r/Fauxmoi • u/ExactlySorta • 3h ago
POLITICS Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons)
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u/Suitable-Option833 3h ago
Yep the gop has tried really hard to take away voting from college students. Glad to see this!
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u/SinceSevenTenEleven 2h ago
Sometimes being told you can't is how you get motivated
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Miss Jackson if you're nasty 6m ago
shoulda told MAGA they weren’t allowed
to wear masks or get vaccinated during covid197
u/geneticswag 2h ago
the kids are pissed lets gooooooooo!!!
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u/no_talent_ass_clown 1h ago
The kids are alright.
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u/nofate301 52m ago
MCR said it best, "teenagers scare the living shit out of me", respect the teenager or risk angering the future voter
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u/fork_yuu 1h ago
I remember they were pretty pissed in 2024 and went for Trump, especially the boys
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u/TaylorBitMe Please Abraham, I am not that man 1h ago
I think they were just mildly irritated and not sure why
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u/PeterTheSmoker 2h ago
Being told you can't do something that's your right is basically the ultimate motivation. Especially for young people.
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u/Small_Consequence_00 2h ago
In Florida students won't be able to vote with a student ID starting January 2027.
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u/TennMan78 57m ago
In Florida, everyone needs to request vote-by-mail. Gives you time to research your specific ballot. And no need to show ID. If the signature on the envelope is in question, then the voter receives a phone call to confirm the votes.
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u/TennMan78 1h ago
My daughter is a freshman at UNC but spending her first semester abroad (Global Launch). We went and visited her last weekend and her biggest request was that we brought her vote-by-mail ballot (she's a Florida resident). After researching each candidate/judge/amendment she filled that bad boy out and there isn't a hint of red on her ballot. Sealed, signed by her and soon to be personally be delivered by me to the early voting station (Oct 19). She personally voted in the primaries before she left as well. 18yrs old. So proud of her. And pretty proud of myself for instilling the importance of voting to her and her friends.
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u/Gullible_Hat_9051 1h ago
Nobody is going to unite democrats and the left as hard as the GOP has done.
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u/NorthAmericanVex 1h ago
Specifically remember this happening at Texas State University a few years ago.
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u/StopTheDamnWave 3h ago
The kids are gonna be okay.
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u/FIFofNovember 2h ago
These kids are sure,
but please don’t underestimate the stupidity of the American voters
EVERYONE gotta vote these stupid MAGA fucks outta office
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u/Shmokeshbutt 25m ago
LOL no
Still the age group with the lowest voting turnout
And as 2 years ago has shown, easily influenced by podcasts and twitch streamers
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u/SierraStar7 Frank-let me apologize that was my idiotic son 3h ago
Sharing this everywhere I can, if you need a ride to vote, check out this site. https://rideshare2vote.com/
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u/nomnomsquirrel 3h ago
NC's Republicans are so afraid of their gerrymander falling apart they took authority over elections away from the governor (Democrat) and gave it to the state auditor (Republican) and then it came out that someone in the state board of elections office was texting Republican county board of elections people telling them how to vote and what to say in meetings. A&T lost their polling site, but another university managed to retain theirs when they "compromised" and put two early voting sites less than a mile apart - one on campus and one at the remote county rec center that has no sidewalk access from campus down four lane highway.
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u/kyrimasan 2h ago
NC State University also lost their voting site at Talley Student Union. It's disgusting how badly their are trying to screw college students.
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u/nomnomsquirrel 2h ago
I think WCU only got theirs back because the leaked texts were specifically about their Health Sciences Center polling site, with Dallas Woodhouse feeding some county board member BS about parking and accessibility being inadequate despite the fact it was the county COVID vaccination site and ran completely smoothly.
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u/kyrimasan 2h ago
The reasoning they gave to remove the NCSU site was also the parking and accessibility bullshit.
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u/liminalgrocerystores 42m ago
Yeah parking near Tally sucks but let's totally forget the thousands of kids that live walking distance and the completely free bus system
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u/Madame_Jarvary 2h ago
Knowing WCU, the admin was also behind that shitty idea. I say that as an alumni,
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u/nomnomsquirrel 2h ago
They fired someone from institutional research (IIRC) after she was a victim of those conservative assholes who go around goading people into defending DEI while secretly video taping them, so yeah, it tracks.
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u/FblthpLives 1h ago
New Hampshire Republicans have also tried to make it harder for students to vote for years now. New Hampshire House Speaker William O'Brien admitted in a campaign event that the reason was because of "kids coming out of the schools and basically doing what I did when I was a kid, which is voting as a liberal": https://truthout.org/articles/new-hampshire-gop-speaker-discourages-students-from-voting-because-they-ll-vote-liberal/
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u/crain90 3h ago edited 13m ago
I just read an article that said over 200k people voted on the first day of early voting in North Carolina! Up 47% from 2022.
