Just saw a WaPo article where you can identify donations in your zip code to Biden/Harris vs. Trump.
In my zip code, it’s 857 donations & $100K total for Biden/Harris; 130 donations & $40K for Trump. Makes sense to me.
For my Texas friends, I saw this website that you can check and confirm that your ballot has been counted.
I voted in-person yesterday, and sure enough my name was listed here. I don’t qualify for any of the hoops that you have to jump through here to be eligible to vote by mail, but maybe this could be useful for that purpose as well?
https://earlyvoting.texas-election.com/Elections/getElectionDetails.do
Step 1 : Select November 5th from the drop-down.
Step 2 : Select the date you want under the left-hand “Unofficial Early Voting Turnout by Date”, and then click “Submit” (I didn’t select anything with the other two drop-downs).
Step 3 : All the counties appear, and in the right-hand side there’s a field for “Voter Details Report” and the red “Click Here” link. I clicked on that link next to my county and downloaded the .csv report and yep, my name is included.
I voted day before yesterday: the second day of early voting in my county. It took about 25 minutes from the time I entered the line to the time I left; plus about 20 minutes each end for parking/getting out of the parking lot.
Four pages. Like other Florida voters in the thread, I said ‘no’ to all the judges (all appointed by DeSantis). Sixteen amendments to vote on (six state and ten county). I had researched it all in advance–as someone mentioned, Ballotpedia.org is useful.
My signature tends to be variable and I didn’t want to give any GOP operatives a chance to throw out my mail-in ballot; hence the in-person vote. Good to get it done!
Filled in the little bubbles on my mail-in ballot today. The races for office were easy. Massachusetts has six initiatives on this year’s ballot, and I went over the pros and cons with the information booklet from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, taking as much time as I wanted on each question, in the comfort of my home. Then drove over to town hall to drop off the ballot in the outside collector bin.
I saw that article also.
I checked my zip code, in what’s a pretty red area, though not the kind where you don’t dare put out a Harris sign. Harris donors outnumbered Trump donors about a time and a half to one. I was somewhat surprised.
However, the numbers who didn’t donate to either (or, most likely, to anybody) dwarfed the numbers who did. So I’m not sure how much it means.
As in the past, my county promptly snail-mailed me a letter saying that my ballot was received and superficially appears OK. They cannot legally open the ballot until election day, but presumably checked my signature and dating.
I see no advantage to the drop box and always mail mine.
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Mailed my ballot today.
I would have done it earlier but all the judicial retention stuff was crazy. It gave me a hand cramp.
My ballot is listed online as received by the elections board.
But I take no great joy in the numbers. We’re not counting all the funds that Trump supporters already poured into the PACs and grifts or otherwise into the coffers. Although a dark little flame burns in the core of my heart about how much of that has gone to his legal bills.
Still, I strongly suspect if we included all of Trump’s local “fundraising” it would be much higher than Harris. Although with it touching so many greedy hands… how much was, was supposed to be, or will be applied to the campaign…
Oh, I wasn’t thinking of the amount of money. I was thinking of the number of people.
Having just spent a week canvassing in Arizona, i would have suggested you vote “no” on those two, and abstain on all the other judges, rather than filing in all those circles.
Also, I’m delighted by your votes! That’s exactly what we asked voters to do. (Except for the other judges, and it’s not that i think the “yes” view were wrong, i just don’t think they were worth your time.)
Fair enough. I think you’re right in that Harris supporters (myself included) are a lot more QUIET and less demonstrative because, well, frankly the other side is constantly offering violence, and so it’s absolutely nice to see indications that even in red or purple areas we’re not alone.
Maybe I’m just frustrated because I keep seeing pickups going through town with one or more giant flags and Trump 2024 banner flying behind them. And some of them have much MORE threatening language applied. 
We got a nice voting guide in the mail from our local Democratic group (LD3 Dems) which was very helpful. They pointed out that all the state initiatives other than the abortion rights initiative were actually put onto the ballot by the legislature in an effort to bypass the governor’s desk (and I think to bury the abortion initiative in the middle or a pile of bullshit initiatives so that Election Day voters might miss it).
Here in Illinois we had an insane number of judicial retention elections on the ballot. It seemed like 100 but was almost certainly less. I went on the bar association page and made sure to vote NO on the handful they listed as unqualified but I just couldn’t leave the others blank. I would have mailed my ballot last week if not for feeling I had to fill it out completely.
I’m in Wisconsin, now, and they have a completely bullshit initiative to slightly change the language about who can vote. It’s on the ballot to attempt to drum up Republican turnout. The only impact of the change would be that if a municipality decided to extend the right to vote in local elections to 17 year olds or noncitizens, they would be blocked from doing so. No municipality currently allows either, nor is there a movement to do so. It’s purely a “scare” amendment.
Okay, I mailed my vote today. I guess that’s one less thing to regret about if I happen to die in the next two weeks.
Yeah. I did errands yesterday with my Harris (and no-hope House D candidate) buttons on. The only people who mentioned them were the ones at the library desk – one of whom after saying she liked the buttons said I was brave for wearing them. In this area I don’t think it takes any bravery, which I told her – I haven’t been given a hard time by anyone for those or the bumper stickers, people either ignore them or say something positive; and I see some (though minority) Harris yard signs and they seem to be staying up with no sign of anybody throwing things at the houses or whatever, though I did hear someone saying that their signs got repeatedly stolen so they hung a banner out the upstairs windows. Even having them stolen doesn’t seem to be a general problem, though. (No sense in my putting up yard signs, last place on dead end road.) But some people are spooked, not only where there’s obvious reason to be spooked, but also where there isn’t.
I’m actually seeing fewer of the pickup trucks flying huge Trump signs than I used to; though I think there’s about the same number of yard signs.
For this late phase of the campaign, I too am struck by the lack of pickup trucks w trump banners and, in our SoFL variant, boats festooned with trump signs and flag parading about on weekends, usually in a flotilla of a half dozen to a dozen.
In 2016 & 2020 these things were an irritating nuisance for at least month before the election day. Sorta like fireworks a month before 4th of July, a continuous pop-pop-pop of yahoos demonstrating their yahoo-ness.
Now they are rare enough to be remarked upon when seen. An encouraging sign.
Las weekend there was a Trump crowd on the roadside on Rte. 1 (main through route) here in Rehoboth Beach. Lots of people waving big Trump flags. Even one rainbow flag. Maybe two people bothered to “honk for Trump”.
I gave them a cheery wave with the finger that I use in such circumstances (they did back up traffic and I needed to get to Home Depot).
There are a few Harris/Walz signs in my area, nice to see. Also a few Trump signs. One guy who’s had a Trump flag for a couple years now has added several more within the last week. Keeping an eye on that dude!