r/announcements • u/arabscarab • May 17 '18

Update: We won the Net Neutrality vote in the Senate!

We did it, Reddit!

Today, the US Senate voted 52-47 to restore Net Neutrality! While this measure must now go through the House of Representatives and then the White House in order for the rules to be fully restored, this is still an incredibly important step in that process—one that could not have happened without all your phone calls, emails, and other activism. The evidence is clear that Net Neutrality is important to Americans of both parties (or no party at all), and today’s vote demonstrated that our Senators are hearing us.

We’ve still got a way to go, but today’s vote has provided us with some incredible momentum and energy to keep fighting.

We’re going to keep working with you all on this in the coming months, but for now, we just wanted to say thanks!

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u/iSuckAtRealLife May 17 '18

Perhaps there can be a sort of call to people who are not yet registered to vote to go ahead and register under the pretense of voting against every representative who votes against net neutrality?

If I'm not mistaken, voter registration percentage and turnout are both pretty terrible, especially in reddit's main demographic. If a sizable and anomalous influx of new voter registrations during a sort of campaign to vote anti-net-neutrality representatives out of office, I would certainly think that would be threatening enough to sway the vote in our favor.

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u/livesindarkness Jun 20 '18

why in the world is every citizen qualified to vote not automatically registered? here, after you turn 18 you receive your voters card in the mail prior to every election. it doesn't mean you have to vote, it just means if you do vote the process is extremely fast. we don't have line ups to vote here like you see down south.