Yesterday I Voted For Kamala Harris

I took advantage of early voting in Maryland

For the past few months I wrote postcards through my congregation's participation in UU the Vote. I've also engaged in phone banking and text messaging through the Poor People's Campaign.

Yesterday I took advantage of early voting in the state of Maryland when I went to the nearest polling place in my area and not only voted for Kamala Harris but I also voted straight Democrat down ballot. I even voted to codify the right to access to birth control, abortion, and other forms of reproductive health care into the state constitution. (Also known as Question 1.)

I became especially eager to vote early after an incident that happened over the weekend. Here's some background. Back in 1939 a pro-Nazi rally was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This video has the highlights from that event.

On Sunday Donald Trump gave a rally in that same venue. This Substack has video clips from that rally that drew uncomfortable parallels to that earlier 1939 rally. This clip from MSNBC did its own comparison with that earlier rally.

I think Donald Trump has definitely lost the Latino vote, especially Puerto Ricans, because I heard plenty about this comedian whom I have never heard of before named Tony Hinchcliffe. He became infamous when he made an unfunny joke comparing Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage.

The Lincoln Project came out with this respons featuring outraged Puerto Ricans.

And if you're a longtime fan of Dr. Phil, I suggest finding a new person to idolize because he also spoke at that rally, where he explained why he feels that Donald Trump really isn't a bully, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Here's a response to Dr. Phil's speech.

I'm not surprised that Dr. Phil spoke at that rally since he came out as a Donald Trump supporter just a few months earlier. Since there's a correlation between Donald Trump supporters and Vladimir Putin supporters (after all both Trump and Putin are aligned with each other), I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he's a fan of the latter. Right now I'm trying to find any evidence where Dr. Phil has said anything glowing about the Russian dictator. If I find anything solid, I'll definitely write about it here.

That modern-day Nazi rally was enough to spur me to vote early so I can avoid the crowds at the polling place on Election Day.

I arrived at the polling place in the Lakewood area of College Park, Maryland. The parking lot was small yet was jammed with cars. I managed to find one of the few available spots in the back.

I don't have any pictures of the polling place because we were required to put our cellphones away and we weren't allowed to take pictures. So here is my complete text description of what it was like to go early voting in the state of Maryland.

As I walked towards the entrance I noticed that there was also a special ballot drop box for those who choose to use a mail-in ballot instead of a polling place. There was a Maryland National Park and Planning police car parked next to that drop box. I understood why. There have been reports that someone had attempted to burn a ballot drop box in Washington state and hundreds of ballots were damaged in that fire. On top of it, anti-government mitias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate, training, and promote ballot box stakeouts while parent company Meta isn't doing anything about it and it is even auto-generated their pages. There's no doubt that there are certain individuals who are trying to rig the voting through illegal and destructive means.

While there were plenty of people waiting in line, it wasn't too bad. I basically went to one table where I gave my name and address. Then I went to another table where I was given a blank piece of paper for the electronic voting machines. Then I went to another line where I waited for an empty voting machine. Then I voted. All in all it took about 20 minutes for me to vote. I was given this I Voted/Yo Voté sticker as I walked out.

I only got one sticker so I'm going to save it for November 5 so people won't ask me if I had voted or not because they'll see me wear it.

While the senate and representative ballots only had one Republican and one Democrat, the president ballot had other parties as well. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name was on the ballot even though he had dropped out of the race. The Libertarians had their candidate, Chase Oliver, and while I appreciated them for standing up to Trump by booing him at their convention a few months earlier, I've never been into Libertarian politics. Jill Stein and the Green Party were also on the ballot but, to be blunt, if I was going to vote for a bunch of pro-Putin sycophants, I would be voting for Donald Trump.

This year I was focused on doing what I can to permanently end Donald Trump's political career and bury his MAGA movement once and for all in order to stop the spread of fascism in the United States. I came to the conclusion that voting for Kamala Harris and the other down ballot Democratic candidates was the only thing I can do to achieve this.

I'm still glad that I voted early because I can only imagine what the lines will be like on Election Day. If you're in a position where you have free time this week, I strongly recommend voting now so the lines to the polls won't be so badly crowded for people who are unable to vote until November 5 itself.

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