Useful how-to guide for dissemination

[rydra_wong]

ProPublica: Voting in America Is WILD. Here’s How to Plan Ahead.

ETA: bless them, they've changed "NUTS" to "WILD". As a mentally ill person, I personally don't object to a lot of the colloquial uses of "crazy" etc., but I appreciate that they're trying to be thoughtful and presumably listening to feedback.

Comments

[sathari]

Your posts are excellent!

Thanks so much--- and same to you! (I've also been reading and loving the Watergate information on your journal!)

"Sath, it's Dreamwidth, it's not just Dreamwidth but a political comm on Dreamwidth, surely everyone here already has their state's voter information page bookmarked"

But even if they do -- and I bet there are people who've meant to but haven't got around to it, or haven't managed yet because spoons -- I figure everyone will know other people on- or offline who might not be registered or haven't checked that they are or don't know what ID they do or don't need.

Yes, that was also one of my considerations--- I had actually drafted an apologia along the lines of, "I know everyone here is tech-savvy and politically engaged and probably knows this for themselves, but if you have friends and family in other states this may save you time...."

Not to mention that when I was actually doing the searching, sometimes the actual official state agency pages were buried at least a page down in the search results, which means that, yeah, this information is not in fact necessarily easy to find and takes either search-engine fu or persistence or both. Yet there is still that nasty little mental voice telling me that I am being loud and shouty and braggy and condescending and annoying by talking/writing at length/sharing information about things.... See my icon.

[sporky_rat]

Trying to find voter information for Mississippi is like pulling hen's teeth. Friend of mine who used to be a State Representative and is now a City Mayor keeps an eye on the pages and when it changes he calls Delbert's office manager to make sure he can announce it on Twitter for the city.

He's a good egg.

[sathari]

Your friend sounds awesome!

And that makes me doubly pleased that I was able to find what appear to be not one but two relevant&official links for MS voter information--- if you have a chance to look at the linkspam, let me know if the ones for MS seem legit (since it sounds like you are better informed about that state than I).

[sporky_rat]

He *is* awesome quite often. (Early mornings, eh, but we'll let that one pass. Not everyone can be a cheerful person at six am. I'm not for sure.)

I'll check and make sure!
(It helps that I live here and I'm used to the state that views politics as both how things get done and a form of entertainment.)

[sathari]

:D Yeah, I'm a "Hell is other people at breakfast" sort myself, for that matter.

Thanks so much for checking--- writing up that linkspam was an eye-opener for me in how vastly different the various states are in their internal operations.

(It helps that I live here and I'm used to the state that views politics as both how things get done and a form of entertainment.)

...for some reason this just makes me smile. Then again, I'm the sort of person who spontaneously makes statewide elections linkspam. ;)

[rydra_wong]

(I've also been reading and loving the Watergate information on your journal!)

Delighted you're enjoying! It's such amazing stuff!

Yet there is still that nasty little mental voice telling me that I am being loud and shouty and braggy and condescending and annoying by talking/writing at length/sharing information about things.

I hope you can succeed in stomping that little voice!

[sathari]

Watergate really is amazing. Especially the current parallels.

I hope you can succeed in stomping that little voice!

Thank you! I try to. And, frankly, on DW especially I should know that the community norm does skew toward something like "share your knowledge and those that already have it can scroll past and will probably not be ~annoyed~ that you shared".