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I happily voted for Stein/Ware in New Mexico. First time I've voted since 2016 (when I also voted for Stein).

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I am in California where Stein is on the ballot. I happily voted for her, meaning I voted against barbarism, imperialism, capitalism, militarism, ecological destruction, white supremacy, oligarchy and genocide. Everyone around me is voting lockstep for saintly Kamala against Hitler Trump. Poor deluded souls. I wish I could reach them but they're so well propagandized that they're impervious to reason.

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I live in New York where there is a ballot line for Donald Trump and one for Kamala Harris. There are no ballot lines for any anti-genocide candidate.

Stein does have a certificate of candidacy filed in New York so a write-in vote for her will count. I am going to write in Jill Stein, MD this afternoon.

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"I have no illusions about our electoral system. Yet I still chose to vote for Jill Stein, who isn’t even the most revolutionary candidate on the ballot. How can this be?

'Stop yelling about a democracy we do not have. Democracy is dead in the United States. Yet there is still nothing to replace real democracy. Drop the chains, then, that bind our brains. Drive the money-changers from the seats of the Cabinet and the halls of Congress. Call back some faint spirit of Jefferson and Lincoln,and when again we can hold a fair election on real issues, let’s vote, and not till then. Is this impossible? Then democracy in America is impossible.' - WEB Dubois

What Dubois said in 1956 is still true today. Anyone who thinks the US is a real democracy does not understand how democracy works under capitalism. As Lenin said, 'Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society.' I fully understand my vote will not change anything. But there were several good ballot measures worth voting for that would make mild reforms to improve the condition of the working class in my state, so there was also no reason to abstain from voting as Dubois did. It took less than ten minutes to fill in my ballot."

I can sympathise and, as a non-American, I suggested this in 2016 and it's probably still the best option to abstention/spoilt ballots?

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A commie who loves nazis, wow

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I wrote in Stein/Ware in Iowa where for the first time in recent memory the green party is not on our ballot (I have not investigated why). I have some issues with the GP but they are the best option for me this election because I have made genocide my red line and I wish to see the duopoly fractured, even if it only slightly. Thanks for this piece.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIfBp_NOTHg becasue you deny the reality of what Jill supports like the planet GENOCIDE of FAUCI covd clot shots that killed 6 of my close friends and the Lupon chemical castration drug for children trans agenda and the CIA talking points LIES about Assad Syria & Putin SHAME on you i write in Scott Ritter vote for lying medically ignorant jill in 2026 & 2020 never again

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