A lot of what needs to be done is making sure that the Harris win is large enough that you can’t easily claim that a handful of ballots should be tossed and change the outcome. That means:

  • Check your voter registration — part of the Republican strategy has long been invalidating registrations so people can’t vote
  • Volunteer — nothing in the world quite like talking to people.
  • Donate — money is used for everything from ads to voter turnout operations
  • Organize; be prepared to turn out with others in your community to actively object to any effort to ignore your votes
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    3 months ago

    It means that the election is not settled by a national popular vote, but rather with the result of a weighted average of 50 State elections + Washington, DC.

    You missed an important detail: most states give all their electoral votes to whoever won that state, so for example whoever gets 51% of the votes in Texas gets 100% Texas’s electoral votes. The result is that most states’ electoral votes are easily predicted by post elections, leading presidential candidates to focus on a handful of “swing” states where the outcome of that state’s election is in question. Another result is that it suppresses voter turnout in non-swing states because people their feel like the outcome of their state’s election is predetermined.