I voted this morning, Ohio early voting has started!

[mackdaddy]

I was just thinking this is the Third time I have voted against the Orange Criminal...

But I am in a rural county and the BOE offices are actually closer than my voting location across town.

We now vote on paper ballots with the fill in the bubble type with pens provided. Once you have finished with that you go over to one of two scanning machines and feed you ballot into the machine. It sucks it in, scans it and puts it in some internal storage. It does have a display that it scanned it.

The Ohio supreme court offices now are listed as Democratic or Republican candidates. The state Board of education was not, and I had not looked up those candidates.

We had several offices without an Democratic candidate and I did not vote for any Republican period.

We also had Issue 1 which is the second attempt to end Gerrymandering in Ohio. We passed a ban of this 6 years ago but the Republicans have done and end run around that one, so hopefully this one will pass and work.

For anyone in Ohio, we do not just have an election Day, we basically have an election MONTH!

[Maeve]

1. Will be voting early, probably next week

Like to go with Hubby, and I work the election.

[Botany]

2. What County are you in?

N/t

[mackdaddy]

3. Hocking County

SE Ohio.

[Botany]

5. I know it well.

Conkle’s Hollow is awesome.

[Tribetime]

4. I wish I was that lucky in Cuyahoga County only 1 polling location for 1.25 million

[LisaL]

6. Yep. OH only allows 1 early voting location per county.

So same in Franklin. Population of 1.3 millions and 1 early voting location.

[Tribetime]

7. Just making the Democratic leaning areas harder to vote

Hopefully someday we will get a Democratic S.O.S.

[LisaL]

9. Yep, it would be nice to have a democratic SOS.

Anyhow, this year I plan to vote on election date. My polling place doesn't usually get busy and is close to my house.
I voted by mail in last general election and Franklin county screwed up some of the ballots by sending some wrong ballots to some people. So it had to reprint the ballots and re-send them. So that certainly didn't go smoothly.

[Bettie]

8. YAY! Glad you voted!

In Iowa they made early voting shorter, so we don't start until the 16th, but we'll be there and ready.

Reminded my two voting-age sons as well as the girlfriend of the middle one. So, even though Iowa doesn't matter, we're all voting for Harris/Walz.