All the “the people you know can look up whether you’ve voted” messages are *really creepy*, actually. If I weren’t voting anyway, I’d find them threatening and offputting.
One of the sample postcard messages for that handwritten postcard campaign is similar; my knitting group collectively decided that was creepy and the people writing postcards decided not to use it.
I’ve also seen two YouTube ads with a similar message, except implying that your friends and family will check up on you.
Yikes - that is creepy! This week the Supreme Court upheld the legality of Younkins' purge of VA voters, which stinks. So I checked my record (it's fine). But if I hadn't been voting all this time, a letter like that would actually have the opposite effect.
@madgeface The postcard one seems like a weird miscalculation, because that’s a genuine GOTV effort, but the letter actually seems like voter intimidation.
@madgeface That was on the list of messages I could choose from for the postcards I sent. I thought it was WAY too creepy and didn't send it, but other folks were telling me it's actually the most reliably effective one for actually getting people to vote? I don't like what that says about us, heh.
I got one exactly like that yesterday, and assumed it was actually from someone trying to discourage people from voting because Big Brother will be watching. Like, "we'll know if you try to vote illegally" intimidation.
@BunRab It supposedly works to get some people to vote, and it’s one of the suggested messages for that handwritten postcard campaign that’s a serious GOTV group.
I don’t understand; I absolutely read it as threatening.
maybe I'm thinking about this too hard, but it seems like HYPOTHETICALLY if you were in an abusive relationship where you differed on opinions in politics this could uh... get ugly
@lapis The only thing they can see is whether you voted and what party you’re registered as, so if you register as the same party as your abuser, you could claim you’d voted as they liked.
if your husband didn't want you to vote and he could see that you voted. I more mean, I could see lying about not going to vote as a safety mechanism (though I hope this creepy WE CAN SEE YOU VOTE thing becomes widely known for hypothetical cases such as this)
Like it seems safe to say you agree with this hypothetical spouse's positions and claim you're gonna vote for the same people they do, and THEN do your voting in secret.
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This one’s the worst.
One of the sample postcard messages for that handwritten postcard campaign is similar; my knitting group collectively decided that was creepy and the people writing postcards decided not to use it.
I’ve also seen two YouTube ads with a similar message, except implying that your friends and family will check up on you.
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@hollie @madgeface Ewww. Maybe it’s the NT vs ND divide again?
I guess it’s “what will the neighbors think” all over again.
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@BunRab It supposedly works to get some people to vote, and it’s one of the suggested messages for that handwritten postcard campaign that’s a serious GOTV group.
I don’t understand; I absolutely read it as threatening.
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@lapis The only thing they can see is whether you voted and what party you’re registered as, so if you register as the same party as your abuser, you could claim you’d voted as they liked.
The vote itself is secret.
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no I understand that. I more mean like,
if your husband didn't want you to vote and he could see that you voted. I more mean, I could see lying about not going to vote as a safety mechanism (though I hope this creepy WE CAN SEE YOU VOTE thing becomes widely known for hypothetical cases such as this)
Like it seems safe to say you agree with this hypothetical spouse's positions and claim you're gonna vote for the same people they do, and THEN do your voting in secret.
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