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Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris Win
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Trumpist county election officials are preparing to throw the process into chaos.

A lot of what needs to be done is making sure that the Harris win is large enough that you can’t easily claim that a handful of ballots should be tossed and change the outcome. That means:

  • Check your voter registration — part of the Republican strategy has long been invalidating registrations so people can’t vote
  • Volunteer — nothing in the world quite like talking to people.
  • Donate — money is used for everything from ads to voter turnout operations
  • Organize; be prepared to turn out with others in your community to actively object to any effort to ignore your votes
  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    4 months ago

    Uh, no, that is not why they are called polls.

    Middle English (in the sense ‘head’): perhaps of Low German origin. The original sense was ‘head’, and hence ‘an individual person among a number’, from which developed the sense ‘number of people ascertained by counting of heads’ and then ‘counting of heads or of votes’ (17th century).

    Yes to them being supposed to shift though.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
      25·
      4 months ago

      i’m not referring to the etymology of the word and your response seems to conflict with your previous post.

      your previous post says:

      don’t trust polls because they can change

      and this post says:

      polls are supposed to change

      • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        If you’re not referring to the etymology, then why did you bring up why they are called polls?

        No, I said I take them under advisement. This is an in-between stance between trusting them completely and discarding them completely. This is preferable to any sort of purist, absolutist position that would not be able to keep up with a world where things can change.