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Happy Election Day, Tumblr!

If you’ve already mailed in your absentee ballot or participated in early voting, give yourself a pat on the back followed by a healthy round of applause. You did it, constituents! You knew your voice was important and you made damn sure that it was heard.

For the majority of you, today is your time to shine. These midterm elections are important because you get to vote at the local level. You get to have a say in what matters the most to the communities in which you live, work, and spend much of your time and money.

Today is your chance to protect what you love and fight for what you believe in.

Make sure you’re prepared before you leave your home to vote:

  • Make sure you have any necessary paperwork
    If you live in New York or California, you can just state your name and address to cast your ballot. Neat! Other states have different requirements, like you may need to present a photo ID. You can check out the specifics for your state here.

  • Look into when and where to vote
    Some voting polls can open as early as 6 a.m. and close as early as 6 p.m. Others are open until 9 p.m. Checking your polling location and its hours is easy—just head on over to Vote.org’s polling place locator.

  • Know your rights
    It’s important for you to know your rights and what actions you can take if you are denied the opportunity to vote. Voter intimidation is illegal, and you have every right to report any sort of intimidation or harassment you see at the polls. This can affect anyone, but is often used to prevent historically disenfranchised people from being heard.

Voting is a right. Voting is a privilege. Voting is a responsibility. When you vote today, think of the people in your life who weren’t able to vote 60, 80, 100 years ago. Think of how far we’ve come. Think of how far we still have to go. Think of the voiceless who are not able to vote today, but deserve as much help and protection as anyone else. Just think—and vote.

Oh, and join us later tonight for live coverage of the midterms with Yahoo! News. Just hop on Tumblr at 7:30 p.m. ET and you won’t miss a beat.

This is it. See you at the polls, Tumblr.

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If you don’t believe the midterm elections are important, since Trump is still in office:

Remember near the end of Obama’s presidency, when people were complaining that he couldn’t get anything done because congress was standing in his way, blocking his nominees and keeping his goals from turning into legislation?

That’s because in the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans gained control of the Senate, and as a result held both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Obama was still president. But Republicans had congress, and that gave them power.

Imagine if every time Trump wanted to put out a new travel ban, or give ICE more power to go after families, or roll back environmental protections, or protections for trans people against discrimination, he had to face the level of resistance in congress that Obama did. 

Whether a democratic congress would oppose Trump out of principles or simply out of partisanship, they would make life harder for him.

If you are angry about the Trump administration you can take a lot of power away from him by voting Democrat in the midterm elections tomorrow.

hey followers I’m sick af but I’m sure as shit going to drag myself out to vote democrat tomorrow and you all need to, too

Vote because you want to prevent increasing violence, vote to protect people who need to be protected, vote out of sheer unmitigated spite. Whatever your reasons, JUST VOTE.

for those who don’t want to read this,

JUST 

FUCKING

VOTE

TO 

GIVE 

TRUMP

HELL

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Vote, 2018, Libby VanderPloeg

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If you’re in the US, remember to vote today. Yes, the lines are going to be long but do it anyway. I voted this morning and even though there were only four people a head of me it took an hour because the volunteers were so incompetent. However, I still voted because I know my vote makes a difference. Especially in these midterm elections. That’s were change really happens. 

So remember to vote today, let’s try to fix this dumpster fire of a country while we still can.