Democrats urge swing-state voters to turn in mail ballots, consider bypassing Postal Service

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5. The media have also adjusted

In elections past, the news shows said that the Thursday before the election was the last day to mail your ballot. This year, they're telling voters to get their ballots in the mail on Tuesday, and failing that, deposit it in an official elections drop box.

Oregon has a slight quirk in its procedure. Other states allow ballots with an election day postmark to be counted, but Oregon's law is that the completed ballot has to be in the hands of the elections office by 8 p.m. on election day. Oregon's been doing it long enough that most voters have the hang of it, but there are probably a lot of first-time voters (who are, for some obscure reason really motivated to vote this year) who are using the system for the first time.