Santa Clara is apparently the other one, since ours is postage-paid as well.
I didn’t count the choices but there were dozens. 5 total sides of an approximately legal-sized ballot. Ugh.
I ended up voting for Clinton. And while there’s never been a candidate in any election that I could say I was proud of voting for, Hillary impressed me enough that she leaped far past the “lesser of two evils” threshold. She’s competent and avoids most of the populist stupidity on the far left.
A short selection of propositions:
Yes on marijuana legalization
Yes on ending the death penalty (I have nothing against it in principle, but it is too expensive and too permanent)
No on background checks on ammunition. I’m not some crazed pro-gun advocate, but this one seems really, really dumb to me.
For most of the others, I voted for maintaining the status quo, which in some cases meant a Yes.
I voted in Utah on Saturday, dropped the ballot off at the post office. Voted for Clinton, so when you see that one vote for her here in Utah you know who cast it.
I leave the house for work early and get home late so I won’t be able to get to the local elementary school to vote in person. Just waiting for my absentee ballot via email.
When it does arrive, I will be voting against the Dem-backed ballot measure forcing unexpectedly vacated appointed positions to be filled by a member of the previous office-holder’s political party, because that’s some trivial bullshit.
Hillary for prez
Chris Van Hollen (D) for Senate
Anthony Brown (D) for Congress
Only other thing on my ballot is a board of education member running unopposed.
Since I’ll be a pollworker on election day and not at the precinct where I vote, I voted early. Last Wednesday was the first day for early voting here in Ohio, so I went in after work. When I arrived around 4:30, the person at the desk said there had already been 300-400 early voters. No idea about the rest of them, but I was proud to vote for Hillary for President, Strickland (D) for Senate and Steven Fought (D) for House of Representatives. Since this is a very red county, the local races were almost all unopposed Republicans. So I left large portions of the ballot blank.
Actually it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Utah actually flipped. Many of the state’s leading political figures, all Republican, have condemned Trump for the views expressed in the hot mic video.
I’ll be voting Friday. The polls open 1/2 hour before I have to be at work on Election Day (but I live about 45 minutes away from my job), and close 1/2 hour before I get of.
Ohio - Voted last Friday for all Democrats down the ballot.
The location for early voting is a former Kohl’s department store, now the Franklin County Board of Elections. As such it has a very, very large parking lot surrounding the building. The lot was fairly full on a Friday afternoon but we moved through the process to cast our ballot quickly.
My wife and I both noticed that there was not a single pop-up tent for any Republican candidate including Trump. There were a few Trump signs in the entrance way but overwhelmingly it was all Democratic Party candidate signs and booths. We also did not see a single Republican volunteer working the parking lot but there were Democratic Party volunteers every 10 feet it seemed.
Wow! They would be arrested for that here in Minnesota.
State law prohibits any election signs, posters, etc. within 100 feet of the entrance to the polling place*. And people can’t wear political buttons, stickers, T-shirts, hats, etc. within the polling place – the election judges will ask them to remove these, or to turn their shirt inside out while in the polling place.
*Technically, this doesn’t apply if your house is within 100 feet of the polling place, and the lawn sign is on your property. But the political parties always ask their supporters living that close to cover their signs on election day, otherwise voters get offended.
I voted today. I’m going to visit my mother just before the election, and I don’t want to risk some unforeseen circumstance keeping me from getting back in time to vote.
I voted to Clinton/Kaine for president
for John Gregg for governor
for Evan Bayh for senator
I did, however, vote for the Republican candidate for superintendent of schools. She’s actually very liberal, and way better of special ed. than the other candidate, plus she has experience.
On the two questions, I voted against expanding hunting rights, and for increasing county taxes to expand public transportation (gawd, do we need better public transportation).
Yeah, similar if not same laws here. Perhaps I wasn’t clear, the building is a former Kohl’s department store and it has a large parking lot. Everything mentioned was well outside the 100 foot threshold. All the volunteers and campaign folks were outside the building and maintaining the appropriate distance from the entrance.
I just filled in my vote-by-mail ballot. As others have noted in my city (San Francisco) there were 17 state propositions, 25 local propositions, and a relatively small number of electoral offices to vote for. I will mail it tomorrow.
As someone mentioned about Santa Clara County, SF also has an online tool to tell whether your mail-in ballot was received and counted, and you even get an opportunity to fix problems (if, for example, you forgot to sign your envelope) before the polls close. I don’t know if they had this before, but I sure like the idea of it.
Mailed in my absentee ballot a while ago. Lots of people to vote for. I went for Clinton/Kaine, of course.
I also voted for Patrick Murphy whom I’m not particularly excited about - one term in the House isn’t much experience and he only graduated from college ten years ago - but on the other hand fuck you Marco Rubio. Show up and do your goddamn job once in a while.
Florida has a medical marijuana item on the ballot which is apparently looking likely to pass, which I suppose is good.
