If we win Florida on election night

[Qutzupalotl]

Trump has no path to victory and he’ll be declared the loser. Here’s a thread on ways to help make that happen.

Link to tweet

Thread about Florida. Trump MUST win Florida, period. No model has him losing Florida and winning 270 electoral votes. None. And if Biden wins Floria by enough for the networks to call it for him election night, Democracy is saved. On Nov. 3! So what can we all do? Read on.

Florida mandates that the counting of absentee ballots start 22 days before the election. They could likely all be tabulated and released to the public within an hour or so of the polls closing at 7 p.m. ET. So how do we help make those Biden votes?

Write letters via Vote Forward. Letter writing works, and it's super easy. Go here to write.
https://votefwd.org/

After you're done writing letters, please give to the Florida Democratic Party! Remember, Obama won Florida twice. Biden can win it November 3. Go here to help with anything you can.
https://floridadems.org/

Again, do not say Biden can't win Florida. Obama won it twice, and the numbers suggest Biden can too. Most critical is to raise support in the Hispanic community. Act Blue is on it. Help them out please. Wake up Nov 4 knowing you did EVERYTHING you can.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/florida-watch-action-1

Also please give to America Votes. You can then send an email (on the site) requesting your donating be earmarked for FLORIDA. I know we're all worried about the days after Nov 3. Imagine taking away any chance of Trump claiming election night victory!
https://americavotes.org/
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Hi Randi! Have you heard about @FLRightsRestore? They are helping ex-felons, who the people of Florida voted to give the vote to, can pay off their court fees so they can vote. This is a huge issue and a great way to increase voter turnout. Please donate!!


Help restore voting rights for Florida’s ex-felons by paying their fines and fees:

“The 11th Circuit’s decision is a blow to democracy and to the hundreds of thousands of returning citizens across Florida who should have an opportunity to participate in this incredibly important election. We will continue to place people over politics. We will not rest until we live up to the promise of Amendment 4 and see every one of the 1.4 million returning citizens who want to be a part of our democracy have the opportunity to do so.

That is why we are encouraging people to step up and defend democracy by supporting our efforts to pay the fines and fees of Florida’s returning citizens through our Fines & Fees program, and allow people with past convictions to become eligible voters despite the obstacles placed before us.”
https://floridarrc.com/

[msongs]

1. paging mike bloomberg nt

[BComplex]

2. True!

[dchill]

17. Keep your thumb on that button...

But if you're like me, you never really believed Mike Bloomberg anyway.

[mdelaguna]

23. Yes!

[BComplex]

3. I don't see anything that tells the total $$ we're trying to raise.

What's it going to cost?

[Thekaspervote]

8. If you click on the links provided it will give you some figures. They have already paid $3,200,000+

In fines and fees

[Squinch]

4. Thank you. These are good suggestions.

[anamnua]

5. I disagree about Florida being a must win.

If Gore had won his home state (Tennessee) he would have been president. All Biden has to do is take back the three rust belt states (Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania) that Hillary lost by a whisker in 2016..

[Thekaspervote]

7. That's right! We don't need FL, but if we would happen to win FL the cake is baked!!

[Qutzupalotl]

9. ...and on election night, sparing us a nightmare scenario!

Thank you for donating!

[VOX]

15. If Gore had won New Hampshire he'd have been president.

Too many Nader voters in that state.

[Thekaspervote]

6. Just donated.. they have almost 350k already!

[Sneederbunk]

10. Puerto Ricans in Florida await.

[Poiuyt]

11. Right now, most analysts and prognosticators have Biden with a slight lead over trump.

[Merlot]

12. In 2016 I was planning to go out to an election watching party.

I decided to stay home until Florida was called just be safe. Watching the returns I was getting a really ominous feeling.

Needless to say, I didn't go out that night.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Do states actually compare registrations against felon lists?

What if you have a common name? One of you is a felon, the other is not? If you are the not felon, is your registration and ability to vote in question?

Conversely, what if you, the convicted felon who has been released from prison, relocate to another state? Get a job, a driver's license, establish a new life. Register to vote. Will that new state figure out you're a felon not entitled to vote?

I have long wondered about these things. I've never been a felon, so I personally have not come up against these things, but I honestly wonder just what each state checks against.

One huge, huge issue is common names. I happen to have a totally unique name. I am the only "Poindexter Oglethorpe" out there. That is not my actual name, as I'm sure you've figured out, but my actual real life name is unique, in that I'm the only one with it. But a lot of names are remarkably common. I've learned that trying to look up former friends or classmates. Gosh. Who would have thought there are so many with that name?

While I do care about former felons being able to vote, I also wonder how many non former felons who have the same, or even a similar name, have been disenfranchised.

We need a better system.

[dpibel]

16. Precisely the issue with Florida 2000

Katherine Harris disenfranchised thousands of Floridians based on a list purge that failed to account for mismatched names.

IOW, the Republicans have been doing this for, now, two decades.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. I recall that.

Some of the matches (Maria Jamison being the same as Marilyn Johnson, to make up an example) were funny, except that the disenfranchisement was not at all amusing.

I do believe some of the matches were a bit closer, as in a Maria Gonzales dob 4-19-63 deemed to be the same as Maria Gonzales dob 5-23-87.

I am real familiar with the problem of same names. I used to work the information desk at the only (at the time) hospital in my city of Santa Fe, NM. This is a VERY Hispanic state. Which I truly love. However, there are apparently only about 17 surnames and perhaps 35 first names in use. I exaggerate not as much as you might think. People would come up to me, and ask for the room number of their friend, Jose Gonzales. More than once I had two people with that name. Usually their ages (which I had on the screen in front of me) were at least a decade apart, so I could ask, "About how old is your friend?" and figure out which room to send them to.

One time I had two men with the same first and last name, which I'll say here was Pablo Martinez. The two men were only two years apart in age. I know that most friends don't know the exact age of their friends, so during that period of time I didn't even bother to try to pin down which Pablo Martinez they wanted. I wrote down both room numbers and said, "If your friend isn't in the first room, go to the second one." I was technically in violation of HIPPA, but there was no good way around it.

[Blue Owl]

14. K&R

[oasis]

18. Get to work Florida Dems.

[radius777]

20. Winning Florida is important to prevent the 'red mirage'.

FL is one of the few (iirc) swing states where the results will fully be in by election night.

We don't need to win it to win the election as long as we win the Hillary states and retake WI/MI/PA - but winning FL would be a knockout punch that would (imo) tell us who is the next president. The margin there also would tell us alot - if Biden loses it narrowly also is a good sign. A decisive Trump win there would be (imo) a bad sign.

[Sogo]

21. I thought I read that some celebrity was helping with

the ex-felon fees in FL....like LeBron maybe?

[Sogo]

22. Yes, it is LeBron:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/25/politics/lebron-james-florida-voting-rights-felons/index.html

[BComplex]

24. Too bad they couldn't come up with more than $100,000. But it's a good start.

I hope we can turn Florida blue!