Got another early morning text message (1:35 am) saying that my ballot was accepted by the election office on Tues Oct 29. Again, I dropped it off in person on Wed Oct 23, so it’s odd that it took a week to get the notification. Maybe it’s a sign that so many people are early voting that they’re just that backed up!
As someone who got sent to those calls I second that.
Most of the issues were during the primary. The Republican Party was pretty much non-existent there. The issues were always between two Democratic factions in the local elections. Stupid shit that you would expect from children. Electioneering 98 feet from the polling place until the police were called. “I wasn’t over the line.” Ten minutes later you are heading back because they are over the line again. Has anyone in history changed their mind because someone was holding a sign 100 feet from a polling location?
It’s illegal here for police to be at the polling locations. It used to be an extra off duty job but now they have to pull active units off the street to respond to calls there. Huge waste of time and resources.
I have changed my mind about minor local races after talking to the people holding signs outside the pulling place. But does it matter whether they are just within or just outside the “no politicking” line? I can’t imagine that has ever mattered.
I dropped off my ballot at the county Office of Education office close to where I work yesterday. Amazingly enough, I got a notification in the mail later that afternoon from the county that my vote had been received…oh, wait, no, it was my property tax bill. Actually, the county does send out emails when ballots are received, and there is even a running statewide count in California, updated daily; as of early 10/29, about 4.8 million ballots had already been cast.
I expect a mostly unsurprising vote with no monkey business here in the home of Gary Hart, but there are a few ballot votes that may prove interesting due to the dichotomy in the state.
Proposition 80: Would ensure that private schools could get public funding at the expense of public schools. Supported mostly by people that hate free public education for all children.
Proposition 127: Prohibits the trophy hunting of mountain lions, bobcats and lynx. Many people here do not understand how food webs work. Add to that, we have a vocal contingent of voters that think God gave them dominion to shoot animals in the face from a distance to prove how brave human are. Note: I do not oppose shooting animals for food, but I vehemently oppose trophy hunting because what’s the point.
Proposition 131: Adds ranked-choice voting. Really good? Not really. It adds jungle primaries and other election rules so that Kent Thiry could maybe get a public office. When Lauren Boebert and the Democratic Party both agree it’s a bad idea, you seriously need to consider voting no.
ETA: Over 1/4 of Colorado voters (me included) have already voted.
Tennessee has early voting.
I dropped off mine the very first day allowed.
In my state (Nebraska) I think it is mostly driven by people who want taxpayers to pay for their children’s private schooling that is dictated by that parent’s chosen religious doctrine or aversion to cultural or linguistic diversity or inclusion of students with special needs, disabilities or varying intellectual abilities.
It’s a “I’ll pick my kid’s private school and control the curriculum, now you (everybody else) pay the tuition.”
Reports are that in New Jersey 250,000 voters came out for the first weekend of early voting and 600,000 out of 1,000,000ish mail in ballots have been received. Both up from 2020. Bad news is that in the hotly contested purplish red 7th district registered Republican votes are outpacing Democratic votes. Republicans are getting over their aversion to anything other than same day voting.
In line now to early vote in Michigan. They say it’s about a 90 minute wait.
Is that near the Department of Redundancy Department? 
Elections office notified this morning receipt of my ballot. (Voting my stateside address as I have the last few rounds; depending on outcomes stateside and in PR I may return to the old hometown after year’s end but at the very least I have the satisfaction of acting against DJT while I could)
Not very complicated ballot - presidential, Senate, US Rep, one amendment question, Mayor running unopposed, 3 School Board members running unopposed, City Council at least had more candidates running than seats in play.
No, because it really is the office location for the county’s “Office of Education”
Republicans are mailing in ballots in Arizona, too. I think the Republican leadership has realized that discouraging early voting is a losing strategy.
Ok, I’ve done my part. Donated, wrote postcards, voted. I’m planning on working a shift or two at the local Dem office this weekend to top it all off.
Mission accomplished. I now have an I Voted sticker next to my Harris button. (The buttons were invisible inside my pocket while I was in the polling place.)
It’s the fourth day of early voting here (out of, I think, 9); and it was well on in the afternoon but also well before 5:00. There wasn’t a long line; but there was a line. And there were a batch of people coming in behind me, also. The other election or two for which I did early voting in person there was almost nobody there.
This isn’t necessariiy a good sign in this area. But it’s possible that it’s just that a lot of people in both parties have shifted to early voting; so it might not be a bad sign, either.
Everything went entirely smoothly; which is what I was expecting in this area.
I voted this past Saturday at a local government center near where I live. It was not particularly busy though almost all of the parking spots were taken, though there is not a lot of parking, at least right next to the building. I managed to avoid the party tents to get inside and had essentially no wait. I showed my id, got a ballot, filled it out, slid it into the box, got my sticker and got out. There were people in front of me and behind me, but not really a line, just kind of following the signs to get to the right spot.
This is, I think, the second or third time that I have done early voting in this way. I did it once by mail and before that in person at the nearby school, but now with several weekends where they have early in person voting, that is the route I take. Now it is simply a matter of stockpiling whatever is needed to celebrate or mourn.
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I did early in-person voting today. On the way in an older activist tried to talk me into voting no on abortion rights. She said it would lead to gender reassignment surgery for children or something Another asked me to vote for a particular school board candidate. I think I did.
After that excitement, voting was simple. There was a short line and the whole process took about 20 minutes
Got the text message confirming ballot receipt last night. Six days after dropping it in the mail slot here in Delaware. Next text should be signature verification, then tabulation.
I voted early Monday morning during a brief lull at the beginning of my two day shift as an election judge here in Carroll County, Maryland.
Per the state, early voting numbers are way up and that was certainly true where I was. For about a ten hour stretch both days, lines were significant and wait times 20-30 minutes long per voters I asked.
Republican participation rates are running ahead of Dems by a few percentage points. Numbers of first time voters and same day registrations seemed significantly higher.
I have more anecdotal observations. AMA.
For Republican’s here, that’s an added bonus. Their first goal is to destroy public education and their history of marginalizing white Christian students. That last part is from an actual quote from my former state representative.