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csziggy

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33. We vote on paper ballots
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:00 PM
Aug 2020

During early voting since voters can go to any location, the ballots are printed when you check in so they are fresh out of the laser printer. The ballot is put into a folder, you fill out the ballot, insert it into the scanner and put the folder into a box. So the only things you touch that might be questionable are the folders and the pens to fill out the ballots. After we voted in the primaries, one of the workers wiped down the booth and pen I used after I was done. I suspect, but did not observe, that they also sanitize the folders in some way.

Me, either. Sugarcoated Aug 2020 #1
I will vote early, in person, too! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #7
No drop boxes in your area? shanti Aug 2020 #2
Or you can drop off your ballot at the County Elections Office gratuitous Aug 2020 #5
Depends on state - cannot hand deliver in TN! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #6
Awful. Criminal actually. n/t moonscape Aug 2020 #21
I concur! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #23
There could be but I'd have to drive twice as far as voting in person csziggy Aug 2020 #11
It's the voting machines that shanti Aug 2020 #32
We vote on paper ballots csziggy Aug 2020 #33
Donnie the Diddler is taking PA to court Sugarcoated Aug 2020 #20
Following shithole TN'S Policy of no hand delivery of ballots? SheltieLover Aug 2020 #24
Cons are gonna try Sugarcoated Aug 2020 #29
Very true! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #30
Right. I decided not to send for an absentee ballot but instead Hortensis Aug 2020 #22
Good idea! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #25
The Postmaster General is soon to be interviewed by the House, I think. Do you want to send your Karadeniz Aug 2020 #3
I left a message with my representative's office csziggy Aug 2020 #12
Vote early and hand deliver MacKasey Aug 2020 #4
Please check your state laws about drop off SheltieLover Aug 2020 #8
You don't techically have to put it in the mail SoCalNative Aug 2020 #14
I'd get more exposure taking it to the local FedEx or UPS office than I would at early voting csziggy Aug 2020 #15
Me too SheltieLover Aug 2020 #26
Very true! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #17
SO, fucking with the mail isn't the last straw for the Republican rank and file among us? Brainfodder Aug 2020 #9
If you have the option to hand-deliver to a drop box, do it! lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #10
I will, but I can hand deliver my ballot myself. ananda Aug 2020 #13
Trump is creating a problem Joe Biden can fix. Baked Potato Aug 2020 #16
Voting by mail, besides being safer than standing in line, panader0 Aug 2020 #18
Well I see the GOP plot to destroy faith in the PO is working just as planned... Hekate Aug 2020 #19
No such option in TN! 🤬 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #27
This particular PO branch has been mis-managed for decades csziggy Aug 2020 #28
no drop off boxes? samnsara Aug 2020 #31
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