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Amy knows that a lot of people hate every candidate on the ballot this November.

A nurse who's worked for more than a decade at Bread and Roses Women's Health Center, an abortion clinic in Gainesville, Florida, Amy has dealt with both patients and friends who feel so disillusioned about partisan politics that they don't want to vote at all in the 2024 elections. She gets it: the mere thought of the last few elections makes her grimace.