Vote in Person

[ogsball]

Okay, I've heard people say that they will crawl on glass to go vote against Donald Trump. Great, but what is shaping up with the mail in ballots is a potential disaster.

So. . .

Get a mask, or a respirator if you have to. Go buy a lawn chair or borrow one from a friend if you have to. Pack a lunch and take a snack. Save your vacation time. Do whatever you have to show up and vote. Don't leave that line until you've voted!

My wife wants to do mail in and I won't stop her but I'm showing up. I'm encouraging my children, my siblings (well some of my siblings), my aunts and uncles, cousins, and nieces and nephews to vote in person. If it's my last act on this earth I'm going to show up and vote! I'm going to fill out a paper ballot; I might even violate the law and take a picture of it with my phone and I'm going to place that sucker in the vote counting machine.

I'm going to ask my neighbors if they need a ride. I'm going to encourage others to get there and vote. I want Biden to be way ahead even before the mail in ballots come in. I'm want my vote to count and I'm not taking any chance, even if it costs me my health.

[NightWatcher]

1. I will be voting in person on the first day of Early Voting in Florida.

Then I will be working to watch the shenanigans around the poll sites and bring bottles of water or rain ponchos on Election Day.

[Fla Dem]

21. Me Too. Maybe not the 1st day, but early.

[onetexan]

25. Bravo! Ditto here, hubby & i and our adult kids w be voting early, & i w/ be working the polls.

We need to kick this SOB out of office or this will be our last free election.

[agingdem]

2. I've got my Ruth Bader Ginsberg mask

and my hand sanitizer at the door...can't wait

[Maru Kitteh]

3. I'm returning my ballot to a drop-off the day it arrives. It has tracking online. IF it is rejected

or does not "arrive" on time I will vote in person, with a plan similar to what you've described. I have already put in for the time off.

[MontanaMama]

12. My plan exactly.

The drop off is a block from my work. I check and recheck my voter registration once a week. I don’t trust Corey Stapleton one bit.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. I vote by mail. I hope people who can vote by mail do so - and vote early.

[sarcasmo]

5. IF my mail in ballot doesn't count our Democracy has died.

[USALiberal]

6. I voted by mail in Kansas Primary, it was received in 2 days and posted received online. nt

[Kaleva]

7. I suggest getting a mail in ballot and depositing in a drop box if that's allowed in your state

That's what I'm doing.

[padah513]

9. Same here

[Green Line]

10. That's what I did for our Primary yesterday

Dropped it on Sunday, checked ballot tracking on Monday and it was accepted. I'll vote this way for the General. But if that wasn't available, I'd vote early in person.

[MyMission]

8. Absolutely will vote in person, early

And will also be bringing my elderly neighbor. She is 89 and determined to vote 45 out!

[BKDem]

11. I have no confidence that we can survive the "Red mirage" we're hearing about now.

If returns on election night show Trump winning because Trumpers went to the polls and decent people filed mail-in ballots that won't be counted for weeks, there is no way in hell Trump won't declare the election rigged.

I'm on oxygen with a pulmonary disease and I should be voting by mail, because catching the virus will almost certainly kill me. But I'm going to load up the car with oxygen tanks and vote early. My wife will have to go in and hold a place for me until I can get in and get out in an hour or so. We're in the suburbs of NYC, and we have nine days and two polling places we can try.

In Donald Trump's America, I have no confidence that mail-in ballots will arrive on time, or that ballots dropped off at the Board of Elections will ever be counted.

[LisaL]

15. I am not concerned about so-called red mirage.

The whole idea is nonsense. Most states count absentee ballots first, not last. I am not sure what is the goal of trying to freak people out based on a false premise. My state starts counting absentee ballots several weeks prior to the election.
Those will be the first ballots counted, not the last. There are a few states that will count them on the day of the election, but most states allow to start counting them early.

[BKDem]

16. May I ask what state you're talking about?

[LisaL]

17. Ohio.

NT

[BKDem]

18. NY does not count until after the polls close.

[LisaL]

19. But I don't think NY will have red mirage considering by how much Trump is going to lose there.

NT

[BKDem]

20. Yes, thank god.

But I’d still like my vote to count. Justice demands that Trump needs to lose the popular vote in a landslide.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. I have already requested my absentee ballot. As soon as it arrives, I will fill it out and

hand deliver it to the County Clerk.

[Qutzupalotl]

14. Be prepared for long lines and broken/removed machines.

Or if you vote on paper, shortages of ballots.

I am planning to take my absentee ballot (Oregon is all vote-by-mail) to a drop box as soon as it comes in. Good luck, everyone.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. What you say is fine if you're not sick in bed from covid on Nov 3. And the polling place is open.

And lines aren't wrapped around the block in cold-wet November weather because voter machines are broken or inadequate for the crowd and/or the generally elderly poll workers were afraid to show up at the last minute.
Voting ahead of time by whatever means your state allows is the best insurance against those kinds of problems.

[mnhtnbb]

23. Will be voting in person during early voting

which begins here Oct 15th. We have paper ballots in Wake County, NC. I want to be damn sure my vote is counted.

My early voting location is 3 blocks from my apartment at the County BoE office. Have never encountered a line there when early voting in the past.

That's my plan.

[DeeNice]

24. I'll vote in person unless infection rates start to explode.

[EndlessWire]

26. Instead of a lawn chair, try a rollator.

You can get one for around $50. You can sit on it when necessary. You can hang stuff off it. You can push it smoothly along. And, you can use it later.

It will be easier to get up off it than a lawn chair. And, if some smartass poll worker tells you you can't have a lawn chair in line, well, they probably can't take your rollator away from you.

[BlueWavePsych]

27. Agree

I'm going to ask my neighbors if they need a ride. I'm going to encourage others to get there and vote. I want Biden to be way ahead even before the mail in ballots come in. I'm want my vote to count and I'm not taking any chance, even if it costs me my health.