Tricia Crimmins Tech Posted on Jun 3, 2024 WriteInDC, Washington, D.C.’s pro-Palestine protest campaign, is ramping up its get-out-to-vote efforts ahead of the District’s Democratic primary election tomorrow.
As write-in votes are , WriteInDC is asking voters to post a photo of their ballot on Instagram and tag the campaign’s account. Posting photos of ballots is The campaign was inspired by the , which organized state-specific efforts to vote “uncommitted” or “uninstructed” to protest President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign over his . As D.
C. ballots don’t offer voting options like “uncommitted,” WriteInDC is encouraging voters to write in “Gaza” on their Democratic primary ballots. “We believe ‘Gaza’ is appropriate because it calls direct attention to the ongoing genocide,” the campaign , “and does not allow co-opting by centrist politicians who can twist words like ‘ceasefire’ to mask their sub-par solutions.
” After and garnered national attention, Vice President Kamala Harris called for a in the Israel-Hamas war. In states with “uncommitted” or “uninstructed” ballot options, tallying votes is easy. But in states with write-in options, the entire write-in vote is tallied all together by state board of elections—meaning that a vote for “ ” would fall into the same category as D.
C.’s write-in “Gaza” vote. Protest write-in campaigns have gotten around the obstacle in a few different ways.
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