Once you lose the right to vote, you are on track to lose all your other rights too. Suddenly you'll find out the trade was not worth it, albeit it'd be too late.
Never surrender voting rights for any reason. No vote == no voice in government.
Never surrender voting rights for any reason. No vote == no voice in government.
- Donating to a candidate
- Volunteering to help a candidate's campaign
- Running for office
- Working for a government agency
- Writing about politics in blog, news publication, or scholarly journal.
- Writing and circulating petitions
- Protesting
- Flyering for a cause
- Creating tech that supports a political cause
- Calling and emailing candidates and politicians about an issue
I think many people see this list and the first reaction will be "how will this enact change?" because many of us see that these actions are oftentimes ineffective against very well funded political machines and an increasingly jaded public. I basically don't look at political flyers and thanks to ad blockers I saw almost zero ads this past election cycle. But I did see lawn signs in Atlanta's record-setting congressional race this year.