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[NYTimes] The N.B.A. won’t schedule games on Election Day in November in hopes of encouraging voting

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/nba-games-election-day.html

    The N.B.A. won’t schedule games on Election Day in November, in hopes of encouraging voting.
    Aug. 16, 2022, 1:03 p.m. ET
    Victor Mather

    The National Basketball Association said Tuesday that it would not schedule any games on Election Day, Nov. 8, in an effort to encourage fans, players and officials to vote.

    All 30 teams will play the night before the election as part of what the league is calling a “civic engagement night.”

    The plan was first reported by NBC News.

    The league ordinarily treats Election Day like any other on the schedule. There were four games on Election Day in 2018 and six on the day in 2016. The 2020 season had not yet started by Election Day that year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

    “The scheduling decision came out of the N.B.A. family’s focus on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging fans to make a plan to vote during midterm elections,” the league said in a statement.

    N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. players have been particularly active among American professional athletes in social justice causes in recent years, including Black Lives Matter and voting advocacy. They have often had the passive or even active support of the league, far more than their counterparts in the N.F.L. or Major League Baseball.

    More than a dozen N.B.A. arenas were used as voting sites for the 2020 election.

    “We don’t usually change the schedule for an external event,” James Cadogan, the executive director of the N.B.A. Social Justice Coalition, said on MSNBC on Tuesday. “But voting and Election Day are obviously unique and incredibly important to our democracy.”

    The full N.B.A. schedule is to be released Wednesday afternoon.
     
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    good start, it should be a national holiday, no work
     
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    I'LL NEVER WATCH THE NBA AGAIN FOR THIS!!!! DAMN LIBRULS WANTING PEOPLE TO VOTE!? WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE
     
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    Good. Everyone should vote, especially for Democratic candidates. As a Democrat, Os, I'm sure you would agree!
     
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    This is fantastic news. I really hope this starts something and others will follow.
     
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    an increasing number of political philosophers are arguing against ill-informed people voting. Jason Brennan for one

    depends on the candidates. We've had some real moron Democrats in NYS over the years. I've previously posted about Tracy Mitrano and Barbara Lifton on this forum. Both were extremely bad Democratic candidates from Ithaca NY.

    so no, I would not agree.

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    Be part of something BIG. One mission. Run as one. Red rising. A new age. Pursuit. We are red nation. Are you in?
     
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    If a fan would rather forgo their vote than forgo an NBA game, maybe they don't care all that much about the election to start with.

    But I think it's a good thing for companies to give their employees time off to vote, so on that basis this is a good move.
     
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    [Masterpiece Post]
    One dollar in taxes paid should equate to one vote. Vote your shares, just like a corporation. And anyone who receives aid from the government (welfare, Medicaid, stimmy checks) should have a vote removed for each dollar they receive from the government.

    A man's earnings are a measure of the contribution he makes to society. This voting approach ensures that society's contributors (not the leeches) are the ones who shape our representation in government. It also raises the level of political discourse in the country because politicians would no longer be forced to cater to the lowest rung of society for votes. All voters would have skin in the game, creating a powerful effect of spending your own money, not someone else's. Incentives are now aligned.

    GOOD DAY
     
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    With respect to A man's earnings are a measure of the contribution he makes to society, are you saying that someone who works very hard at a menial job to support his family, but makes relatively little money, is less of a societal contributor than someone who makes $100,000+ per year just because he makes less money?
     
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    They should let you vote AT the game, maybe I'd finally go and watch a **** Fertitta basketball game.
     
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    I see you’re wiping your ass with the Constitution again…
     
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    Who gets to determine what is ill-informed? Perhaps the same people in charge of Bidens truth ministry

    Someone or something determining a portion of the population is "ill-informed" and is therefore ineligible to have representation in voting for the government’s use of invasive force against said individuals is an interesting idea.
     
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    I think this is a good start, and I would echo others idea of having it be a national holiday.
     
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    Ding ding ding

    Os is now advocating for a test of some sort to be able to vote? Damn that silly 14th Amendment.
     
  17. Os Trigonum

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    reading is hard
     
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    Can we vote for Ben Simmons and John Wall?
    This just means all the non contributing members will have a whole day off to watch Lightyear
     
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    You can’t vote if you are an illegal immigrant or German Tracy McGrady fan right ?
    You actually have to be an American citizen
     
  20. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Good to know that TJ thinks Kaepernick and Whoopi contribute more to society than he does based on their income.
     
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