Screw it. If my father can board a ship to fight the Axis powers,

[Ilsa]

then I can don my mask and go vote in person. The wait usually is not long, and my vote will be counted for Biden on election night, instead of not getting counted because trump found a way to shut down vote counting.

I'll have my wipes and lysol spray handy, too.

God, I hate dictator wannabees.

[NBachers]

1. My tradition: 1. Vote in person; 2. Reward myself with a Mission Street San Fran burrito.

That's how I'll be doing it this year.

[Blue_true]

18. What is a San Francisco burrito? Have eaten there, never heard of it. nt

[NBachers]

25. San Fran was to denote the location of Mission Street, not the style of burrito. They're all good!

[Blue_true]

28. Thanks. nt

[Trumpocalypse]

51. No ice cream?

[progressive nobody]

2. Believe it or not but my husband and had been worried Trump would do something

And we planned on voting at the poles. Before all this B.S. With the mail. Both of us will be masked. I will be gloved up and have hand sanitizer. I am also thinking of doing a good stock up weekend before or day of election. I am in the middle of readingS Trump's book. We are going to see a bully with massive power and enablers have a tantrum. Thankfully I am working from home and hopefully it won't change. But if it does I am saving time to take that week off. Maybe I am paranoid but I am going to be safe as possible. (On tablet sorry for any mistakes/suspicions I miss.

[Ilsa]

35. I take it you mean Mary Trump's book on him.

I can't help but think that if he's behind on election night, then he'll know he's toast, especially after all his squealing about mail-in ballots.

I'll be stocked up as well, in case the nazis come out to threaten us.

[bluescribbler]

63. Just because you're paranoid...

Doesn't mean Drumpf and Covid aren't out yo get you.

[doc03]

3. I vote early at the county board of elections. I have never had to wait one minute.

Check in, pick up my ballot and vote, in and out in less than 5 minutes. Of course I am in a rural county it may not be so easy elsewhere.
I go to Walmart, Kroger and buy take out food I wear a mask why should we be afraid to vote.

[LisaL]

6. That's exactly right. Big urban counties with one early voting place per county-well, you can

imagine that it's quite different from a small rural county.

[doc03]

8. The county I live in has 67000 people we have one early voting place. We have had a total

of 621 cases of COVID 1 in 109 residents and 26 deaths. I am not going to hide under the bed. We have had 1 in 109
people get the virus and this is one of the worst counties in Ohio for COVID.

[LisaL]

12. Well, my county has over a million people and one early voting place.

Do the math.

[doc03]

13. Wow! That is bad. nt

[LisaL]

14. It is bad.

It's actually a lot less people in the regular voting place on election day. But I already requested an absentee ballot. If they don't get my application (which was mailed) I will take it as a sign to vote in person on election day. If they do, and my ballot shows up as mailed, I can't vote in person on a regular ballot.

[Sogo]

43. You could always return it via UPS

and bypass USPS all together, that is if it’s not convenient for you to drop it off directly to your courthouse auditor’s office....

[LisaL]

50. Again, you have to follow the rules of the state you are in.

I don't see UPS delivery as an option listed in the rules. You can't bypass USPS all together, because they have to deliver the ballot to you. I can return it in person to the board of elections, but the idea of voting by mail is that you can avoid the crowds. Returning it in person to a crowded board of election doesn't work very well if your goal is to avoid the crowds (and again, I have to get it first).

[Blue_true]

27. Have you gone to your board of elections website and checked early voting locations?

I live in a red county of 400,000 in FLORIDA and we have around 12-14 early voting sites AND the Supervisor of Elections site. My county is one of the biggest land mass counties in the state of Florida.

[LisaL]

30. Board of election is the ONLY early voting location.

In OH, there is only one early voting location per county, regardless of the size of the county.

[doc03]

53. That sure isn't fair a county with 67000 has

one voting place while another with 1000000 still only has one. That makes it much easier to vote in the rural areas
that tend to vote more Republican.

[LisaL]

54. Yep, sure isn't fair.

Not sure who came up with those rules, but in OH there is only one early voting place per county, regardless of the size of the county.

[Blue_true]

22. My county is around 400,000 people. It has something like 15 early voting locations

around the county. It has even more locations on Election Day.

[LisaL]

23. You are not living in OH then.

[Blue_true]

31. I live in a red county in Florida (trending red-purple).

Have you gone to your county’s Supervisor of Elections page and checked for early voting locations? You’re right, I don’t live in Ohio, but for a million people, there should be more than one site.

[LisaL]

32. Should be, but there isn't.

OH allows for one early voting location per county (board of elections) no matter how big the county is. Clearly it is completely unfair and makes it a lot easier to vote in small rural counties than in big urban counties.

