• ezmack@lemmy.mlOP
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    Small towns are rough man. People will run as both the dem and republican candidate in my town and you can’t vote in town meetings if you aren’t a property owner

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        Oh it’s happening quite fast. My very small rural home town was already dwindling when I graduated 15 years ago. Now sports teams in the area are having to consolidate with neighboring towns and consolidating entire districts is in talks.

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      Where is this? Outside of HOA nonsense, I thought property ownership died as a requirement in the 1800’s.

      I guess the slightly less doxx-y question is: what states still allow that crap?

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          I was so sure your town was doing something unconstitutional because it sounded so blatantly wrong. Found the answer and man, your state needs to sort that shit out.

          Fwiw, a few MA towns are going the other way: pushing the state to allow noncitizens to vote in TM.

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            Yeah town was founded around the Civil War and I suspect that has something to do with the way it is now. Had a brief klan revival in the 80s and 90s, and, given the size, hitting way above our weight for number of people arrested for january 6