michigan is holding around 15% uncommitted (20ish% reporting at time of this post (edited i read the wrong number)). this is truly unprecedented. people are going to an uncontested primary to tell biden to fuck off. this is actual political action!! this is how we get genocide joe to change direction. show him your disdain at the primaries.
i’m unsure if there are any other states you can do this in (preliminary search didn’t show much and i know some states are not even doing dem primaries) but if you know anything please add it! it is so important we need to scare them!!!
Blank ballots and ballots with anything written in will not being counted. This is why some folks are organizing for folks to protest vote for Marianne Williamson, a Jewish progressive who has been calling for ceasefire
The Pro-peace community is mobilizing to withhold support for President Joe Biden during the Virginia primary.
The state party's co-directors encouraged Democrats to "use their voice at the ballot box to send a clear message to President Biden that he
As the death toll from Israel's war on the Gaza Strip hit at least 32,623 on Friday, the New York Working Families Party endorsed the "Leave It Blank" campaign, which encourages Democratic voters to cast a blank ballot in the state presidential primary next Tuesday to increase pressure on U.S. President Joe Biden to end the bloodshed.
Since January, when New Hampshire residents critical of U.S. complicity in Israel's genocidal assault wrote "cease-fire" on their Democratic ballots, voters across the country have used the primary process to stage similar protests. In Michigan, home to many Muslims and Arab Americans, over 100,000 people voted "uncommitted" last month
"Many New Yorkers are struggling with the question of whether to show up for Tuesday's presidential primary. We're urging voters to use their voice at the ballot box to send a clear message to President Biden that he must correct course on the war on Gaza," said New York Working Families Party co-directors Ana María Archila and Jasmine Gripper in a statement.
"With the general election seven months away, voters can make a strategic appeal to President Biden to listen to the overwhelming majority of voters who support a permanent cease-fire, the safe return of hostages, and emergency humanitarian aid," they added
Biden is expected to face Republican former President Donald Trump in November. Although the Democratic president called for Israel to end the "indiscriminate bombing" of civilians in Gaza, his administration has also continued to arm Israeli forces—sending fighter jets and 2,000-pound bombs that can take out an entire city block.
"The war in Gaza has really splintered the Democratic coalition that is urgently needed to defeat Trump and his right-wing extremist agenda," Archila toldGothamist. "And it has created a very serious moral dilemma for voters across the country."
According to Gothamist:
Archila said she viewed the blank vote campaign as something that would engage and unify Democrats at a moment when they lack enthusiasm.
"Instead of disconnecting from democracy, what we need to be doing is leaning into our democracy," she said. "And we know that voters who show up in the primary are more likely to show up in a general election."
Archila and Gripper's party joins a growing number of groups supporting the campaign. They include IfNotNow NYC, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Action, MPOWER Action: Muslim Grassroots Movement, Peace Action New York State, Sunrise Movement NYC, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, and multiple chapters of Democratic Socialists of America
SERIOUSLY. I know a lot of people feel like it accomplishes nothing, but even if that were the case, it also costs nothing. If you give a shit at all about Palestine, the climate, social justice, etc., we NEED a better candidate than Biden.
I will not tell anyone who to vote for. that is a decision to be made autonomously. However, I would like to put out there that Marianne Williamson is back in the primaries after temporarily putting her campaign on hold. I find her stances on important issues (which you can read about here) to be pretty reasonable. she is pro-ceasefire, pro-climate, against the war on drugs, pro-lgbt...the list goes on. I know her odds against Biden are not great, but that doesn't make voting any less important. If we can even get her to 2nd place, it could be huge.
I chose the Republican ballot because we can do that here in Indiana then vote however we want in the November election. There are three offices I was mainly interested in voting on especially the governor. There’s a certain individual I would love to see not make it through the primary, so I voted for a candidate who says he supports legalization of medical marijuana and would consider recreational. My hope is that the only Democrat candidate will win in November, Jennifer McCormick. Get out and vote! 
Can people realize that “everybody else will vote for biden so voting for anyone else is futile” is in itself stupid and a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Let me break this down. Who is everyone? The voters? Okay, and who are the voters? Are you a voter? So, you are part of the “everyone” that you just said, right?
Okay. So. If millions of people think that everybody else, all the other voters, are going to vote for biden…who do you think they will vote for?
But! If we actively try and vote for someone else, then what happens?
“But trump will win! Nobody else has a chance!”
We haven’t even gotten to the primaries yet and you’ve already given up! How do you not see that?! There are two other Democratic candidates and (i think) two green party candidates! Right There!
“Green party has never won, they would need every single vote.”
And WHY can’t we all vote green party if it was the best viable decision?
“everybody else will vote for biden so voting for anyone else is futile”
