The library I volunteer at had their first day of early voting last Saturday, the 19th. They had more than 400 people show up. Good for them!
You left out “burning”. 
A View from the North:
Provincial election is on; today was the first day of Voting Week (Tuesday to Saturday).
Walked to the Museum (10 minutes), waited for 10 minutes, showed my Voter Card and my driver’s licence, poll clerk ticked me off the paper list.
I voted for one and only one candidate, put my ballot in the box, and it was done!
The fellow ahead of me was French, just got his citizenship, and was proud to say he was voting for the first time in a Canadian election.
One of the fellows behind me didn’t have his Voter Card, but had his driver’s licence. Poll clerk said he needed a second ID, and he was able to produce his card from the Sask Liquor and Gaming Commission - second piece of government ID, also with a picture. (Clerk said he only needed one with a picture.)
Got my “I voted” sticker.
As I was leaving, 3 or 4 people were coming in, who sounded like they were also new Canadians.
Walked home; done in 30 minutes overall.
The asshat Ohio SoS has deemed that we’re only allowed one drop box and one early voting place in each county. Not sure if the “only one early voting place per county” thing is unique to Ohio, but only one drop box per county seems to be.
What’s rich is that you are not allowed to drop someone else’s ballot at the drop box unless you have a signed affidavit that you’re allowed to do it. The boxes are monitored and they will make you sit there and fill out a form.
So crazy, I could take all of my neighbors’ ballots and pop them in the USPS mailbox for them if they wanted. But if I wanted to take my mom’s ballot to the drop box for her I have to drive a half hour to Akron and sign an affidavit that she has allowed me to do so.
Anyway…the ballots I dropped off at the post office for me and Mom last Monday were marked as received on Saturday. I don’t think they count them until election day, but they’ll be reported almost as soon as the polls are closed.
Voted in Houston, Texas suburb. mid-day. Lots of people, out the door line…but probably 15mins or so from start to finish. Very efficient. We started in-person early voting two days ago on Monday.
You’re allowed to campaign outside the polling locations. Chatted up a lady - she was running for a local county board seat. Super sweet and nice, we both laughed. And I’m thinking to myself…you want to ban books at my daughter’s school…doesn’t show.
Mrs. Martian and I just dropped our Arizona ballots into the mail slot at the post office here in Delaware. The ballot was huge, two legal-size sheets, both sides of each to fill out. Took me fifteen minutes because my hand kept cramping from filling in so many little circles. I can’t imagine how much the complexity of the ballot will slow down in-person voting, especially on Election Day.
Page 1 was all the regular races, from President down to local school board. Just vote for Dems down the line, then use the voting guide the local Dems sent for the “non-partisan” elections - mayor, council, school board plus the Central AZ Water Conservation District.
Page 2 was all the judicial elections - all “retain in office” votes. Voted to keep everyone except for the two Supreme Court justices who voted that the 1864 total abortion ban (50 years before AZ was a state) was valid.
Second sheet was State and County propositions. 13 State propositions, 12 of which were submitted by the legislature (R) for laws that the governor (D) was going to veto. Voted no on all of those. The remaining proposition, buried amongst all the others (which was probably also part of the strategy) was the right to abortion for any reason up to viability and for health and life of the mother after that. Voted yes on that.
Last two were county initiatives which were fairly straightforward.
81 dots to fill in. Whew.
My wife and I filled out our ballots at the Duck and Decanter on Sunday.
I dropped the ballots in the mail that night, and they were received on Tuesday.
My ballot arrived at its destination on Monday, but they didn’t post it on the website until today (Wednesday).
In Iowa, an affidavit is only used if a person filled in a ballot on behalf of someone else, generally someone who is blind or quadriplegic.
Ballots were mailed out last Wednesday, my wife got hers on Friday, mine didn’t show up until yesterday. Dropped both ballots off at the county courthouse this afternoon when I went to renew the vehicle tags. Two more votes for Harris/Walz!
Florida is lousy about mail in ballots, but they do a good job with early voting. It started Monday, and I stopped in this morning about 9:30 am. There was a line, but I only stood in it for about 10 minutes (if that!)
Voting was easy - I voted straight Democrat, and pro freedom (yes on abortion rights and marijuana). And I voted to kick out every judge (fuck ‘em, I say)
Although I have to admit that it was weird trying to pray for my Harris/Walz vote when I don’t believe in god. I basically closed my eyes after filling in the circle and silently intoned “Please!”
After I voted, I found a link that is reporting the Florida turnout. If you filter it by party affiliation, it’s saying turnout has been 40% democrats, 40 % republicans, and 20% other (that’s with about 2.2 million votes cast)
Ditto.
Tomorrow I mail out my remember-to-vote postcards, and then I’ll have to try and think of something else until it’s all over.
The evil bastards cancelled all the mail-in ballot requests a couple years ago. But if you put yours back in, the mail out of ballots went flawlessly this time in my county at least and the mail in likewise seems to be running smoothly.
As I mentioned above, they didn’t / don’t start counting until last week. But the mail-out occurred 3-4 weeks ago. So if you turn yours around quickly it’ll sit in uncounted limbo for awhile at the county clerk’s office.
Our ballots are submitted.
I voted. Since Arkansas isn’t really contested territory I didn’t expect any shennanigans. I thanked several of the poll workers for volunteering.
LOL Thursday 2am I get a text telling me that according to USPS data I can expect my ballot on Tuesday. Nice to see they’re right on top of things! 
Mine says “received” on the Michigan ballot site. I assume that is what I"m supposed to see.
Mailing mine out today.
I’m in line right now. There’s around 100 people in line ahead of me. I don’t know if that’s a sign that’s better for Harris or Trump (or Cruz or Allred), but it does tell me we’re in for another high turnout election. My guess is that of those eligible voters who don’t vote this year, a large majority will be due to making an active decision to not vote, with very few due to being lazy or a lack of interest. The “lazy voter who couldn’t get their ass off the couch” will be very low on my list of people to blame should Harris end up losing.
ETA. It seems like the low turnout elevations from the mid 20th century through 2016 are a thing of the past.
I do admit to a degree of prejudice. To the extent that there are people who fulfill that trope, I agree that they’d likely vote Trump if they could be bothered. Those people are looking for entertainment and Trump provides it. Reality TV as National policy and all. Who wants to watch old shows like “Headline News” or MSNBC that tell us all how bad things are, when Fox will constantly keep you entertained by all the disasters that they and Trump can FIX for you! It keeps reporting all the freaks and weirdos out there (cat litter, post-live-birth “Abortions”, etc) that you can feel safely superior to, and outraged about!
Yeah, I feel overall better that those who fulfill the trope can’t be bothered.
Though, in the spirit of fairness, I also acknowledge that I’m overgeneralizing, and likely doing a fair percentage that are close a disservice.
Our ballots (LA County) are six pages legal size (3 pages front and back). I was envying the people who said their ballots were only one page/one side. We dropped our completed ballots off at the city hall in the adjacent little town next to ours (like 4 miles from our house) before going to get groceries, and there was a small but steady stream of people dropping off at the same time.