Uncommitted Votes: Georgia & Washington Voters Demand “Ceasefire Now!”
Georgia & Washington Voters
Demand “Ceasefire Now!”
Voters in Georgia and Washington State added their voices to the growing demand for a Cease-Fire in Gaza and justice for the Palestinian people by voting “uncommitted” and “leave it blank” in the March 12 Democratic primary
.Percent Uncommitted Vote in Democratic Primaries
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Alabama (5.1%) |
Michigan (13%) |
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Colorado (7.3%) |
Minnesota (14.6%) |
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Georgia (3.1%) |
North Carolina (10.5%) |
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Hawaii (29.1%) |
Tennessee (3.3%) |
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Iowa (3.9%) |
Washington (7.5%) |
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Massachusetts (11.2%) |
In Georgia, the “Leave it Blank” campaign included 16 political and community-based groups, including the Peach State Muslim Coalition, New Disabled South Rising, The Movement for Black Lives Action Fund, Council on American-Islamic Relations Action, and Jewish Voice for Peace Action. The Georgia ballot does not allow for an “uncommitted” vote, so the voters turned in blank ballots. In five metro Atlanta counties 4,535 voters (3.1%) submitted blank Democratic primary ballots.*
In Washington State, more than 48,000 Democratic voters cast ballots for “uncommitted delegates”, about 7.4% of the total votes.** Washington’s “uncommitted” coalition includes Palestinian Americans, Jews, Muslims, members of the East African community, labor activists, and others who want an end to the war in Gaza. As one uncommitted voter stated, “We have marched, we have called our representatives, we have confronted them in public, and we have made our views loudly known. Now is not the time to lie down in fear.”***
We are witnessing, as we did with COVID, the open murderous intent of a system that has offered us nothing but war, collapse, climate disaster, pandemics and total ecological destruction. This is the capitalist system in collapse.
“The battle against a U.S. regional war in West Asia will set the stage for the new world that is coming. The line is drawn. It’s either fascism, war, and more global destruction, or it’s abolishing capitalism and its war by taking public control of all the technologies that produce the wealth that is the base of its power.
The clarity and consciousness of revolutionaries globally will shape the new world and a new America!” (https://rally-theleague.org/gaza-war-machine-made-in-usa/)
The uncommitted voters across the US have taken a step toward freedom. It is up to us to continue the “March Towards Freedom”.
Let’s talk.
**Source: https://www.kuow.org/stories/how-did-washingtons-uncommitted-voters-do-on-presidential-primary-night
Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America:
https://lrna.org/lrna-program/
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03/05/2024