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Do you participate?

I've always voted in every election but I'm trying to get more involved/aware of the day to day stuff in my city. I am currently watching our city council meeting that is shown live on our local public network station. It is somehow fascinating and boring at the same time. Excellent time for some crochet as I listen.

I vote for local elections. But I live in a small town in OK so, it doesn't help much.

We vote in every election, but it's very easy to do and I think the bare minimum since we live in Oregon and the ballot and ballot guide comes to our house.

That's still more than what a lot of folks will do for most state and local elections.

I've voted exactly once in a state that doesn't have universal mail in voting and it suuuuucked.

I vote in every election and have volunteered as a poll worker, which I loved. I don't pay much attention to what the city council is doing between elections. That is something I should work on. :(

It's mandatory for Australians to vote in elections and I take pride in being able to vote.

Trying to, and stumbling, but admittedly watching a lot of stuff right now. It can get overwhelming. Also trying to get back into local Indivisible meetings and seeing what I can do for No King's Day and beyond.

Every time, all the way down the ballot, as far as voting goes. I haven't been to any in-person events since covid but I sometimes address and mail out postcards with information on the things being voted on.

I try to vote in local elections, to be honest I sometimes forget but I have been more engaged the last few years. I also attend open council meetings / town halls now and again. Some are dull, some interesting. I like hearing the public comments (a mix of local views, and of course weird people who are only there to start drama).

yeah its compulsory voting here in Australia for all elections, but event if it wasn't I would vote, especially in local elections because that does actually directly affect me and my community.

I don't get involved otherwise usually, though I do follow what is happening. We have some pretty fun local battles being fought. Like, McDonalds has been trying to open a franchise in my local council area for around thirty years now and has been blocked every time by a fairly small very vocal group of people and some rules council has set forth about it that McDonalds don't want to accomodate (like signage being small and unobtrusive).

It always astounds me how many things Americans have to vote for. Not just local government, state government, federal government, but law enforcement! School boards! Judges of all things! It seems really overwhelming.

it is, especially when you're in a state where your supreme court candidates are being ratfucked by Elon Musk directly. I think a lot of positions that are still voted - law enforcement, specifically - should be appointed by the governor or hired by a board like any other job, but there's a near-zero chance of that kind of change being made when our state legislature only meets for 2 months every year. Lots of places in the US are hamstrung by ridiculous shit in our state constitutions that were applicable when the state was formed in the 1800s but definitely have no validity in the 2020s.

I vote in every election that has any sort of contention - sometimes the smallest local seat is running uncontested, and while I think about going just to make a statement, there's really no reason to go when the entire ballot is two school board seats that have no opponents. but that's as much as I can do because it is so fucking exhausting having to get out and vote something like four, five, six elections per year.

I work for a city government, so I pay more attention than a lot of people, but probably not as much as I should.

It doesn't help that we're not allowed to discuss politics at work and I regularly hear unhinged takes from the "I pay your salary with my taxes" brigade when a) I also pay taxes, if I pay you back your $2.00 will you please fuck off? and b) actually we don't get federal, state, or even county tax money towards our salaries and c) there is no citywide separate income, property, or general sales tax. Almost the entire budget is real estate developer fees and hotel occupancy taxes; if you're not a tourist or involved in construction, or maybe paying rent on a city facility or something, you actually pay bupkis towards my salary.

We keep hoping to pass a local income tax measure so parks and recreation and libraries can stop sadly dividing the pocket lint and loose change left over after the cops are done getting paid for overtime, but the "I pay your salary with my taxes" brigade goes apeshit at the t-word and then screams when we have to close because half the park rangers and library staff got laid off. Again.

And we don't pay into social security, so whining about our cushy pensions makes me laugh. I have twenty years of service and if I quit or get laid off, I still wouldn't get a pension because I'm still not vested; I was hourly for the first ten years and half time for a chunk of the second. And I have to work 30 more years if I want to make 90% of my salary in retirement, which is scary because I already qualify as "very low income" because I make less than 50% of the area median income. The "I pay your salary with my taxes" brigade thinks we should all work for free, instead.

Someone was ranting at me recently that the mayor and city council are punishing them for not voting for the latest failed local income tax measure by closing parks and libraries instead of cancelling the mayor's pet projects. I really wanted to ask "and what projects are these?" because I was curious, but decided it wasn't worth a) getting in trouble because no politics allowed but the public ranting at us about "I pay your salary you parasite" is fine or b) being splashed with more flying spittle. I suspect the answer might be "how dare the mayor try and scrape together funding and space for homeless shelters when it's much cheaper to load homeless people onto buses and abandon them in the desert to die, or perhaps tie them up and drop them off a pier to drown."

There might be more shady real estate bullshit going on but a) I haven't heard anything super egregious and b) maybe if we had a local sales tax so half the budget wasn't coming from real estate kingpins and would-be slumlords, there would be less incentive for the mayor(s, this is a perennial problem regardless of their party affiliation) to let said real estate kingpins bribe them and/or use them as handpuppets.

Not a huge fan of my councilmember; I got dumped into his district via redistricting.

As for state politics, I used to think our governor was a career politician and hence intrinsically slimy but at least was pro-LGBT and pro-immigrant, but nope, in addition to being a rabid shitweasel about the homeless, he's recently walked back policies intended to help immigrants and gone full-bore anti-trans, plus keeps reaching out to right-wing reactionary shitheads.

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