here’s my other gentle rant of the night
if you didn’t vote
because you couldn’t, because you were too young, because you’ve got some charge on your record and they wouldn’t let you, because you managed to miss the deadline, because you have limited mobility or transportation and couldn’t make it somewhere, because you live with people who violated your rights by stopping you, because your anxiety got the better of you and you couldn’t figure out how to do it or couldn’t even look at the form, because you just plain didn’t have the spoons to, because voter suppression or ID laws caused you to get turned away
whatever the reason
(unless that reason is that you willfully chose not to because you either believed it didn’t matter or you thought it would be the best mode of protest)
if things go to shit, it’s not your fault, okay? Please don’t blame yourselves.
I needed this, thank you. I couldn’t vote Absentee this year because of requirements I couldn’t fulfill because I spend most of my time in school in another state.
You’re welcome. You have all my hugs and sympathy. College an residency rules associated with it are especially nasty culprits at making voting hard for young people. I also know a few people whose parents “did them the favor” of filling in their absentee ballots for them.
We moved states dangerously close to the cutoffs. I registered in time; he didn’t. We’re not sure if his vote that he filled in absentee for our old state will count.
Things happen. No one’s perfect.
We can’t stand up and move forward if our feet are busy kicking ourselves.
from Tumblr https://prettyarbitrary.tumblr.com/post/152954235850