# Voting 2026 - Good, Bad, and Ugly **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 9, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voting-2026-good-bad-and-ugly/1033700 "2026-10-09T16:24:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voting-2026-good-bad-and-ugly/1033700/70 "2026-10-17T11:17:25Z")
So far, 70 posts in, it seems most of the news is good, not bad nor ugly. One hopes that continues. One is not entirely optimistic. But there is this fresh Pit thread to provide equal time for the Ugly POV: > [@I foolishly thought I could rely on Georgia's Secretary of State to do the job and I would get to vote in this November's election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-foolishly-thought-i-could-rely-on-georgias-secretary-of-state-to-do-the-job-and-i-would-get-to-vote-in-this-novembers-election/1033907): > > All the information I’m supposed to get so I can vote absentee overseas is purportedly at [https://www.securevotega.com/](https://www.securevotega.com/). Yeah, right. On top of that being down hard, if I somehow manage to get the ballot via email, I still have to print it out and do some magical incantations and the Dinosaurs Mating Dance (seriously, it’s like the instructions for one of the tests Matthew Dodson had to take in Space Cadet) before snail mailing (or EMS) the thing back to the office in charge of elections for the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voting-2026-good-bad-and-ugly/1033700)._