[yellowdogintexas]

41. Tarrant County Texas has 55 early voting locations

scattered all over the county. We have an extra week of early voting this year due to COVID

On Election Day we can vote at any voting location. We will have 245 open locations on election day.

[LuckyLib]

38. I live in an urban area of almost 3 million. It has never taken me longer than 5 minutes to vote.

Seeing folks in Georgia and Florida in line for hours in the heat and humidity makes my blood boil. Those people desperately trying to suppress the vote are working overtime and we ALL have to speak out -- even if we're not personally experiencing it.

I rant to congress people daily via email. I don't know if it gets anywhere, but I feel like I tried to have my say.

[LeftInTX]

46. I waited two and half hours to vote on October 24, 2016

I went to three different early voting locations and lines were just awful.

[mindfulNJ]

4. I will vote in person too.

We live in a very small town and we've never had to wait more than 10 minutes. Our tradition is to get up super early when the polls open, vote, go out to breakfast and go visit a historic place. In 2016 it was the Minuteman trail in Lexington/ Concord. We will probably just go home this time though.

[lpbk2713]

5. I won't get an "I Voted" sticker unless I vote in person.

As long as Trump doesn't cancel that out.

But seriously folks, I have always voted on election day since 1964. No need to change now.

[dflprincess]

24. I early voted in person for the primary & the clerk gave me an "I Voted" sticker (paper still on the

back so I can wear it tomorrow.)

She told me that they put one in every absentee ballot envelope they send out.

[lpbk2713]

34. I didn't know that.

Thanks.

[LeftInTX]

47. This was our sticker!

Our county had a high school student art contest to create a new sticker. So, they did!

[steve2470]

7. I think I will drive down to the local elections office and turn in my mail-in ballot in person

God knows when it will get there with the USPS so messed up by Trump.

[Blue_true]

33. Good idea. nt

[yellowdogintexas]

45. we only have one place to drop off ballots on election day

which is the county elections office.

We do not have a way for voters to drop off their vote by mail ballots at a voting station. The ballot has to be cleared and given to the election judge then we will let the voter vote in person.

I wish we did have a few more locations for folks to drop their ballots

[LeftInTX]

48. You can drop them off during early voting per Abbott's recent proclamation

I further suspend Section 86.006(a-1) of the Texas Election Code, for any election ordered or authorized to occur on November 3, 2020, to the extent necessary to allow a voter to deliver a marked mail ballot in person to the early voting clerk’s office prior to and including on election day.

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-issues-proclamation-extending-early-voting-period-for-november-3rd-election

So you can drop them off at the elections office during early voting.

[Lars39]

9. We early voted one year...two hour wait.

I’m in red state hell so I’m going to vote absentee.

[Lonestarblue]

10. I will vote in person, too.

We have early voting, so I hope people will take advantage of fewer people on those early days instead of waiting until the last minute and crowds. I just do not trust what Trump will do to the USPS.

[Karadeniz]

11. Well said!

[flying_wahini]

15. My husband and I are both poll workers and will be there.

65/66 years old and hell yeah, I’m gonna be there.

[Blue_true]

16. I totally agree with you.

My county had me set up for a mailin ballot at my request. When I voted by mail in the primary (election night is 8/18), I requested that I not get a mailin ballot for the General. I plan to go in and vote in person early. I don’t plan to wait until Election Day to vote and risk DeSantis playing stuff with voting machine allocation (though that won’t be a problem in my part of the county, we should have plenty of machines on Election Day).

I can’t believe some of the people that relish protesting in the streets saying that they will only vote by mail. That seems grossly inconsistent with their activism, in light of what Trump is trying to pull with the Post Office.

[LisaL]

19. Normally it's perfectly fine to vote by mail.

Of course it's clear that Trump will do anything to get elected. So there is nothing normal about this election.

[qwlauren35]

17. Our state is short on poll workers.

Many polling places are going to be closed. The lines are going to HORRENDOUS.

You know it's bad when our state pays people to work the polls, and we still can't get enough poll workers.

The pollworkers in Maryland are typically in their 60's and 70's, so they are probably scared to work the polls this year.

I was planning on voting in person, but now, I think I will drop off my ballot. I'm waiting for the Governor to announce the drop-off locations.

If I don't get my ballot on time, though, I will pitch a fit.

[LisaL]

20. That's my concern too.

Normally my voting place on election day is not full of people. But who knows what will happen this year? Thus I asked for absentee ballot. But now post office is being messed with. I might as well move to Belarus.

[ecstatic]

21. I'm leaning towards EARLY mail-in. We have brand new voting machines

and I don't want any issues with my vote being flipped to Kanye.

[yellowdogintexas]

44. if your brand new voting machines are like ours, no flipping happens.