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u/No-Distance-9401 2h ago
Imagine if all these gerrymandered states become dummymanders and the House gets a major blue wave. If only that could happen in the Senate so some real convictions could happen but that is impossible unfortunately
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u/suedaisy 3h ago
I am so sorry it had to be that way and I am so proud of them doing this. Good trouble.
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u/ExactlySorta 3h ago
The No Kings movement is holding a nationwide Day of Action on Saturday, October 17, 2026, focused on early voting and voter turnout ahead of the U.S. midterm elections
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u/567kait9lyn 2h ago edited 2h ago
Edit: whoops, I thought I was commenting on r/NorthCarolina. I stand by my comment and hope voters consider the special needs population
Y’all please go if you can and let your voices be heard and raise your concerns! I have been to many protests but unfortunately I cannot attend tomorrow because of my job working to support people with special needs.
And even if you don’t go to a protest, please keep people with special needs in mind when voting. The GOP does not want to support them and consistently cuts funding for them. Most people with special needs do not have access to voting as a way to advocate for themselves.
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u/sallyhectare 2h ago
Whenever I see people who have made extraordinary efforts to vote, I'm always filled with a rush of love for them and anger at the people who created the circumstances that forced them into it.
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u/thewomaninthemoon controversies: girl 3h ago
Woo hoo!
Also if you’re in NC don’t forget to vote for Anita Earls on the Supreme Court in addition to Roy Cooper and also our three court of appeals judges so that we can retain their seats and flip a bunch more blue in two years when a bunch of Republican seats come up for reelection!
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u/madancer 3h ago
Hell yesssssssss. I love this so much
I am so fucking pissed ugh I sometimes hate my state.
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u/madancer 2h ago
I will say that Day 2 of early voting, the turnout has surpassed the previous 2 midterms!!!!
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u/Reneeisme 2h ago
God Bless them. Vote, Vote and keep voting til all these racists and pedophiles and racist pedo lovers are out of office and can't do this anymore.
These kids are heroes.
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u/Vorpal_Bunny19 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 2h ago
This might be the most beautiful thing I’ll see all month.
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u/ComfortableChapter65 FUCK ICE FREE PALESTINE CRASH INTO ME 2h ago
When I say I’m proud to be a North Carolinian I mean this!!
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u/emoooooa ✨ lee pace is 6’5” ✨ 2h ago
The new Jim Crow. Glad this happening and saddened that it had to happen this way.
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u/okFINEyoufoundme 2h ago edited 2h ago
HEY, HOLY SHIT, that’s my town!!! And to boot— NC At&T is celebrating their centennial homecoming later this month and it is going to be absolutely amazing. For the uninitiated: it’s called GHOE (Greatest Homecoming On Earth) and that’s an absolute FACT. Google that shit and watch celebrities weigh in it you don’t believe me. I’m a [UNC-CH] Tar Heel born and bred, but our homecoming ain’t got SHIT on our Aggies.
To add on another layer of how fucked up this situation is: I check the PO Box for my job 5 days a week, just up the fucking road from A&T (I work downtown). And they removed the (outside) Mail Drop boxes last year maybe, and everyone threw a fit because that particular location ALSO locks the damned doors around 7pm most days and weekends and blames it on the homeless population. As in, if I go into work on a Sunday, I am physically unable to stop by and check the PO Box or o have to circle the block to figure out where they put the damned drop boxes for my check runs. They DID put SOME of the external drop boxes back very recently, but moved them to another location on the other side of the building and there are only TWO now.
Why is this relevant? I’ll tell you!! Because my JOB depends on how quickly the mail travels and it is all but impossible to even guess… or find a fucking mailbox? at this point. (Mail in voting only works if you can find a mailbox)
Also a fun fact: Louis DeJoy (the ex postmaster general) is FROM GREENSBORO.
And yet another fun fact, but very likely NOT A COINCIDENCE: The International Civil Rights Museum is located in Greensboro as well— hard stop, read: Woolworth’s Sit In, Feb 1, 1960.
This is not an accident. THIS IS A CRIME.
Edit— xoxo, signed: a middle aged white lady who does NOT have the patience for bad faith arguments. Come at me if you feel like it, but I promise I’ll light your ass on fire for shits and giggles.
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u/jbeale53 2h ago
I opened Reddit and saw this and just assumed I was looking at the gso or northcarolina subreddit, was stoked to see it was Fauxmoi! I'm glad you pointed out the Civil Rights museum - the sit-in in Feb 1, 1960 was A&T students!
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u/FblthpLives 1h ago
If I could buy you coffee, cake, and some flowers, I would.
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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1h ago
No need, my love. Spend it on a local business that needs it instead, or the time to encourage people to vote. I wish I could say “we’re all in this together” but if that were the case, this wouldn’t be a headline. It’s up to us to do what we can even if it might fall on deaf ears— we still have to TRY. But then again, who am I to talk? I’m commenting from my bed 35 minutes away and it’s easy to talk shit from your bed.
