I took a 20 minute walk, but stopped to vote, and was back in 30 minutes. I put my “I Voted Sticker” on a nearby neighbors “Harris/Waltz” sign.
Why am I STILL getting email pleas for campaign donations at 5:30 EST? What could they possibly do with that money?
Pay for the inevitable legal challenges.
Hey, I love my stickers.
I grabbed all the families before the actual toddlers here got them.
With 90 minutes before the polls close, St. Louis County Missouri says 65% of registered voters have voted. Election officials are projecting 73%-75% when it’s all over.
I found this interesting… Not very surprising, but still interesting data.
The link should go to an article on a scrolling feed titled:
CBS News exit poll: Harris voters more confident the election will be conducted fairly than Trump voters
But the polls themselves I found interesting. I’ll just post the pictures without the analysis, because I think they speak for themselves.
I certainly identify with the first poll. My top priority since 2020 has been protecting democracy in this country, which the Republicans have been relentlessly attacking. And the result of that attack can be seen in the last two images.
I see you’ve played sausagy-stickery before.
A worrying number for Oregon, only 55% of ballots have been received as of yesterday, This compares to 62% in 2016 and 73% in 2020. Multnomah County (which includes most of Portland and is something like 90% Dems) is only at 50%.
Portland had a difficult ballot this year. We have a new form of city government with district-level council members instead of city wide, and the top three candidates in each district win. Plus, we just implemented ranked choice voting for mayor and council members. So in my district, I had 29 candidates (none of them incumbents) and I had to rank the top 6.
It was not an easy ballot to fill out, especially if you wanted to do any research on the candidates. I fear this might suppress the Portland vote if people just give up on it, which would disproportionally favor Republican candidates in the state and national races. The results so far lend credence to this fear.
No, what the huge lever did was open and close the curtain around the voting booth; and register the vote, whatever it was. Inside the booth there was a little individual lever for each candidate; just as easy to split vote as to vote straight line. IIRC it wouldn’t let you pull down too many levers – pulling down one for a given choice locked the others for that choice. No filling out bubbles, no wondering whether you’d filled them out right. (And it would have been easy enough to set them one way, take a picture, and then reset them before actually voting, because your vote wasn’t locked in until you pulled the large lever to open the curtain; until then you could change it. Pulling the large lever, in addition to opening the curtain, recorded the vote and reset all the levers to neutral.) Those machines didn’t generally overlap with people routinely having cameras in their pockets, though.)
No paper ballot to keep in case of challenges, though.
There is a similar article about Washington State, but it offers an explanation.
Though the lag is significant, the COVID-19 pandemic caused more people to vote early in 2020 than they would during a typical general election year, according to the Secretary of State’s database.
So hold your concerns until all the ballots have been received. There may be more ballots received later this year than there was four years ago, and we don’t yet know what the total result will be.
I am pretty much nothing but a giant ball of concerns at this point.
I now have, in my head and to some extent in my kinetic sense, an image of holding a huge ball of concerns as if they were frightened kittens, trying to comfort them; while not knowing whether it actually is going to be all right.
On YouTube and in other places I’ve been seeing recipes for an item called Election Cake. It supposedly was used at elections in the late 1700’s and earlier 1800’s… So when you voted you got a treat.
Yeah, and by the time they have counts for all of the ballots in on the west coast, we may have at least a good idea of who is going to be in the White House. (Maybe, we may not know for a while.)
I just remember how strong the showing was in Washington in the primaries, so I’m not extremely worried about our local elections. Including who my ultimate boss will be next year (since I work in the executive branch of government).
Some times and places I believe you got booze.
2 states are about to close. Shall we begin…
Well, I’m about to open the bar here, so sure, why not?
I think all my concerns are now gathered in my stomach which has been making loud, angry growling noises as I am forced to consider what the outcome might be.
I think it is time for a shower and some soothing medication.
And so it begins.
Another full day for philly police. Everyone has been called in.