I have voted! (Love early voting)

[BoomerD]

In person, day of.

And showing ID.

That would be fine with me, but Washington state is 100% vote by mail.

 

[pete6032]

I voted by mail last week. My vote for president is useless because I live in a royal blue state.

 

[Amused]

Dropped my ballot in the box last week. It's already been received and counted.

 

[outriding]

I will vote day of. I live right next to where I vote and can walk there and I never had more than a 3 minute wait…

I also work from home and my Tuesdays are not super busy..

To be honest I would like someone to hassle me to “make sure I am not committing voter fraud”. Becuase I would sue the shit out of them..

 

[trenchfoot]

Ours coming in the mail sometime next week. From previous campaigns, I get a kick when certain candidates I favor come knocking at my door late in the season, start delivering their pitch and I cut them off by telling them "hey I already voted for you and it's in the mail delivery system as we speak". That look of relief and satisfaction on their faces is pretty amazing and amusing to behold. Feel a bit sorry for these bastards hot footing it all over the place trying to make things go their way. Once in awhile I'd open my door to a candidate that had a tired sweaty look on her face and I'd offer 'um an ice cold bottle of water and you can see their faces get lit up with appreciation after they've previously had so many doors slammed in their faces. Props to any and all of them for running the gauntlet that way.

 

[Franz316]

Yep sent in and counted in Florida

 

[BoomerD]

I just checked...our ballots here get mailed out delivered on Thursday...today…18 days before the election by state law.

 

[nOOky]

I will be voting in person, I did not sign up for mail in voting so I have to. It will be easy though because we have a very small township and most of the geezers vote early, I vote after work.

 

[Amused]

Dropped my ballot in the box last week. It's already been received and counted.

But I'm in CA so... I just added to the pile of blue here.

When I can no longer enjoy road cycling and skiing, I'm going to re-retire to a swing state.

 

[soulcougher73]

I will be voting Dem down the ballet tomorrow on my Friday off, in person.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I usually just drop my CA ballot in the mail, but I was out and about doing other errands, and the County Registrar's office is about two blocks from COSTCO. COSTCO was open for business on Monday, but the county office was closed for the "Columbus Day" and "Columbus killed the Natives" holiday. It was a GREAT day in So-Cal! It was still 10:30 AM and the sky was overcast, there was a fog, and the temperature was almost below 60F.

Anyway, when I pulled up and parked at the county building, there was a knot of people gathered around an imposing white metal box with a slot in it, and I dropped my ballot in there. Lots of cheerful camaraderie.

I KNOW which way the majority will go in CAlifornia, and I'd take a wager that the Blue percentage will be higher than 70 when it had once been 68-32 favoring Clinton over the Criminal. The Red MAGA in this state are just a bunch of cheerleaders.

But I did my duty, whatever the Electoral College results give us. People in other states excuse themselves to say "they don't know Kamala Harris", but I went to a big local shindig where she made an appearance sometime between 2007 and 2010. Happy with her as CA Atty General, US Senator and VP.

I just wish we all had the same concept of "good government" and we could accept the fact that we don't get what we want as individuals in some smorgasbord approach to government. I just don't want a criminal running my country.

I got it all "right", but for one of those CA Propositions for which there was good advice contrary to my ballot mark. It was not a serious mistake.

 

[hal2kilo]

Just filled out my ballot this am. Can't put it into the drop box until tomorrow. Fn Kitsap county Democratic party must have died. Local state legislator is running unopposed this year. Contributed to the last Democratic candidate which lost last time. Oh, finally shot $50 to Tammy Baldwin's race. I wish I thought money really made a difference.

 

[balloonshark]

I don't trust the right-wing fascists in my area so I'll be voting in person.

 

[nOOky]

Just filled out my ballot this am. Can't put it into the drop box until tomorrow. Fn Kitsap county Democratic party must have died. Local state legislator is running unopposed this year. Contributed to the last Democratic candidate which lost last time. Oh, finally shot $50 to Tammy Baldwin's race. I wish I thought money really made a difference.

You're in Washington and you donated to a Wisconsin race? Just curious.

 

[MrPickins]

You're in Washington and you donated to a Wisconsin race? Just curious.

I've donated to a few campaigns outside of my state this cycle. Control of the Legislature is almost as important as who is president.

 

[hal2kilo]

I just checked...our ballots here get mailed out delivered on Thursday...today…18 days before the election by state law.

Some came a day early like mine.

 

[nakedfrog]

I just checked...our ballots here get mailed out delivered on Thursday...today…18 days before the election by state law.

