Thank you for the tip. I didn’t see that anywhere on the State or County web sites.
I finally received a text from the California Secretary of State acknowledging receipt of the ballot I deposited over a week ago. It’s never taken that long.
Oh wow. In my state, they look to see if they’ve accepted a mail in ballot from you if you haven’t, you can view and they’ll throw away the mailed ballot if it shows up. If they’ve already accepted your mail in ballot, they’ll tell you you’ve already voted, just as if you showed up twice on election day.
I sent in my mail-in ballot yesterday afternoon. I also mailed the 200 postcards to strangers in Ohio (registered Democrats who don’t always vote) to remind and urge them to vote. My little bit for the effort.
I put my mail-in ballot in the blue box at the post office yesterday, here in Ohio.
I’ve been voting by mail for the last few years. I keep getting paranoid that I will somehow miss or even FORGET to vote on election day so I want to get it done early.
Our county is supposed to be mailing out ballots today. I’ve signed up for text alerts regarding the status of my ballot so hopefully I see something later today.
I don’t plan on mailing in my ballot, it will be delivered by hand. Sometime before the end of the month I have to go to the county courthouse anyway to do my vehicle tag renewals, and the election window is directly across the lobby from there. So I’ll just drop it off then.
Yesterday, first day of early voting in Georgia. 340K in-person voters. Thanks to the poll-workers, I was in and out in 40 minutes.
Unlike 2020 & 2022, nobody was wearing red MAGA caps. 12:30 on a weekday, the hundreds of people in line were all boomer uggos like myself. Those with canes and walkers went head-of-the-line.
Nobody resembled central casting’s version of a Trump supporter nor a white suburban liberal, but since this is a lavender red county, I couldn’t help but scan the hall to choose the person whose time I’d best wasted by canceling out their vote.
Delayed due to trip back home, I only filled out my ballot today, and it’ll go to the secure drop box along with my wife’s on Friday.
Since none of the Republicans on the ballot, even those I would consider skilled, can be bothered to even question Trump in the most spineless of manners, it was easier than ever to vote straight (D) across the board.
I just got a notice from BallotTrax that my ballot had been received and counted, in just over 24 hours from when I dropped it in the mail slot inside the PO. I felt more secure using the PO than a drop box, I don’t know why.
My husband and I have our mail-in ballots sealed and ready to go. The town hall has a drop box for them so they don’t have to go through the P.O. Not that I do not fully trust our local post officer (Kevin). He has only to walk a half block to the town hall.
Th PO did their duty 2+ weeks ago with unaccustomed alacrity and my ballot is confirmed in the counting process’s in-basket.
The counting was supposed to start Mon but that was a holiday so Tue was Day 1 for counting. No progress yet for me. Bad dog!!
One begins to become a smidgen skeptical but one has patience.
Nominations closed last week in our provincial election, so they started printing the ballots on Monday, even though it was Thanksgiving.
Last election during Covid I voted by post, but I think I’ll do it in person this week.
I got my voter card for election week, starting October 22. I’ve got a choice of four voting stations next week: three churches (one Anglican, one Catholic and one United), plus a local museum. The museum is in easy walking distance so I think I’ll just walk over one evening next week and vote.
The final day of voting is Monday October 28 at the Anglican Church only.
Today I learned. Thank you. 
My local pickup / delivery person seems full of alacrity albeit overworked. But in this case I suppose it’s the celerity of USPS (or at least our local branch office thereof) as a whole that I should be praising.
In a long line. 1st day of early voting here in NC.
And done!
Yaay for you!
As to me …
Sometime between dinnertime last night and just now the status on my long-ago mailed ballot changed from “received” to “counted”. Which is the final status they display. So I’m done too.
Now I just have to hope it stays counted, is included in the total, and further that it was read correctly and those readings aren’t retroactively changed.
Here in Florida, as in much of the USA, there are many things we can’t take for granted as much as we’d hope reasonably expect in a mature, functioning, well-funded democracy.
I’ll do my early voting in N.C. sometime next week, once the lines are a little shorter.
I drive by an early voting location (a public library) 4-5 times a week, and they were jammed today, the line extended well outside the building, even though there’s a long hallway inside, the parking lot was packed and there were cars parked in the grass on both sides of the narrow roadway leading to the place.
When I was at yoga class this morning everyone was talking about voting, and it seemed like over half the people in the class were going to the polls after. They really wanted to vote on Day One, in spite of the long lines.
I found the high level of enthusiasm very encouraging.
My ballot’s been counted, I’m just watching for my husband’s now.
Yes, I do too.
Took me an hour and half, but I also voted. A poll worker told us the line had been long all day (I got there about 12:30). I haven’t seen this since Obama/McCain here.