RL Anger

Kanye Qwest

I really really really want to delete my facebook.

But it's the only way I have to log in to Love Nikki. I HAVE SPENT REAL MONEY ON THIS GAME SHUT UP. oh my god, life is so hard

Macha

I have gotten four texts just today about voting, who to vote for, etc, and gotten them steadily for a couple weeks now. And all of them are address to the WRONG PERSON. I've started getting vulgar in my responses.

Wretched

@macha I haven't gotten texts, just calls and people showing up at my door. Thankfully I mailed in my vote earlier so the conversation usually goes like so: Hi, are you voting? Yes I am and i have already mailed in my ballot. Okay have a good day sir!

Aria

I, personally, try to make them laugh.

"Hi, it's Jenessa with PA Dems. Do you have a plan for voting tomorrow?"
"Don't you worry, Jenessa. The only thing that could keep me from my polling place tomorrow is if it's LITERALLY on fire."
"That's great! And don't forget to encourage your friends and family to vote. They can find their polling place at <link>, and every vote counts!"
"Yeah, I know. And my parents are crazy old racists, so I think I'm just going to not mention it and see if they can figure it out themselves. Y'know, like their new Comcast remote."

Same conversation five times so far today, with Melissa, Mitchell, Meek, and an unnamed text bot.

Macha

@aria I did that for like the first week or so. I've done multiple political surveys in the last month, too. Because I'm not a total bitch. But.. christ on a cracker with cheddar cheese, check your rolls before you call/text!

mietze

Weird. In our area at this point we're using votebuilder to target our calls/texts specifically to people who have not returned ballots. (we are a 100 percent mail-in state) It really helps with preventing volunteer burnout.

Tinuviel

Weird. We don't need to be reminded to vote, because we have to else we get fined.

Aria

@mietze said in RL Anger:

Weird. In our area at this point we're using votebuilder to target our calls/texts specifically to people who have not returned ballots. (we are a 100 percent mail-in state) It really helps with preventing volunteer burnout.

My state doesn't have any sort of early voting because my state government is largely made of garbage piles and human feces.

By which I mean I live in Pennsylvania, the most gerrymandered state in the country. Like, I literally have to fill in all nine numbers of my ZIP code on 'contact your House Representative!' forms because my neighborhood is divided block by fucking block. Our state legislature maintains their stranglehold on Harrisburg by cherry-picking their voters.

Y'know, if they can't just keep them from voting at all.

mietze

I was skeptical of all mail in voting, but now (especially after 2 years of being a certified elections observer and literally having an open door to all parts of the process including the commissioners meetings) I am a believer in it. But its not cheap. King County WA has well over a million registered voters and a budget to match that scale. I think most elections municipalities dont.