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Statistics show that voter turnout is significantly lower for midterm elections than presidential ones, which impacts the overall election results. Only 37% of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterm elections; the lowest voter turnout since WWII.

— Emma Bracy, How To Vote in the Upcoming Midterm Elections: A Primer

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I heard once that the act of repetition makes something true.

— Emma Bracy, If You Want to Be a Good Friend You May Want to Do This One Thing

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For Nicolas, 23, Friends makes everything feel okay — even when it’s clearly not. This is not about a feeling of relatability ('It’s not relatable,' he says), nor about it being good TV ('It’s not as good as Seinfeld or Frasier') but about the fact that Friends unites people.

— Emma Bracy, Why did Netflix spend a literal fortune to save the show 'Friends'?

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For me, holiday celebrations are never as fulfilling as the promise of holiday cheer suggests. So I made a choice: Instead of investing in complicated dynamics and being reminded of unresolved shit, I stayed in Alabama, 1,000 miles away from my real home and closest blood relative.

— Emma Bracy, The Holidays Are an Excellent Time to Do Whatever You Want

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I like to imagine that this person is truly invested in thinking through the ways humans and technology interact. That they’ve read Audre Lorde, believe a relationship is sharing deeply any pursuit with another person, and have purposefully created a boundary between their Instagram persona and their personal life to uphold that definition.

— Emma Bracy, What Does it Mean to be "Instagram Official"? An Investigation

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I believe survivors. Those who can and do come forward, and those who cannot or do not choose to. I stand behind Anita Hill, Christine Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick and all of those whose names I do not know. And I’m eager for this conversation, and the action it inspires, to broaden and deepen in every direction.

— Emma Bracy, What Comes After Believing Christine Blasey Ford

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In our culture, the act of celebrating is very tied to specific reasons for celebration — birthdays, graduations, marriages and the like. There are certain markers that are universally understood: We eat cake. We dance. We break piñatas. 'But shame-eating a cake in your crib because you’re stressed and lonely is different than eating cake with your best friends because someone had a baby,' Sarah says. 'In that sense, celebration is an energy, an awareness, it is possible at all times and is present wherever there is a human spirit.'

— Emma Bracy, How to Celebrate When Everything Feels Bad

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I got into elfing — I use it as a verb — because I’m an actress. I was doing a little show and my director who also works as a Santa Claus would come to rehearsal after a full day of sitting, they call it, as Santa, and he would bring gifts and letters that he got from kids and tell us hilarious stories. I just thought it sounded like a really funny, weird thing to do around the holidays. Turns out: It is. It’s so hilarious being an elf.

— Emma Bracy, What It's Like to Be a Professional Elf (and Other Holiday Employments)

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We’re actors. If we didn’t exist, how would people know who to vote for?

— Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), 30 Rock, Season 3: Reunion

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Thanks for voting, come again but not today because that would be illegal, come again next time we elect things.

— Mandy Baxter (Molly Ephraim), Last Man Standing, Season 4: School Merger

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You can only vote within your race or your group. Just pretend it's the 1950s. It makes it easier to understand.

— Nicole 'Nicky' Nichols (Natasha Lyonne), Orange Is the New Black, Season 1: WAC Pack

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A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.

— Frederick Douglass, via en.wikiquote.org

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The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

— James K. Polk, Diary entry

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Take abortion away
And we'll dodge it just the same
So I'm not sure why I vote
Cause I just don't know what difference it makes
It seems to me we get the same shit from them both

— Kevin Devine, No Time Flat (Split The Country, Split The Street)

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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

— Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt: What I've Learned

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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

— Buckminster Fuller, QUOTABLE BUCKMINSTER FULLER: An A to Z Glossary of Quotes from Buckminster Fuller

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Politicians are so afraid of losing power that some are doing anything they can to diminish the rights of people who threaten their power...meaning voters. Meaning constituents. Meaning the people who put them in power in the first place.

— Amanda Mitchell, Why You Need to Check You're Registered To Vote, Like Actually

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The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

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[his last words] I'm a retired investor living on a pension. I came home to vote in the presidential election because they wouldn't give me an absentee ballot. [Seconds later, Rocco walks up to Roth and shoots him in the stomach, killing him]

— Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg), The Godfather: Part II

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Serena: I can't believe Blair won.

Dan: Yeah, who voted for her?

Chuck: Me. About 150 times.

— Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), Gossip Girl, Season 2: Valley Girls

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Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

— Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State & the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution

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Whenever this administration has gone to the left I have voted for it, and whenever it has gone to the right I have voted against it.

— Huey Long, Huey Long on the new deal.

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I'm going to continue to demonstrate that everyone in every state is important to the future of this country. And no one can be written off or taken for granted based on where they live or how they voted in the past, or whether they voted at all.

— Beto O'Rourke, Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke discusses run for president, why he’s the one to battle Trump on border

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Love and voting are the only two things that will solve this.

— David Hogg, via twitter.com

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What do Chinese men do when they have an erection?
They go voting.

— theswarthyknight, What do Chinese men do when they have an erection?

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