Electoral Politics, II

I didn't vote in 2016, because I was unsatisfied with the presidential candidates from the two major parties, and I didn't follow the third-party candidates well enough to make a decision to vote for one of them. I did not regret that decision, but I decided that I needed to link up with like-minded individuals in the electoral arena next time. When I identified the party that spoke to me and my political values, I thought I'd make it official: In 2017, I registered with a political party for the first time ever and joined the Green Party. I first got interested in them after Cynthia McKinney ran for president in 2008. Back then, I was unable to vote because I was living in a temporary location.
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I do plan to vote in November. I just feel like I have another option now. In the general national election, I plan to vote for Howie Hawkins. He is the co-founder of the Green Party, so he embodies the values and the platform. He was the first candidate to run on a Green New Deal, in 2010, and I'm really excited about that as an economic and ecological program. That's critical in this time, I think, because the U.S. withdrew from the Paris agreement under Trump. My polling place is just around the corner, and I have the graveyard shift, so I'm confident that I'll be able to cast my ballot.​

​An excerpt from "10/23/20: The Missing Black Voters Washington Post" (howiehawkins.us)

Campaign yard sings (Credit: "VOTE" by Sean McMenemy)

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). During the COVID shutdown, she petitioned on-foot to help third-party candidates Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker get on the state ballot. Her website is updated at landturn.com.

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