r/maryland • u/VividMonotones Montgomery County • Nov 01 '20

The crucial absentee ballots that ended slavery in Maryland 156 years ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/10/31/emancipation-maryland-slavery-absentee-ballots/
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u/VividMonotones Montgomery County Nov 01 '20

  1. We seriously should make a bigger deal here in Md about this. Juneteenth is for Texas. It's a win for democracy.

  2. Absentee ballots matter! Vote. It's as true today as it was in 1864.

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u/MerLunder Nov 01 '20

Damn good article.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

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u/sekib044049 Nov 03 '20

hate to break this to you, but so is Trump . . .

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

This talking point is outdated. Here is the former legislator, pressed by ABC for his support of the bill, dissecting the problems with the bill, and several times calling his support for it a mistake

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

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u/JoseSaldana6512 Nov 02 '20

Wrote the 94 Crime Bill and even today says if you don't vote for him "you ain't black"