Happy Sep 30th to you all.
Today I voted. My ballot arrived on Sat and today = Mon USPS is carrying it back to the elections board. In a few days I an check online to see that they have it.
Who’s next? Or who’s even quicker on the draw and already voted?
I received my ballot on Sat the 21st and sent it back on Mon the 23rd.
I’m an overseas resident so I get to vote by email. Neener neener.
I’ll be voting early morning on November 5th. I like the whole process, going to the Sportsman’s Club, being the youngest person in the building, thoughtfully filling out my ballot, getting my sticker.
I always try to arrive and be one of the first to vote.
We received our mail in ballots on September 19 and sent them back early last week. We live outside of the US, so we get our ballots 2-3 weeks early.
Not in US, but we have a provincial election next month. I’ve received info on voting by mail, but the ballots don’t get printed until a couple of weeks before voting starts, after the close of nominations.
You do you of course.
But as someone who spent ~40 years never knowing until the very day whether I’d be in town, the idea of waiting until the very last ~12 hours of a ~2-month long window of opportunity feels foolish in the extreme. If anything goes wrong, you’re screwed. Freak snow storm, emergency appendectomy, all your cars break down just before Election Day, etc.?
You being in PA especially, your vote is one of the relatively few across this country that really, really, REALLY matters. I hope my vote here in FL turns the state Blue, but that’s a much longer shot for me than for you.
For absolutely no rational reason I am forever afraid of using the USPS to reliably deliver something really important like a ballot and also totally not convinced someone will bother to open and record my vote at wherever it is mail-in ballots go.
I get millions of people do this and it works. I 100% get it is me being irrational.
I just want to walk to the polling place and know (as best I can) that my ballot was recorded.
I mean, what happens if I mail in my ballot but I have been “cleansed” from the voter rolls? Or Joe mailman dumped my mail somewhere (it has happened…not ballots specifically but just dumped mail). Would I ever know? I just hope it all went to plan?
I faced an interesting dilemma on the state portion of my ballot.
I don’t understand the details, but FL has a process where Supreme Court Justices face a quasi-election where the question is “Shall Justice So-and-So” be retained in office?" Maybe that’s a one-time voter confirmation of recent appointees, maybe it’s a periodic thing every justice goes through every X years, maybe it’s ???
Anyhow there are two justices on our court facing that question. Both are DeSantis appointees, both are women, one is black and the other Cuban. Both are proud members of the Federalist Society and on their list of people to promote to ever bigger and better roles in destroying the USA.
So do I vote to kick them off the Court due to their FS connections? Sure I do. Except for the fact that if they are removed, DeSantis gets to pick their replacements too.
Decisions decisions. Talk about a Hobson’s choice.
Voting them off sends a message.
You have divined my reasoning.
Different states handle things differently, so not going to judge your irrationality. I assume you’re not in a semi-enlightened state that lets you confirm online that your ballot has been received and processed?
Here in Colorado, our ballots won’t be mailed until Oct 11-18, and the week after is when the drop boxes are required to be open.
Now, due to my barely-not-quite irrational worries about my heavily Trump-y Colorado Springs, yeah, I don’t mail them in even with an online tracker and verification (not worried about the mail, worried about someone harvesting my mailbox) so I always drop them at the secure box a mile or so away.
Colorado may not qualify a a battleground state anymore, but while I may be not quite rational, I’m absolutely convinced some of the MAGA types in my general area are quite verifiably bug-nuts crazy!
Seconded, this is a great feature and every jurisdiction should offer it. My voter page also shows my full balloting history going back 20 years, showing I haven’t missed an election in all that time.
Oh, and I just visited and confirmed that the ballot I emailed (per above) is officially counted as of yesterday.
You can do early voting in person at the county seat in New York State. (I don’t know about Illinois.) That’s what I’m planning on.
Early voting here opens October 26. I may not get there that day, but will at some point during the early voting period.
I got my ballot by email around ten days ago. I printed out two copies (one for my wife as well) and we filled them out and signed them nine days ago. I also printed out the official envelopes and stuffed the ballots in, but didn’t get to the post office till last Wednesday, five days ago. But yes, we have voted. Unfortunately, it is not likely to matter in IL. Although the congressional district is a gerrymandered narrow strip that runs from the IN border to the MO border, including Champaign, Urbana, and E. St. Louis, so the Dem incumbent will likely hang on.
Kind of weird here. No mail delivery. It just goes to our POB. We work in the county where our POB is, but vote in the county that we live (we live about 1/4 mile from the county that our POB and work is.
It’s never been a problem. And in some ways I prefer to vote where I live and not where I work.
We have yet to get our ballots, but we only go by our mailboxes about once a week.
I just checked and here early in person voting starts on October 26. There is still some time to request a mail in ballot but I won’t be doing that. I like the tradition of going in person.
We’re going to have Voting Week this time around in our provincial election, so if you like voting in person you have plenty of opportunity to do so, without worrying that something might happen at the last minute to prevent you from voting.
For five days, scheduled for October 22-26, multiple voting locations in your constituency will be open from 10 am to 7 pm. Then on October 28, the last day of voting, polls will be open for extended hours from 9 am to 8 pm. In total, you will have 56 hours of in-person voting to cast your ballot during the six days of Voting Week.
I’ll be voting in the late afternoon on Monday 10/21, the first day of early voting here in Texas.
Can I go vote every day they’re open?
I mailed my ballot (and Madame P’s) last Saturday.