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

  • CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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/