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Sadly relevant tweet for people up here for a change. -- (link)

Posted by Shaun (aka bigshaunu) Jun 8 '18, 06:36

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https://twitter.com/AmberCadabra/status/1004919558422061056 (twitter.com)

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The beginning of Idiocracy is playing out in our world. Except it's not smart people avoiding having babies. It's smart people not voting. -- nm - Inigo Jun 8, 06:46 13
- We do a lot of things wrong. Hell, most of them are wrong. But having elections on Sundays is something I think we do right. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 8, 06:55 7
  - our polls were open for 12 hours. In theory to give everyone a chance to vote. Plus we have early voting which includes nights and weekends. If you - Andie Jun 8, 06:57 6
    - [deleted] 4
      - The politics of immigrants is quite different here and there aren't as easily defined ethnic blocks here - Reagen Jun 8, 07:20 1
        
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      - laziness. (We had 2 people Decline ballots as well as a protest, which I am okay with. They show up and then protest.) -- nm - Andie Jun 8, 07:02 1
        
        wait, decline was on the ballot up there? have things really gotten *that* bad? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 07:10
    - Plus you are legally entitled to leave your job to go vote. -- nm - Shaun Jun 8, 06:58
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- I think it's a little bit more "Boomers doing their level best to fuck things up on the way out the door". -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 06:49 2
  - Well, that's the other part of the Idiocracy comparison. - Inigo Jun 8, 06:57
  - Fuckers can't die out soon enough -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 06:57
- Yup. -- nm - Shaun Jun 8, 06:49
I haven't seen turnout numbers but I understand it was low - Reagen Jun 8, 06:40 3
- It was 58% the highest in almost 20 years. -- (link) - ajrimmer Jun 8, 06:53 1
  - Which is still terrible. -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 06:54
- my polling station had a 62% turnout. -- nm - Andie Jun 8, 06:41
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Working the polls yesterday was interesting. I was at a tiny location, so it was mostly one person (or couples) at a time. We had a LOOOOOOOOT - Andie Jun 8, 06:39 6
- Did you make Dave run and get you coffee and donuts? -- nm - decline Jun 8, 06:39 5
  - we couldn't leave. for 14 hours. however this lovely couple kept checking in with us... - Andie Jun 8, 06:44 4
    - :) -- nm - Diva Jun 8, 06:54
    - That's awesome -- nm* - ty97 Jun 8, 06:45
    - "brownies". -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 06:44 1
      - we may have made jokes about that. -- nm - Andie Jun 8, 06:44

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