It is a touch screen but after you make sure it is the way you want it, then you print it. If you find any error on it, you can turn it in for a new blank voting sheet. Anyway after it's printed, you take the ballot to the scanner and that's that.

You are not casting your vote from the selection machine; you cast it when you scan it.

[ecstatic]

61. Thanks, that's good to know.

I just looked into it and that is how our new system works too, it's just that the rollout was a disaster during our primaries in June.

Hmmm... now I'm back to being undecided on how I'll vote. Nothing beats seeing my vote counted in real time, but I'm eager to get started NOW.

[dflprincess]

26. I've been thinking I'll go in person

and for the same reason you said.

If my dad could enlist the day after Pearl Harbor and spend nearly 3 years in the Pacific, I can put on my mask, bring my hand sanitizer and vote at my polling place.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

29. Absentee for me.

I'm afraid of someone putting an "I Voted" sticker on me, loaded with the Covid cooties!

I'm kidding about that, but I'll probably vote absentee.

[LisaL]

55. That's what I want to do.

Already requested my ballot, but now starting to be concerned that post office is going to be really messed up by Trump and Co.

[IronLionZion]

36. They're using our big arena as a polling place here

because it can handle massive amounts of people with social distance.

Every Democrat should try to vote early if possible.

[yellowdogintexas]

42. that is what Kentucky did for their primary. In Louisville they had a 269,000 sq ft room

at the Exposition Center with free parking free Lyft and free public transportation. 5 days of early voting and every voter received an application to request vote by mail. They could literally vote "hundreds' according to CNN but easily 300 voting machines.

In Lexington they used the UK football stadium

[BadgerMom]

37. So much the same here.

My dad’s WWII experience has come to my mind, too. I can vote early in person. I’ll go on a weekday afternoon, masked, gloved and with several Lysol wipes. But then I know my vote will be tallied for Biden the night of 11/3.

[Volaris]

39. Dictator wannabes are soooo much worse than actual dictators, arent they?...

No commitment to Cause, amiright??

(On Edit) my grandfather was a first generation, american born GERMAN family immigrant. He spoke fluent german, and was well-served by that fact when his B17 was shot down
BOMBIMG THE FUCK out of real nazis in Germany. He was (so much as such a thing used to exist) a New Deal, Eisenhower Republican. Hes gone now, but I PROMISE you, hes wishing every heavenly curse that can be imagined upon Donald Trump.

[Eyeball_Kid]

40. And it isn't a surprise, is it? We can see the suppression.

I don't know why the entire nation isn't outraged. But they aren't.

I think that the entire nation will get outraged if millions get evicted and the market drops off a cliff. Once people get kicked out and are on the street, they likely would have given up all of their possessions and left them for the landlord to clean up and solicit for other renters. So the evicted have nothing and they'll have to re-build and they'll know that Trump did this to them. Amid all of this chaos, which is Trump's unique skill at creating, a pandemic is raging and killing off those who cannot physically contain the virus.

This is what we have in store for us in a few short weeks unless the GOP and Trump stop playing with themselves get to work.

[Ilsa]

49. Why don't they understand that saving democracy depends

on us? That eventually, our ability to work, have a home, even keep our civil rights, depends on us up-ending this monstrous administration before he is dug-in and the federal agencies are chock full of his ignorant, selfish supplicants?

[Maxheader]

52. I'd like to...really..

But I can't with the asthma...

[Ilsa]

57. I know, we can't help it sometimes. It's too

dangerous, and some here have too many responsibilities to others.

[BComplex]

56. I'm going to vote in person. I have a choice between two awful options:

1) Vote in person EARLY VOTING, hoping not to run into a swarm of unmasked voters, and hope that russians aren't hacking the computers that tabulate the votes.

2) Vote by mail and gamble that the post office actually delivers my piece of mail, or that somehow the republicans in our state don't remove all the official looking Dept. of Elections envelopes from certain heavily democratic voting areas.

20 years after the 2000 election, which was STOLEN by the republican supreme court, we would have stabilized voting in the un-United States. This is a travesty.

[Bobstandard]

58. My dad flew 20 bomber missions

If he could do that, I can do vote in person if it comes to that.

[Ilsa]

62. Yep. I want to live up this legacy of high expectations.

Blessings on your dad's soul for helping save the world.

[hunter]

59. My father and my father in law were active duty during the Korean War.

It was just stupid luck they didn't end up on the ground in Korea.

My father in law was on a ship to Korea, a Navy corpsman assigned to the Marines, just as the war ended.

My dad was a nearsighted Radar O'Reilly Army medical clerk.

My father-in-law was a guinea pig for nuclear weapons testing.

They put themselves in danger.

What did Trump do?

[AllaN01Bear]

60. i will vote by mail for mr . biden and ms harris . drop it off at county election hq.