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Cicada

(4,533 posts)
4. No, this is overkill
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 08:45 AM
Aug 2020

There are environmental and other costs associated with a special trip. I do business via mail so I have watched postal performance carefully. There are definitely delays, typically 2 days. Sometimes five or six days, in rare cases. But so far everything I have mailed has gotten to the intended recipient. So mail a week early. Or 10 days early to be safe.

And honestly your single vote is not going to change the result. I vote as a moral act, not as a practical act. And it makes me feel good. If your vote is lost? Joe is still going to win in California by three million. He is still going to lose in Wyoming. But it really does cost you several dollars in gas and repairs to drive. And it does add pollution to the air.

Just vote by mail.

I plan to bring my ballot to the county auditor's office, as my bullwinkle428 Aug 2020 #1
We are doing the same here! Alliepoo Aug 2020 #2
You have to have it mailed to you first. My mail is soooo bad right now I don't know if mucifer Aug 2020 #3
Download your absentee ballot from vote.org eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #9
It's an application, not a ballot. LisaL Aug 2020 #12
Oh, right. Doesn't help. nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #13
Exactly. All of this plans to supposedly avoid USPS still involve USPS. LisaL Aug 2020 #14
No, this is overkill Cicada Aug 2020 #4
That's you're opinion. I happen to follow climate change in great detail. NNadir Aug 2020 #5
Did Rush Holt win by one vote? Or tie? Cicada Aug 2020 #10
Rush Holt won when absentee ballots were counted. NNadir Aug 2020 #19
What are the odds an early mail in ballot won't be counted? Cicada Aug 2020 #20
Much higher than the odds that I'll further tolerate this silly conversation. n/t. NNadir Aug 2020 #21
Same here. LastDemocratInSC Aug 2020 #6
That's what I'm doing. ananda Aug 2020 #7
We have a drop box in front of city hall here in New Haven. CTyankee Aug 2020 #8
You need to have a ballot to drop off. LisaL Aug 2020 #15
Yep. We just put our applications for absentee ballots in that box. CTyankee Aug 2020 #16
I sent my application too. LisaL Aug 2020 #17
I trust that the city of New Haven is doing the right thing here, or as best as they can. CTyankee Aug 2020 #18
You still have to get this ballot delivered to you. LisaL Aug 2020 #11
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