a little megathread for this seems useful. what’s on your ballot folks? are you going out to vote today or have you already voted? if you haven’t or are interested in what significant elections are taking place today, Bolts Magazine has its yearly cheat sheet.
in my neck of the woods: half of the school board is up–unsurprisingly it’s divided between the cranks who want to “take politics out of schools” (by which they mean queer people) and liberals trying to get the board to not do that. the liberals have historically prevailed since this is the region’s most liberal school board but you can never tell who’s actually going to win day of. we also have a bunch of controversial referendums this year but i’m pretty sure all of them are going to pass.
nationally, i’m tracking about 60 socialists who are up for election or re-election–i’d expect most of them will win their races but this could be an early harbinger of trouble for the left if some of the closer races don’t go socialists’ way. in particular i’m very curious if Israel-Palestine will influence any of them.
You sound like you live near me. Except that one of our SB candidates actually got fired as the school district Superintendent for violently yelling at one of his subordinates over trans policy, and now he has an axe to grind and want to be on the school board to exact his revenge. We’ve got a second candidate who is supported by Moms For Liberty and has zero take on the actual policies except for some fear that trans kids are planning some mass molestation of cis kids if they’re allowed to use the bathroom of their gender selection (ignoring that most trans kids I know would rather never step foot in a public school restroom for any reason if they could). If they both get on it will be a certified shit show.