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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
20. I am in Florida.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 09:56 PM
Jul 2018

My county uses paper ballots that are scanned and stored. I feel safe doing in person early voting. When I walk in, my ID is checked and I am handed a ballot and asked if I want paper verification that I got a ballot.

The biggest problem here is people not voting. We recently had a mayoral race, the progressive lost by less than 900 votes out of something like 10,000-20,000 votes. The polling place that I went to to vote, which should have favored her big was like a morgue. I asked the lady handing out the ballot whether many people were voting and she said no. I see posters writing about votes being changed when the largest problem by far is getting people on our side to fucking vote to begin with. When people don't vote, they obstruct themselves, republicans and Russians don't have to do shit because their job is made easy.

Voting by mail [View all] coeur_de_lion Jul 2018 OP
Most of my state Oregon is by mail marlakay Jul 2018 #1
One (Republican) paper vote scandal in OR that I know of flibbitygiblets Jul 2018 #3
My CA county votes by mail only underthematrix Jul 2018 #2
I think you misunderstand the purpose of my post coeur_de_lion Jul 2018 #4
Oh. Okay. So you're asking underthematrix Jul 2018 #5
Ultimately, a mail in ballot is a piece of paper leftieNanner Jul 2018 #26
I'm in Florida, but was in Indiana before I moved here radical noodle Jul 2018 #6
I am in Florida. Blue_true Jul 2018 #20
That's our system too radical noodle Jul 2018 #22
In my state we can go online and make sure our mailed ballot got there. pnwmom Jul 2018 #7
There is about a 2% rejection rate for vote by mail Gothmog Jul 2018 #8
Problems with VBM diva77 Jul 2018 #9
Thats what I was afraid of coeur_de_lion Jul 2018 #16
It's unfortunate, but a real problem. The best way to vote is: 1)ensure that your registration is diva77 Jul 2018 #17
what if I fill out my ballot coeur_de_lion Jul 2018 #18
carry it there on election day? or prior? Since I don't know what state you're in diva77 Jul 2018 #24
In California, this is fine. leftieNanner Jul 2018 #27
My county has scanned paper ballots for all elections. Blue_true Jul 2018 #21
we need to VOTE BY MAIL .... like we do in OREGON. it is great trueblue2007 Jul 2018 #10
Agreed leftieNanner Jul 2018 #28
Most important thing is that it is easy to vote by mail. I doubt it's any easier to hack, Hoyt Jul 2018 #11
I love voting by mail! cbreezen Jul 2018 #12
My friends daughter worked in a place that collected mail ins Doreen Jul 2018 #13
Arizona here. I vote by mail. Lady Freedom Returns Jul 2018 #14
We always vote by mail but we take the ballots straight to the courthouse. Most cities have drop OregonBlue Jul 2018 #15
I can vote by mail because I'm older than 65. Jane Austin Jul 2018 #19
I live in Oregon where vote-by-mail Mme. Defarge Jul 2018 #23
Can't speak for security but it is easier crazycatlady Jul 2018 #25
"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." cutroot Jul 2018 #29
When we vote by mail, how do they know that we only voted once? FakeNoose Jul 2018 #30
Is it safer? I'm not sure because it's down to who or what counts those votes ProudLib72 Jul 2018 #31
I just voted absentee,(Mail in) in Ohio... jdadd Jul 2018 #32
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