- cross-posted to:
- queer@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- queer@kbin.social
A second transgender candidate running for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House is at risk of being disqualified from the ballot after omitting her former name on circulating petitions.
The Mercer County Board of Elections is set to vote Thursday on whether Arienne Childrey, a Democrat from Auglaize County and one of four transgender individuals campaigning for the Legislature, is eligible to run after not disclosing her previous name, also known as her deadname, on her petition paperwork.
A little-used Ohio elections law, unfamiliar even to many state elections officials, mandates that candidates disclose any name changes in the last five years on their petitions paperwork, with exemptions for name changes due to marriage. But the law isn’t listed in the 33-page candidate requirement guide and there is no space on the petition paperwork to list any former names.
You know how this is stopped? Good people need to replace those on the board of elections and other positions. This is what Republicans are doing (but with bad people) with great success, while those on the left or opting out, discouraging participation, and guaranteeing loss.
For some reason, half of Lemmy is so confident that waiting (because doing anything more than reading and talking shit on LIBS! doesn’t actually occur) for a massive war between the East and West where hundreds of millions die and whole ecosystems are destroyed is easier and more likely to be successful than voting that they won’t even cast a ballot.
Imagine thinking, “oh, voting won’t work, running for office won’t work, sorry my minority “friends”, I’m not gonna do something as difficult as grocery shopping for you because I’m certain what’s best for you and others like you is to suffer die while I wait for something that’s probably not going to happen.”
To those who think voting or running for office won’t matter, ask yourself why Republicans fight so hard to limit voting and keep people like this candidate out of office?
I do see a lot of justified Lib hate on here, but a lot of the complaints I have seen on Lemmy have the complainer claiming that they do begrudgingly vote for the dems, despite the criticism. I am not a fan of Biden at all, and I think there are tons of better candidates for the job, but I will still vote for him when I am forced to choose between that and Trump.
Just because people criticize the Dems, doesn’t mean that they completely opt out of the voting process.
Those who begrudgingly vote and work to solve problems outside elections the rest of the year are making the wise choice.
I’m not really speaking to those who vote I’m speaking to those who think forfeiting their vote and expecting revolution any day now. Those unwilling to cast a vote in an attempt to protect the vulnerable because they feel entitled to use other’s lives to further their goals.
I’m speaking to tankies, ideological puritans that saw the U.S. kool-aid and were not fooled, but then turned around and drank kool-aid from autocrats pretending to be communists.
The single best example in living history of voting working gave us 4 years of relatively peaceful Biden as opposed to another 4 years of a seditious traitor rapist.
What do you mean by voting working? Do you think voting is useless because your candidates didn’t win? Are you upset Bernie didn’t win and now want to throw out the whole system? Voting works (to some degree, it’s not going to save the world) but so many people don’t even do it we end up forfeiting the game to the right, they vote, that’s why things are going their way. Lots of people died to give you a choice, and you want to give it up thus ensuring you lose?
You must be young if you think Biden’s term is the only “relative peace” we’ve had in living memory. I’m nearly 50, until 2015 during Trump’s campaign there was no threat of fascism in the U.S. after WWII. There were definitely problems, climate change on the horizon but there was some hope. The world was fucked up, but it didn’t make you want to cry every day. LGBT people were gaining rights, too slowly, but it was happening. Now as a trans person I’m worried I’m on a kill list. Things got worse because we lost elections.
Tell me what methods you have to attempt to make things better under a dictator (you don’t think the dictator is going to always or even mostly do what you want do you? What if you’re brown and the dictator wants brown people dead?). If we don’t vote, what do you propose? How do we do it? Who is going to start the revolution? Are you? Even if we win this revolution, what happens after? How do we prevent some dictator from taking over? Seems like every other revolution ended up with the most successful military leaders assuming power and then proceeding to make stupid decisions that wipe out populations, crops, and bird species etc. only to fail resisting the U.S.
You wouldn’t be able to have this conversation under most autocrats without risk of sending your family to decade of hard labor.
Or are you simply a victim of propaganda and think America bad China/Russia good, a stooge that thinks the two richest men on the planet, Putin and Xi are actuallycommunists and actually have your interests in mind LOL!!!