I voted today... DID YOU?

Voting is in Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania

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Edmonton Catholic school board to vote on 'meaningless' inclusiveness policy, critics say (Canada)

Janet French
Edmonton Journal

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Bipartisan Vote Defeats Anti-Transgender Legislation in Virginia

Ryan White
HRC

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SENATOR VITALE STATEMENT ON OVERRIDE VOTE OF BILL FOR TRANSGENDER NEW JERSEYANS

Trish Graber
PolitickerNJ

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I voted... DID YOU???

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VOTE!!!!!!!!

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This is it.

Vote.

ELECTION DAY IS NOVEMBER 3, 2015.

Vote!

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First to Canada:  Congratulations!  You made the difference by kicking Conservatives to the curb! Yay!

Next, to the US:  Yeah, I know voting can get a bit discouraging at times.  But, please, look at our friends to the north.  They voted, and they won.  I'll be straight with you.  There are no ironclad guarantees in voting.  But it provides you with the only way in which you have a real voice.  Throw your vote away, and you've thrown your voice away.

PS:  Check to see if you have a ballot initiative as well.  Please don't forget these as well as candidates.

Please, no excuses!

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Okay... I know it's a bit early, but I had to tell you.  Seems that there was this guy who was a bit disgusted.  He couldn't stand Hillary or Bernie.  (Never mind that there were three other candidates he could choose from.) So he wouldn't vote.  I tried to reason with the man; I tried to tell him that what the founders intended was a "more perfect" union, not an "absolutely perfect" union.  But he wouldn't budge.  What could I do?  Hey, I disagreed with the guy, but I do respect him.

Now... to my friends:  Please, don't let this dimwitted, shit-for-brains, asshole, dumb as dirt, nitwitted, troglodyte, moron get you down.  Vote anyways.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.

VOTE!

Vote!

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Kinda says it all, doesn't it?

VOTE!

Vote!

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Wow.  No matter how tired a saying may get, how time flies!  If you have not registered yet, geez, the time is now.  If you are able to vote now, don't put it off!  Better early than never!

Vote!

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I want to take you back a few years, to Harper's Weekly, around the year 1867.  See those men in the front cover drawing? They're voting.  Something so simple, yet so sublime.  Just two years earlier, the African-American men and women were nothing.  Less than nothing, really.  They were chattel. Slaves. Three-fifth of a human being, with the master calling the shots.  Slaveowners - and hopeful slaveowners - called them vicious slurs such as niggers and pickaninnies.  For a few brief years though, they called the shots.

A little less than twenty years before, the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, was held in that town.  It took over seventy years until the final nail was put into that shameful past.  

Unfortunately, the South did rise again.  It wasn't until the protests widened and Martin Luther King Jr. began his preaching and marching (to be fair, among many others) that the South truly began to erode.  Amazingly (and so, so sadly) there are pockets that still try to keep African Americans out of the voting booth.

This is freakin' 2015!!!

As a transgender woman, I find it absolutely maddening that there are transgender people who won't vote.

Here's the question - in your life, who will call the shots?

S P R E A D the word!

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If you vote - particularly as a result as a result of Emily's Virtual Rocket - you have my undying thanks.  But this year, let's kick it up a notch.  You probably have a listing of friends  you've made over the last few years on your computer.  What I'm suggesting is really ridiculously simple.  Say something like  "On Tuesday, November 3rd, please remember to vote.  And please remind your friends too."

It's that simple.

You don't have to have to have a thousand "friends"; five or ten real friends will do.  If you're lazy, cut and paste the line above.  This ain't rocket science.  (Besides, that's my line!)

Vote!

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Hartford, CT residents - today is the LAST day to vote in the primaries.  If you don't vote, you don't count.  And if you skip the primaries, forty lashes with a wet noodle!  Mwahahahaha!

All other residents - Register. If you can, vote.  That is all.

It's time! Register! Vote!

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I understand. Many of you are thinking, "Ahh, what's the use? I'm less than a drop in a bucket."  Well... I'll give you a reason.  Better yet, I'll give you eighteen good reasons:

1. Papi Edwards

2. Lamia Beard

3. Ty Underwood

4. Yasmin Vash Payne

5. Taja Gabrielle DeJesus

6. Penny Proud

7. Kristina Grant Infiniti

8. London Chanel

9. Mercedes Williamson

10. Ashton O'Hara

11. Amber Monroe

12. India Clarke

13. K.C. Haggard

14. Shade Schuler

15. Kandis Capri

16. Elisha Walker

17. Tamara Dominguez

18. Keyshia Blige

These women can't speak any more.  They were murdered. And these names are only those that we know about.

Register. Vote. Pick up the fallen flag in your own community.

Episcopalians to vote on allowing gay marriage in churches

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News-Sentinel.com

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Connecticut lawmakers vote to make it easier to change gender on birth certificates

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The Republican

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Anti-LGBT Texas lawmakers set to vote in an attempt to stop marriage equality in the state

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LGBT Weekly

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New Haven pastor: Presbyterian Church vote to allow same-sex marriage a win for equality

Ed Stannard
New Haven Register

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LTE: Thanks for LGBT support

Carlotta Grandstaff

Ravalli Republic

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MHSA to vote on policy for transgender athletes

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Great Falls Tribune

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