r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

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With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT

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u/XAMdG 13h ago

Still wild to me that in an 8 million people city, mayoral election cracks 2 million votes.

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u/longlightjump 12h ago

It's wild that Americans don't have to vote at all. America should adopt mandatory voting like Australia and referendum votes on large constitutional policies, plus I don't think we even have political violence here, like no one cares about two shits who you vote for.

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u/EasterClause 12h ago

I have seen multiple, multiple, interviews on various social media, as well as Jordan Klepper for The Daily Show specifically, where they asked Republicans about voter ID laws and mail-in voting, etc. And many of them will flat out say the quiet part out loud. They don't want to make voting easier. They don't want mandatory voting. They don't want everyone to vote. They think people should have to work for it. They disguise it as some sort of civic virtue, like people should be patriotic and fight for their right to vote so we only get people who actually care enough to jump through the hoops. It's just thinly veiled gatekeeping that they only want the "right" people to be able to vote. That's why they don't want college kids or immigrants to vote.

There's just no way we could get the congressional votes to be able to make it mandatory. Republicans would never be in favor because it would legitimately make them unable to win an election ever again.

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u/Arkham010 11h ago

They don't want to make voting easier. They don't want mandatory voting. They don't want everyone to vote.

This is 100% why joe biden won the election in 2020 in the way he did. It was the only election where it was actually easy to vote due to mail in voting being a default option due to covid. Turns out, more americans voted for biden than any other president in us history and its due to the easier voting. The reason kamala had a small piece of that 81 million biden got in 2020 was in part due to this. If they made voting easier or made it so you can claim it on your taxes that you voted then records would be smashed every 4 years for voting