To my left, a woman in purple spandex is performing a masterful pole dance. To my right, a man stomps to the music, his singlet reading: Freedom In Every Vote.
It’s shortly after 7am in the city of Durham – one hour before early voting centres open across the state – and I’m in a converted warehouse with strangers, dancing for democracy.
The event – similar ones are taking place in swing states across the country – begins with a one-hour boogie, before participants take the party through the streets and to the nearest early voting centre, where everyone then casts an early ballot for the November 5 election. This has resulted in much of the population sitting out elections rather than having a say in who becomes their next president.In the 2020 match-up between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, for instance, a record 159 million Americans cast a vote, but this represented only about 67 per cent of eligible voters. About 80 million others didn’t take part.
“We have to get rid of mail-in ballots because once you have mail-in ballots, you have crooked elections,” Trump said in January after he won the Iowa caucus. Party to the Polls, however, does not advocate for any individual candidate. The initiative is run by Daybreaker, a social experiment that began more than a decade ago as a drug-free, sunrise party designed to “turn nightlife on its head”.From the first Daybreaker gig in the basement of a Union Square coffee shop in New York, the movement has now expanded to mobilise people ahead of US elections.
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