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senseandsensibility

(20,256 posts)
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 04:05 PM Mar 2024

Love our elections in California!

So easy, so convenient. Everyone is mailed a ballot which can be returned postage free through the US mail, or dropped off or returned in person to the polling place. If you sign up, you can track your ballot and see when it was mailed and when it was received. Mine was received!

Stress free and confidence inspiring. Thank you, Gov. Newsom!

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Love our elections in California! (Original Post) senseandsensibility Mar 2024 OP
Anyone have any thoughts about their state's voting senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #1
Im in CA so same as you FreeState Mar 2024 #2
Mostly blue states I see senseandsensibility Mar 2024 #4
Colorado here! Nittersing Mar 2024 #3

FreeState

(10,681 posts)
2. Im in CA so same as you
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 07:41 PM
Mar 2024

But I believe OR and WA also have vote by mail for all registered voters. It's a no-brainer.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-18-states-with-all-mail-elections

Ballots are mailed out well ahead of Election Day, and thus voters have an “election period,” not just a single day, to vote. Mostly-mail elections can be thought of as absentee voting for everyone. This system is also referred to as “vote by mail.”

Eight states—California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia—allow all elections to be conducted entirely by mail.
Two states—Nebraska and North Dakota—permit counties to opt into conducting elections by mail.
Nine states—Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming—allow specific small elections to be conducted by mail.
Four states—Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey and New Mexico—permit mostly-mail elections for certain small jurisdictions.

senseandsensibility

(20,256 posts)
4. Mostly blue states I see
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 07:45 PM
Mar 2024

but I think everyone would love it. Of course it does encourage voting, and we know who is against that.

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