The last day to register to vote in the Nov. 8 midterm election is three weeks away. Chicanos Por La Causa, Mi Familia Vota and other groups working to register voters capitalized on National Voter Registration Day to continue their push.
“We know that people are procrastinating,” Joseph Garcia, executive director of Chicanos Por La Causa Action Fund, said Tuesday at an event at the Arizona Capitol. The voter-registration deadline in Arizona is Oct. 11, and these groups are trying to spread their message: “Your vote, your voice.”
Garcia called registering to vote “a love letter to the people you love.”
“If you don’t do anything else today, you need to register to vote and make sure someone else is registered to vote,” he said. “That is a love letter in itself: to democracy, to our future, to our community, to our state, to our neighbors, to our co-workers, to our children, the list goes on. … Our democracy depends on participation, and it begins at the ballot box.”
Advocacy groups work year-round to register voters and motivate them to go to the polls, but on National Voter Registration Day, they focus on “voter education, registration and expand the (electorate) through citizenship workshops,” said Carolina Rodriguez-Greer, state director for Mi Familia Vota.
Other groups, including Fresh Start Women’s Foundation, the Phoenix Indian Center and Glendale Community College’s Student Leadership Center, held events around the Phoenix area.
“There’s so much riding on this election; we have a lot to win or lose in this election,” said Lydia Guzman, director of advocacy and civic engagement for Chicanos Por La Causa.
Arizona voters can register or update their voter information at servicearizona.com. As of the August primary, there were 4,156,067 registered voters in Arizona, according to the secretary of state.
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The parties funding these voter registrations could be helping defeat Democrats in November. Many Latinos see the invasion of uneducated, untrained illegals as serious competitors for work in Arizona and elsewhere in America. Behind it all this illegal invasion is the old Cloward and Piven plan to overwhelm our welfare programs creating a deadly and destructive future for America. We must defeat all Democrats in the upcoming election and take back both houses of congress. That will slow up the Biden – Obama destruction of America until we can elect a MAGA president in 2024.
This is another fine article by the brainwashed useful idiots of Cronkite News which is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Yes, this article is correct; democracy depends on participation. What they leave out is that voters need to be smart enough to make informed decisions. Unfortunately there is no shortage of stupid voters.
Let’s take Venezuela as an extreme example. Venezuela was once a relatively prosperous South American democracy. Then the voters succumbed to the siren call of socialism and elected Hugo Chavez as president. That ended democracy in Venezuela as Chavez consolidated power and took over the government. In spite of having huge oil reserves, Venezuela descended into poverty and hyperinflation. It is now an impoverished police state thanks to the voters who elected Hugo Chavez in 1998.
The consequences of stupid voters making poor decisions at the ballot box should not be downplayed. In California the voters, through the initiative process, approved Prop 47, the disingenuously named “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” This proposition reduced property theft crimes involving less than $950 to a misdemeanor. Of course, this was a gift to criminals who promptly took advantage of it. Retail theft involving less than $950 including organized retail theft rings has increased dramatically under this new law. Who would have thought that this would happen? Stupid voters make stupid decisions.
Democracy depends on clean, honest elections and the Democrats destroyed election integrity circa 2004 when Christine Gregoire stole the election from Dino Rossi in Washington State.
FACT: Rossi was declared the winner in the initial count of votes.
FACT: Rossi was declared the winner in the automatic recount
FACT: Gregoire was declared the winner BY 129 VOTES AFTER A HAND RECOUNT and the usual oooh, oooh, look we found some ballots in a closet and SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, the Democrat successfully steal the election at the last minute.
And these clowns say that Republicans are a “threat to Democracy”. What filth.
FACT: Democrats don’t win elections, they lie and cheat and “find ballots” until they successfully steal the election.
Speaking of Washington State, the Democrat Clowns in the State Legislature passed a bill that was signed by the Total Clown Governor Jay Inslee stating that police can no longer chase criminals. You read that right, law enforcement can no longer chase criminals. I’m not sure what they called the law, but probably something like the CRIME REDUCTION ACT.
So guess what? Now the criminals are sure to stick close to their vehicles or a motor cycle or an e-bike, commit their crime and run immediately. When they see the police, they immediately get in their vehicles and bolt. The predictable result? AN INCREASE IN CRIME AND INNOCENT PEOPLE HARMED, MAIMED OR KILLED.
FACT: Democrats love criminals.
FACT: Democrats want higher crime to justify gun confiscation. I know that’s contradictory to someone with an ounce of common sense, but that’s Democrats for you
FACT: Democrats want higher crime to justify a surveillance state just like the CCP.
Democrats want to be just like the CCP or maybe Conan The Barbarian.
WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE DEMOCRAT?
To steal taxpayer money and hire someone to crush my enemies, to see them driven before me and to hear the lamentations of their, uh, uh, I’m not a biologist.
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