I was going to vote my mail in November..but now I think I will stand in line at the polls..

[Peacetrain]

Virus or no virus.. I will be masked and six feet apart.. but I am going to the polls...

The more I think about how Trump is trying to negate vote by mail, the more suspicious I am of the reasons.. Point being.. in my area and I am assuming many others.. the vote by mail is more prone to be the republicans.. but if Trump and his minions were to get their people to go to the polls.. and the Democrats vote by mail in huge numbers.. the only numbers the nation would be hearing the night of the election could be republicans votes

There is already a theory that the election could be days before it will be finalized because of covid virus having voters vote by mail.

Could this be a reason that Trump is not doing a damn thing to stop the virus.. so people will vote by mail and he can then say it rigged election, because the election night numbers were more in his favor?? I know it sounds crazy... but Trump does not give a whit about who will die from this virus..and the Trumpians would be crazy enough to try and do something like that..

So I am going to the polls... I can be as crazy as they are I guess

[UTUSN]

1. K&R

[Green Line]

2. If I lived in a Republican area I would also go to the polls

I live in MA, so I don't expect any problems with voting by mail, this state is so far out of reach for him it doesn't matter.

[Sherman A1]

3. I am voting by mail

just did this week for our August Primary and will do so again in late October for the November election. I might add that a heavy mail in ballot is also mentioned by the media folks when they do the occasional brush up against journalism thing and aren't busy just filling airtime.

[mcar]

4. I've voted by mail in red FL for years

I can track my ballot on the Supervisor of Elections website so I know it's been received and counted.

[Peacetrain]

5. I am not one bit worried about it being counted.. more like the delay of the count being a

reason for the Trumpians to try and denigrate the vote.. crazy how they have been going after the mail in vote.. those turkeys are up to something

[drray23]

6. A good alternative is to vote absentee in person at the registrar office.

Its an option we have here in Virginia. I am not sure if thats true everywhere. Basically, you can either vote in person the day of the election, vote by mail or vote ahead of time at the registrar office.

[frazzled]

7. I requested a mail-in ballot

But I may go to the polls, either on election day or at one of the early voting sites (which I did for the primaries in March, gloved and masked; it felt very safe, because there were only about 4 other people voting at the time we went). We'll see how things are going by November.

I'd really like to either fill in that circle or push that button for change (election day voting uses paper mark-up ballots to put in the scanner; early voting uses electronic machines that print out your marked ballot, which you then personally feed into the scanner). There's a kind of rush you get from that instantaneous counting that you just don't get from mail-in.

But safety first.

[zipplewrath]

8. Early Voting

In my situation, the "safest" way will be early voting. When I've gone straight to the registrars office, it is usually relatively uncrowded. It is the same procedures as election day with the same forms and machines and in fact basically are "counted" that day, but the results held in the machine until election day.

[nilram]

9. Here we can drop off a mail-in ballot at the elections department, or one of their heavy drop boxes

Don’t necessarily have to go through the mail. I use a dropbox on my side of town.

[lagomorph777]

10. I am torn. Much more concerned about making sure my vote gets counted, than election night optics.

[IcyPeas]

11. Can't we drop off our mail-in ballot at a polling place?

without having to stand in line? I would trust it more this way than dropping it in a mail box.

[Iggo]

12. Took me over two hours to move 50 feet in line at the polls back in March.

Not doing that again.

I want to vote, not make a point.