# Have you already voted?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [October 19, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233 "2012-10-19T15:50:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/1 "2012-10-19T15:50:30Z")
Just curious: how many people out there have already cast your votes. If you have, where do you live?
I’m in Oregon, got my ballot yesterday, filled it out, and turned it in today.
I’m done.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/2 "2012-10-19T16:03:44Z")
Early voting starts in Nevada tomorrow.
Sometime between tomorrow and Monday, Obama will get one early vote from me in Nevada.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/3 "2012-10-19T16:06:58Z")
I do the permanent absentee thing in California, so they always mail me my ballot. I voted last week, the very same evening I received my ballot.
I enjoy voting. I like to pretend it actually matters.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/4 "2012-10-19T16:07:00Z")
I believe our early voting in Illinois will start on Monday and I plan on doing so.
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### Author:  [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/5 "2012-10-19T16:27:29Z")
Starts Monday here and I intend to.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/6 "2012-10-19T16:28:14Z")
Got my MI absentee ballot yesterday. I’ll be filling it out and returning it to the clerk either today or Monday.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/7 "2012-10-19T17:35:54Z")
Early voting here started on Wednesday. I’m going to go tomorrow if the line isn’t too bad.
ETA: Wow, it looks like they had 228,000 people vote in the first two days.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/8 "2012-10-19T17:38:16Z")
Yep, live in FL, already done and done.
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### Author:  [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/9 "2012-10-19T17:47:13Z")
Voted absentee this morning (I teach at a community college two hours away from my home). It took 20 minutes total, very easy in Minnesota. There were ten people in the small room where the voting was happening. I think the voting wait time will get progressively longer the closer it gets to election day.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/10 "2012-10-19T18:50:27Z")
Wish I could–I got spoiled on it in Ohio. Now that I’m in the Big Apple, I’ve actually got to wait for election day, stand in line, etc… 😛
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### Author:  [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/11 "2012-10-19T19:20:21Z")
Pennsylvania. I’ll be traveling for work on election day, and voted by absentee ballot last week. Very easy. I’m a little sad that I won’t be here to vote in person; I always enjoy the experience.
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### Author:  [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/12 "2012-10-19T19:38:49Z")
Texas early voting starts Monday, so I’ll go cast my completely meaningless ballot then.
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### Author:  [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/13 "2012-10-19T20:04:05Z")
My wife and I sent in our absentee ballots in California a few days ago.
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### Author:  [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/14 "2012-10-20T20:57:12Z")
NY, the backward state, starts voting at 6 AM EST on November 6. Except for absentee balloting.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/15 "2012-10-20T21:01:03Z")
It would be convenient for me to, but I live in Ohio, and I’m still not convinced that our lovely Secretary of Stealing Elections won’t figure out a way to make early votes not count.
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/16 "2012-10-20T21:11:52Z")
Filled it out 20 minutes ago…will be in the mail on Monday.
I’m trying to decide which Doper’s vote I just cancelled out… so many to chose from!
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/17 "2012-10-20T21:13:04Z")
I voted (early) in VA today. It’s technically called In Person Absentee Voting here.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/18 "2012-10-20T21:29:31Z")
All sealed up, just waiting to drop it in the mail…
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/19 "2012-10-20T21:31:33Z")
Our county has gone all mail-in. Voted Friday. I hope the candidates don’t give me a reason to change my mind.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-already-voted/638233/20 "2012-10-20T21:32:15Z")
> [@What\_the](#):
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> Filled it out 20 minutes ago…will be in the mail on Monday.
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> I’m trying to decide which Doper’s vote I just cancelled out… so many to chose from!
[Yee-Haw! My Vote Cancels Out Y’all’s!](http://www.theonion.com/articles/yeehaw-my-vote-cancels-out-yalls,11030/)
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