a recount. Hopefully, Kamala brings more enthusiasm, and Trump dies off. I live in rural Arizona, my presidential vote never counts anyways, but I will say there are the same old Trumpers, but unlike the past 2 elections I now talk to a lot of apathetic Republicans that used to be vote red no matter who people. They are over Trump, they won't vote against him, but they may not even vote. That is something I've never seen.

So get out and vote and maybe we can vote in numbers too large to manipulate.

CluelessLemmyng

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Why would you think your Presidential vote doesn't matter because you're rural? It's a popular statewide election. It certainly does matter.

Guy_Fieris_Hair

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Well, I was under the impression that the presidential elections were done by prescients, and mine voted 75% for Trump in 2020. I was so sure about this I spent the last hour trying to find some confirmation bias article, and I was only met with a billion sources saying AZ is a popular vote with winner takes all. I chose to blame the way the media presents election results by prescients and my apparently minimal knowledge of gerrymandering for my gross misunderstanding of how this all works. Luckily, I have still voted in every election despite thinking my (presidential) vote was wasted.

However, in my adventures I found how fucked we are at the state level thanks to some republican "redistricting" shenanigans. https://www.salon.com/2021/12/04/will-arizonas-relentless-gerrymander-decide-the-2024-presidential-election/

aesthelete

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I live in rural Arizona, my presidential vote never counts anyways

Gerrymandering does not apply to presidential elections. It's a state-by-state contest. Your rural Arizona vote for president counts more than my urban California vote.