Thank you.
My homies are rockin’ the vote, y’all!
Colorado Secretary of State confirms that my ballot has been accepted.
One of every 17 registered voters in Texas voted on/by the first day… and at 1 million votes, they’re still counting yesterday’s votes:
My wife voted yesterday, took just over an hour in Franklin County, Ohio. I am going tomorrow morning. A report I read this morning indicated that 3x the number of Ohioans have voted early in this first week than the total of early voters in the 2016 election.
There can’t be that many new Trump voters, right? A guy can dream that this is a huge Biden surge.
Early-voted in my leafy, solid-red far-north Houston suburb this morning. Line stretched several hundred yards, and took about 50 minutes to get through. By far the longest wait I’ve ever experienced at this location. Fortunately it was a pleasant, mild day.
If any of Trump’s notorious ‘thousands of lawyers’ and vigilante poll-watchers were present, they were well-hidden.
Also, they were temporarily out of 'I voted" stickers, dammit.
Lol, at that rate the state will complete its voting on Oct. 29. How was your personal experience?
I’ve been dreaming of a blue Texas in '28 to bury the GOP once and for all. To have a genuine possibility of getting it eight years early is nearly orgasmic.
I have to think that most people either vote as soon as convenient, or else wait until close to the deadline. That’s how most people do almost everything else.
My experience was fine. It took 2.5 hours or so, mixture of red and blue. There were NO Trump signs at the location, other than two candidates/organizations which attached his name to their sign.
The ‘Election Protector’ was an eldery gentleman with a limp.
The Trump supporters did get mad when a woman passed out sample ballots… with the Democrats selected!
For some reason, I felt compelled to send a lot of election-oriented tweets verbally by saying, loudly, stuff like ‘This is a job review, not a wish fullfillment fantasy like 2016. With 200,000 Americans dead and 20,000,000 unemployed, he has proven himself to be incapable of doing the job, and America is lining up to say YOU’RE FIRED, send tweet’. ‘If I hired this guy to manage my Wendy’s, my customer count would’ve dropped 3%, revenues 12%, my incompetent staff constantly infighting, with a damned disease outbreak occurring in the kitchen. I sure wouldn’t wait four years to fire that guy, send tweet’.
Lol, by such means I was able to keep myself amused. The best part is when I played a bit of Bach through the phone speaker and the Trumpy’s in front of me started looking for the ice cream truck!
Received ballot around 1:30PM, back at the post office to drop it off before 3:00PM.
Most of that time spent filling in the yes/no votes to retain what seemed to be about 10,000 judges. Plus researching who to pick for a seat on the Maricopa County Community College board (let’s see, the incumbent with the 41 years of community college teaching and administration experience, or the challenger with experience as a cosmetology instructor until she got fired?)…
The entire back of my ballot was judges. Not one was being challenged. I still went through and voted for the judges I know and like.
The one selection I had problems making a decision on - mayor of my city. Both are middle aged white guys with similar first names (think Jim and Tim) and the same last name. Both are running on fiscal responsibility, racial equity, bringing in businesses. I ended up looking at their social media, seeing what all they posted about, and then had to write on my hand which one I needed to vote for.
Here’s a source for CA prop info I came across this year and really like. Appreciate getting backstory on who’s funding and why. Pete Rates the Propositions - November 2020
wow, how do y’all ever manage to vote? I spent more time educating myself on our 2 ballot questions than on all the candidates combined, and I’m still not sure I voted them right.
Thanks. I’ve bookmarked this.
In the past, I’ve spent way too much time trying to study propositions, reading on-line media editorials and op-eds from numerous sources, including newspapers in liberal-leaning regions and conservative-leaning areas. I discovered that this turns one’s brain to mush quickly. So I picked a few propositions that looked important to focus on and studied just those. I voted on the others after reading just the summaries and thumbnail arguments in the ballot handbook, which is probably about as meaningful as flipping a coin.
This year, I’m planning to study ALL the propositions, but a little more quickly. I plan to read the editorials in the L.A.Times, S.F.Chronicle, Ballotpedia, and I’ll take a look at Pete’s blog that snoe linked a couple posts above.
That and the threads in this forum on CA propositions.
I propose to try spend just maybe two hours on each proposition, doing maybe two a day, for the next two weeks. A lot of them will probably go even quicker than that.
ETA: There’s a read, genuine, official, legal drop-box within a fortnight’s drive from where I live so I don’t feel the need to get it in the mail super-early.
“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.” - RUSH
I’m in Brooklyn, New York.
I’ll vote in person on Election Day. That way I can be as certain as possible that my vote will be counted.
I’ll take all possible precautions when I go to my polling place, but I think it’s the best way to go.
Just got this text message:
Hello from Maricopa County Elections.
Election Day is 11-03-2020.
Your ballot was received and will be sent for signature verification. Watch for an update notice
My daughter voted yesterday!! She is 30, and this is the first election she participated in. “We have to get Trump out!” , she told me. She’s also been urging her friends to vote, so in the end she’ll be responsible for around a dozen Biden/Harris votes.
When I told her I was voting In person on Election Day, she said I was cute.
I voted in-person yesterday. This was the second week that early in-person voting was available in Virginia. It was about 11:00am, and there was a steady stream in and out. In fact, I waited longer than I normally do at my polling station. I’m thrilled.