Have you voted yet?

Yes, voted in person, curbside, in Texas On Saturday.

Most states have laws about this. However, in general they don’t go to the bother to compare death notices with ballots. Does Pennsylvania?

according to reports they do. some do go through if the passing is within a day or 2 of election day.

i remember quite the discussion at the obama philly headquarters due to his grandmother passing just before election day.

For many years in San Francisco after my grandmother died, she still appeared on the roster. All anyone would have to do was to show up with a piece of mail addressed to her (IIRC) and they could vote under her name.

Every year I’d tell them, “Hey, you know, she died in 1982. She should be removed from this address roster.”

Finally, I think it was about 8-10 years later, her name was removed. I don’t know what the process was that resulted in her being removed. I certainly didn’t pursue it other than to tell the poll workers each year.

Just stuck my absentee ballot into the drop box at the Brooklyn Museum. I would have preferred to vote in person, but we have one polling place per (quick google) um…100,000 people.

I just dropped my absentee ballot into my town’s official ballot drop box this morning.

My state of Connecticut sent absentee ballot applications to all registered voters this year because of Covid-19. I dropped off my signed application earlier this month, and got my ballot just two days later in the mail. I carefully followed all the directions for filling out the ballot and signing the inside secrecy envelope, etc.

This is not the first time I’ve voted absentee. I had to fly down to Texas in 2016 on Election Day to attend my grandfather’s funeral, so I voted absentee a few day before. The difference then is that I did everything in person instead of using a drop box.

We have what I think is a great system of voting here in Connecticut. You get a ballot printed on card stock, and you then fill in the ovals of your preferred candidates with a black Sharpie marker. This way they can scan the cards electronically, plus there is a paper backup for recounts. If you vote in person, you put the ballot into the scanner yourself (which simultaneously collects the ballots). It’s a big improvement from my first election here in 2004 that still used the old-fashioned lever mechanical voting machines.

Old way (prior to 2006):

New way (as of 2006):
https://www.norwalkct.org/DocumentCenter/View/301/Optical-Scan-Ballot-Instructions

So anyway, I’ve voted. So have my wife and adult son.

Now there’s nothing to do but watch and wait for the results.

Exactly one week from right now, I’ll be getting dressed to drive to the Sportsman’s Club to cast my vote. I assume the poll workers vote before opening up, but I hope to be “first” on November third.

Hard to believe it’s upon us — only a week away.
It’s great seeing so many people voting.
Our ballots arrived in the mail a week ago and they’ve been quarantined. We’ll open them today and get started voting.

Inspired by this thread. I voted and mailed it in Thursday along with Mrs Cad.

President: I really wish Harris was running for President because I just couldn’t pull the trigger for Biden or Trump. Although I abstained since “none of the above” wasn’t a choice, I secretly want Biden to win and be unable to serve on Jan 20th at noon.

Senator: Hickenlooper. As Pubby as I am I so hate that condescending ass Gardner and I firmly believe that as shady as Hickenlooper is he has Colorado’s best interests at heart.

Selected Propositions:
77 allowing our gambling cities local control of their gaming: yes
113 joining the National Popular Vote Compact: no
114 restoring wolves to Colorado: YES!
116 reducing the state income tax: no, this is not the year for Colorado to reduce tax revenue

Dropped my ballot off about a week and a half ago at the county drop box between the courthouse and the police station.

The one (Oregon) ballot measure that stood out to me was legalizing the therapeutic use of psilocybin. We’ll see what becomes of that.

Also, our county elections were ranked choice, a novelty to me.

Our ballots have been in the quarantined mail. We’ll open them today, we’ll vote, and then we’ll drop them off next Tuesday!

Voted Early in person at the village hall.

My fiancee and I voted early in-person on Saturday morning at the township hall, which was closed to the public due to Covid from mid-March until the day early voting began. Fairly short line; took about a half-hour from exiting our car to getting back in.

First time voting in our new county, and we both made sure we were registered before October. (My fiancee’s new voter registration card came in the Monday mail after we voted :thinking: but they don’t ask to see it anyhow.) Much shorter ballot than when we were in Cook County with its seemingly endless list of judges up for retention.

I spent longer double-checking my ballot than I did filling it out. I was struck with an appel du vide thought that it would be as easy to fill in the Trump oval as the Biden oval, so I triple-checked that I filled in the correct oval in the presidential race.

My only complaint is that they had no “I voted” stickers. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I would much rather vote in person but it’s not allowed this year. I voted a few weeks ago and dropped it off in the official drop box in front of the county library.

Oh, sorry, I misread that.

Got our mail-in ballots back at the start of Oct. I promptly spoiled mine by voting wrong on an amendment. Had to wait until early voting opened last week to take the spoiled one in, swap it for a fresh one, then vote in person. All done.

Wife learned from my mistake, didn’t spoil hers and it was mailed in the day after she got it.

As of today, 65% of the D-registered mail ballots that were sent out have come back. Same for 58% of the R-registered ballots, and 56% of the unaffiliated ballots.

My ballot was surprisingly short this year. It was only one side, and I don’t recall it being the entire side, either. Filled it out in black ink (because despite the ads saying black or blue, the ballot instructions said black and I’m taking no chances), did the appropriate signings and sealings, and dropped it off a week ago this past Saturday wearing my VOTE Tell Them Ruth Sent You t-shirt.

It was registered as having been cast the following Monday and the current status now says “Vote Recorded”. This is weird, because I thought PA couldn’t count the votes until November 3rd. Or is “recorded” not the same as “counted”?

Voted today, early voting in person.

New York State opened early voting Saturday 24; but I wanted to avoid possible first-day-or-two long lines. Late afternoon, but before standard-hours quitting time for most jobs, today there was very little line; two or three people ahead of me, two or three others coming in as I left

In my low-population area there’s only one early voting site for the whole county, in the county seat; which is about 12 miles from me, or about twice the distance to my usual election-day voting site. I had other errands in the same village, though, so it wasn’t a hardship for me to get there; I just saved the other errands to combine on the day I planned to vote.

Sign-in sheet to enter the county office building, you had to sign that you weren’t experiencing any symptoms and had no known recent exposure. Person at entry making sure people did the sign-in sheet. That’s probably standard right now, whether voting’s going on or not. Another person at entry to the room people were voting in, making sure not too many in the room at one time. Wooden throw-away stick used to sign in an electronic signature box. Got handed a pen, presumably sanitized, and a ballot; filled in bubbles on ballot, keeping my streak of never having voted a straight party line by voting for one of the judges on the Working Families line; fed ballot to machine, was told to read off what machine was saying to another pollwatcher, presumably so that if it couldn’t read or for some other reason didn’t accept the ballot they could offer me another try; but it said first processing and then accepted, at which point I got handed a sticker and ushered back out.

Yeah, I wonder if it’s similar to Microsoft Outlook’s “delivery receipt” vs “read receipt” when you send an email. Sounds like you’ve gotten the “delivery receipt”.

“Accepted,” which here in Maryland means “counted.”