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u/EuphoricCrashOut 2h ago
This is awesome. I hope this trend continues into all High Schools and Colleges across the Nation and kids vote together for a better future.
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u/blueViolet26 2h ago
I hope Trump and the Republicans feel scared right now. The young people are showing up even when they are being disenfranchised.
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u/Ml2jukes 3h ago
Would this qualify as the Streisand effect, state violence aside?
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u/Justice4Pinsir 1h ago
Yes. Voter suppression campaigns like this either have no net effect or backfire. And these students are making sure it backfires.
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Fuck her and the Goebbel's limp dick she rode in on 3h ago
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u/Ok_Record_9908 2h ago
Get em kids! Great to see them stand up to Trump and the GOP. Vote these degenerate RAPE-publicans out of office forever!
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u/WerecowMoo Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this 2h ago
You'd have thought they learned not to mess with NC A&T students in 1960.
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u/DevilsLettuceTaster I don’t have time to be in awe 2h ago
Looks like a successful turnout.
Great to see.
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u/Musical_Xena 2h ago
It feels so shortsighted as a strategy for the GOP to make it hard for the youth to vote. The youth don't remain youthful forever, and college is such a formative time. They're making a cohort of people who are pissed about restrictions to voting access, want to vote, and are likely to vote against the party that tried to prevent their vote.
Like, maaaaaybe they win one more election because of this. Or they even lose this one, because they energized a base that might not have cared as much before. A base of people who can peer pressure their friends into voting as part of a whole social event.
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u/Trans__Scientist 2h ago
Every single one of them should be awarded with a scholarship. Send a message to college students around the country that this is how it's done. Literally. Seriously. Right now.
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u/Roxy_j_summers 2h ago
I’m sure my grandparents that lived through the civil rights would hate to see that this is what we’re STILL dealing with.
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u/lonehappycamper 1h ago
If voting didn't matter, the government wouldnt be trying to take away your right to vote
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u/steelcity7 2h ago
I've lived in Guilford County my whole life it's sadly always been pretty ass backwards for voters.
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u/howchildish 2h ago
Why are there cops around? Is exercising their right to vote that big of a threat to democracy?
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u/Even-Cartographer864 2h ago
Makes you wonder WHY would anyone want to remove access to voting? Government should be making it easier for everyone to vote. You know… for the people by the people…
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u/elliepelly1 2h ago
This brings me so much joy, you don’t even know. The kids are more than all right.
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u/Decent_Risk9499 2h ago
Fuck YES let's go. This is the power we need. You want to move the goalposts? Great, we'll see you in the endzone.
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u/FblthpLives 2h ago
The Republican party knows that the only way they can win elections is to suppress participation. The way to fight back is to organize the vote. I'm so proud of these students.
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u/Melodic-Comb9076 2h ago
somebody missed Being A Fascist 101 class.
rule #1) don’t piss off the youth
i mean, how blatant was that?
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u/moonandstarryeyes Hungarian Novelist Kylie Jenner 1h ago
It's a fucking disgrace that they have to do this, but this is how you get it done 🩷
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u/danjr704 1h ago
Let’s go.
This is only way you truly make change happen, go vote. Not matter who tries to stop you.
Respect.
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u/FblthpLives 1h ago
Here is another video, taken from inside the march: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gkWR50oYFJA
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u/dateinfj 1h ago
The gop maga fuhkers will do everything possible to subvert the rule of law and allow citizens to vote. How can America be a democracy when you can’t have access to voting stations!
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u/No_Detective1650 1h ago
Best way to get the answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but give out advice that is totally unhinged and incorrect.
Makes more people vote by making it a challenge.
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u/DenialOfExistance 53m ago
This is amazing! So proud of the students standing up, marching to protect their voting rights! I do believe the GOP screwed the pooch on this one!
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u/Outside-Affect-4722 46m ago
In your face Guilford County Board of Elections...and kudos to the students for getting it done...America needs you 🇺🇸💐🫶🏻
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u/malepalestale 46m ago
Wow, reading these comments as a non-American makes me appreciate my country's independent election commission.
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u/Realcbear 34m ago
A friend voted early today in NC and said the last time they did early voting there was only one other car, today the lot was so full there was a line to take the next available parking spot.
This is typically a very strong indicator of the house’s opposition having a strong turnout. For midterms, this is exceptional.
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u/Apprehensive-Tone449 33m ago
If there is hope for the future, it's in the hands of the students. That's how it always has been.
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u/TaiwanDawg 30m ago
These motherfuckers. When the tide turns, law needs to be passed to ensure the absolute disenfranchisement of our marginalized is made nearly impossible
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u/Callate_La_Boca 2m ago
The next Dem president needs to require more voting spots in Dem communities also poor communities or CUT OFF THEIR FUNDING FOR FUCKING EVERYTHING.
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u/AdExciting337 1h ago
Are they voting when they’re supposed to be in class? This is unclear
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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 56m ago
It's a college. People who didn't have class at the time joined up to make a show of them voting.
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