# Is anyone here voting early, if your area offers it?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067 "2018-10-16T23:05:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/121 "2018-11-06T13:13:54Z")

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Voted by absentee a while ago. Got an email confirming receipt.

I prefer absentee voting so that I can investigate all the candidates and ballot initiatives one by one rather than the usual “Oh crap I don’t know who to vote for for Mosquito Control Commissioner - I’ll just leave it blank” thing.

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**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/122 "2018-11-06T22:17:24Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong, and Republicans had it right all along. I never knew that voter fraud was so easy, and so much _fun_. I’ve voted four times so far: the first time under my real name and registration (obviously), and then an hour later when I switched around my first and middle names. The next day I decided to have some fun and identified myself as Mickey Mouse. They waved me through without a glance, so later that afternoon I showed up again as “Ratón Miguelito,” wearing a poncho and a sombrero. Not only did they let me vote, they gave me an extra ballot so I could vote for _mi abuelita_, whom I told them was housebound with watery diarrhea.
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> I figure I can get at least ten more votes in tomorrow— maybe a baker’s dozen. With my “OFFICIAL ELECTION INSPECTOR” t-shirt, reflective vest and hard hat, I’m sure they’ll allow me to “perform routine maintenance” on a few of the machines, **wink wink**. I’ve got a car trunk full of costumes and I’m free all day. At least once, I plan to go in dressed as both ends of a pantomime horse. That’s two votes right there.

Have you done a search on this yet, to find out how many alt-right sites are quoting it?

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-here-voting-early-if-your-area-offers-it/823067/123 "2018-11-07T01:47:23Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong, and Republicans had it right all along. I never knew that voter fraud was so easy, and so much _fun_…

There’s such a fine line between voter fraud and doing your patriotic duty.

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