Voting discussion thread

[Go Bama]

He voted by mail, like I will doing.

Me too. I mailed my ballot in last week.

 

[Bazza]

Me too. I mailed my ballot in last week.

I'm waiting to watch tonight's interview before making up my mind.....

 

[bamacpa]

Your down ballot votes may still be meaningful!

In a heavily partisan state, probably not.

 

[lowend]

We need ONE election day -- president, school board, tax referenda, milk man -- do it ALL on one day. We waste inordinate amounts of money in the US having so many elections.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I'm so sorry to see that. Mine are toddlers so I'm assuming I may never know how they feel about voting. My kids are both very into politics as is the rest of my family. So were my parents. Not that all of us agree on everything or ever did, for that matter. My children seem to be on the same page as I am.

My daughters' politics pretty much reflect mine, although both, Rachel until she passed, are both considerably to the left of me. My son's politics are similar. The grands are a different matter...

 

[PaulD]

Dropped our absentee ballots at the Houston County (Georgia) Board of Elections office. Didn't want to worry about the USPS.

Yes, Georgia blew past the 2020 record for the first day of early voting--over 300,000 statewide. As of this evening the state website reports that 605K have voted or 8.4 of those registered to vote.

 

[92tide]

Dropped our absentee ballots at the Houston County (Georgia) Board of Elections office. Didn't want to worry about the USPS.

Yes, Georgia blew past the 2020 record for the first day of early voting--over 300,000 statewide. As of this evening the state website reports that 605K have voted or 8.4 of those registered to vote.

my wife and i plan to go to our early voting location friday at lunch

 

[PaulD]

According to the Georgia SoS web site, about 677K have voted. That's 9.7% of active voters.

As of 7 pm Eastern, it's up to 882,696, 12.3% of active voters.

 

[Bazza]

Hispanic voter registration in NC increased by 79,000 since 2020, it was just reported!

 

[PaulD]

Georgia is up to 1.184M voters or 16.5% of active voters, including two from us in Houston County.

 

[92tide]

Georgia is up to 1.184M voters or 16.5% of active voters, including two from us in Houston County.

i went this morning. my wife will go sometime next week

 

[NationalTitles18]

3/4 got our ballots in the mail this week.

 

[arthurdawg]

Whoever wins the presidency, I'm rooting for Team Gridlock overall. Neither party is going to reduce government spending. Government will continue to get bigger. We're the world's largest debtor nation by far, and it doesn't seem to register how dumb cutting our own throat is.

My personal belief as well. We need a serious discussion about how we want to address the deficit and then tackle the debt. I think it can be separated into two issues.

We can't kick it down the road or grow the economy past numbers like that.

And neither party seems to have any recognition of the problem. Not too mention that even the most anti-gov segments of the population want their stack when they want it.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Mrs. NT18 and I voted today.

We got our ballots in the mail this week.

Today in the comfort of our home we researched the ballot initiatives until we were satisfied and talk it over before deciding how to vote.

I went out for pizza at the local place and dropped the ballots in the drop box around the corner from the pizza place.

Very easy. Very convenient. Very secure.

 

[Bazza]

Filled my mail-in ballot out this AM and it's in my mailbox - flag up! God Bless America!

 

[jthomas666]

Georgia is up to 1.184M voters or 16.5% of active voters, including two from us in Houston County.

Now up to 1.9 Million! Just over 25%

 

[Maudiemae]

We just early voted here in Palm Beach County. Oddly enough, at the library right across the street from Trump's golf course where the last shooting attempt was. I have never had a hard time voting there but, wow, this go round was crazy! Extremely crowded. One line for paper ballot voting, which is what we prefer, and one for electronic voting. But it was not made very clear as to which line was which and both lines were at the same door. No signs, no rope to separate and to top it off, one machine went down so that voting paper ballot was slowed tremendously. I called the SOE when we got back just to let them know that this particular location seemed a bit discombobulated. I hope they get that sorted out! Confusion at polls is all we need to add to the conspiracy theory crud!

 

[Bazza]

We just early voted here in Palm Beach County. Oddly enough, at the library right across the street from Trump's golf course where the last shooting attempt was. I have never had a hard time voting there but, wow, this go round was crazy! Extremely crowded. One line for paper ballot voting, which is what we prefer, and one for electronic voting. But it was not made very clear as to which line was which and both lines were at the same door. No signs, no rope to separate and to top it off, one machine went down so that voting paper ballot was slowed tremendously. I called the SOE when we got back just to let them know that this particular location seemed a bit discombobulated. I hope they get that sorted out! Confusion at polls is all we need to add to the conspiracy theory crud!

Thanks for your excellent report, Maudie.....glad you were able to exercise your right to vote in America today!

That sucks about the chaos. Why in the world these folks can't get stuff figured out by now is beyond me!

Much respect to you for contacting and reporting what you experienced.

Curious if you were required to show ID or not.

Thanks!!!

 

[Maudiemae]

Thanks for your excellent report, Maudie.....glad you were able to exercise your right to vote in America today!

That sucks about the chaos. Why in the world these folks can't get stuff figured out by now is beyond me!

Much respect to you for contacting and reporting what you experienced.

Curious if you were required to show ID or not.

Thanks!!!

Yes, we had to show ID. I had my driver license ready. I was surprised at that level of disorganization! When I called about it, the woman I spoke with seemed surprised, too, but glad I called.

 

[gtowntide]

My grand daughter and I voted this afternoon. The line wasn’t bad at all, we were in and out in about an hour! It was her first presidential election and I’m very proud of her!