Tag: voting

FFS Friday 2/6/26- Finally the midterm primaries

It’s been like watching paint dry waiting for the NC midterm primaries.

I mean, have you seen the shit that has gone down over the past year? And the shit that continues to rain upon us all?

Hourly.

Sometimes minute by minute.

I dutifully email and call the NC senators and my representative on the regular. And I get a pro forma reply. Without fail. But I still do it because being the squeaky wheel is in my wheelhouse.

Yes, that’s a pun. Deal with it.

The most important thing that I have been banging on about is check your voting registration. Well before the actual early voting primary start date. I mention that because the voter registration for the midterm primaries, except for in person registration on the early voting dates.

Run down of the dates that are important here in North Carolina. * your state may vary

Voter registration deadline February 6th
Early in person voting begins February 12th
Absentee ballot request deadline February 17th
Early in-person voting ends February 28th
Absentee ballots due March 3rd
Primary election day March 3rd

It is vitally important to remind people who vote by Absentee ballots that the administration changed the rules about postmarks on December 8th and they went into full effect on December 24th. Just because you mail it before March 3rd doesn’t mean it gets counted. Because postmarks only actually count when the piece of mail goes through the mail processing facility. And there are precious few mail processing facilities here in NC.

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH!

I WILL ALSO STRESS IT AROUND TAX TIME.

Get ready to vote. Start looking up candidates now.

Most importantly to do today
1) check that your voter registration is active
2) if you have been removed, re-register
3) if you’ve never voted before registration deadline is February 6th

But, Kate, the deadline is today for voting registration.

My bad, I thought it was tomorrow (the 7th).

However, same-day voter registration is available during in-person early voting.

Please get ready to vote.

Don’t let the snow and the ice and chaos distract you.

Get ready to vote now.

Make a voting plan and stick to it.

Tuesday Top of Mind 11/5/24- your vote is private

Over the last two weeks, I have heard many, many, many, many, many attacks on women. Men are interested in how learning a woman, any woman, THEIR woman voted.

Ladies and gentlemen, you don’t owe anyone an answer to this.

It is none of their business HOW you voted.

It is none of their business IF you voted. Although, I wish you would.

Some men even equated not voting in lockstep with their vote to cheating. Cough, cough, jesse watters.

Um.

Take several steps back, sir.

In fact, check yourself. I realize that you think having an outie sex organ entitles you to all the things. But it doesn’t.

A woman in her EIGHTIES voted for the first time because her husband, who had decreed that it is not important that she vote, died last year.

There are so many stories about men and others but mostly men, putting pressure on women to vote the way that the man does. Or even stopping women from voting. Where do you think you live, sir? Iran or Afghanistan. The woman’s right to vote is enshrined in the 19th Amendment and we will not be denied.

Of course, there is a lot of chatter “joking” that the 19th Amendment has to be repealed. Yeah, I’ve seen your jokes. There is always a kernel or even a whole ear of corn of truth.

You and what army?

There are stories of breakups over a woman not telling a man who they voted for. Of men looming over their partners in the voting area in an intimidating manner. BTW, this is not allowed. Men who gave their wives the silent treatment because the wives dared to 1) vote and 2) not to tell them how they voted.

If I was confronted and someone demanded I tell them how I voted, I would tell the truth. I voted straight blue ticket. Yes, all of them, even the ballots that don’t have party affiliations on them. I can research and read up on the people I am voting for before I go to the early voting site.

But not all women are like me. And that’s okay.

This is your permission slip to lie. This isn’t something I would do, but you have to live your life.

No one has the right to know who you voted for.