Ours showed up on the 11th ￣\＿(シ)＿/￣

 

[kage69]

We already did ours. They went straight into the ballot drop box in the town office. If you live in a red state or rural area I suggest you exercise some caution and treat that ballot like it's a wad of c notes. No mail.

Keep in mind all the contempt these desperate, brainwashed assholes had for democracy and their fellow Americans back in 2020. It has been maintained, even enhanced. Caution is warranted.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Mailed in last week.

 

[Muse]

I started my ballot, which arrived over a week ago but the voter information guide for local candidates and issues hasn't come yet. It seems that our registrar of voters is grossly incompetent. I may have to rely on other resources. The mailers from candidates and initiative advocates are close to worthless, as usual.

 

[trenchfoot]

Faster than a speeding lie out of Trump's mouth! More powerful than FOX Bullshit! Able to leap millions of MAGATs in a single bound! Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's my fucking ballot with Harris & Walz checked off!

 

[sdifox]

Me too /shifty Canadian eyes

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Just filled out my ballot this am. Can't put it into the drop box until tomorrow. Fn Kitsap county Democratic party must have died. Local state legislator is running unopposed this year. Contributed to the last Democratic candidate which lost last time. Oh, finally shot $50 to Tammy Baldwin's race. I wish I thought money really made a difference.

I suppose the chances are good that you're in Illinois. Illinois -- a Blue state -- has many red parts.

Money makes some difference to provide candidate exposure. It pays for rallies, "town halls" and media or advertisements. Personally, I think that a very large minority of voters suffer from lack of exposure to regular news -- meaning that they simply abjure watching mainstream media as they use FOX and conservative social media exclusively. I had proven to myself with observations I'd made -- never reported in the media which otherwise exposes FOX mendacity -- that FOX deliberately misleads their audience or base -- with deceitful practices considered to be outside the realm of objective media and in full support of FOX as advocacy media.

Why do we wonder why GOP voters often say "They don't know Kamala"? I think it would prove something to examine FOX for reporting about Kamala over the last eight years or particularly the last four of them. I have simply dropped FOX because I discovered too much deceit on my own to waste my time with them as an actual news source -- regardless of their "advocacy" or presentation of cross-verifiable fact. I wouldn't listen to media seeming to support Democratic causes if they were as deceitful as FOX. And to this day, no Trump sympathizer has been able to show me anything as equally deceitful on MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and the long-established networks. I certainly haven't found anything of significance, except with FOX.

The Harris Walz campaign is putting paid advertisements on FOX. Every little dollar counts, so consider your small-donor contributions as worth something in the campaign.

The purpose of Democracy, as much as we'd hope that a majority of voters would always make the correct choice for the Nation's welfare short and long term, is primarily to give people the sense that they participated -- win or lose. Thus they should accept election outcomes, particularly when there is so little evidence of fraud in so many different jurisdictions and levels of government. People comfortable in their acceptance no less than their sense of winning assure that life goes on as "advise and consent", as they accept election results. If I didn't have a vote, I'd grab a pitchfork and start filling beer bottles with gasoline and rags.

 

[hal2kilo]

Well, cognitive dissonance is a real thing. I just experienced it this morning. Doing my morning walk with my ballots (mine and my son's) in hand, ran into a guy who walks his dog every day and we talk about sports for the most part. He's see's my ballot and says you on the way to the drop box? I say yea. Who you voting for? Was thinking what you want the whole run down, but I assumed he meant the big one. So, I say Harris and he says he's voting to for Trump. He asks me why and I said I couldn't stand another four years of his BS. So I ask him why, and of course he says immigration. I really, don't want to discuss this anymore because, I'm very disappointed in him considering HE PAINTED IN RED PAINT ON HIS CARPORT HANG PUTIN, SUPPORT UKRAINE.

 

[Indus]

Well, cognitive dissonance is a real thing. I just experienced it this morning. Doing my morning walk with my ballots (mine and my son's) in hand, ran into a guy who walks his dog every day and we talk about sports for the most part. He's see's my ballot and says you on the way to the drop box? I say yea. Who you voting for? Was thinking what you want the whole run down, but I assumed he meant the big one. So, I say Harris and he says he's voting to for Trump. He asks me why and I said I couldn't stand another four years of his BS. So I ask him why, and of course he says immigration. I really, don't want to discuss this anymore because, I'm very disappointed in him considering HE PAINTED IN RED PAINT ON HIS CARPORT HANG PUTIN, SUPPORT UKRAINE.

Yeah.. this whole immigration thing has changed a lot of people's minds.. people we thought were solid Dems.

Don't be surprised if Trump gets a bump in the ballot box mysteriously!