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PoindexterOglethorpe

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Tue Oct 18, 2016, 03:40 AM Oct 2016

Here's a map of early voting. [View all]



Green is postal only. Blue is in person and postal. Purple is in person only. Gray is no early voting.

Interestingly enough, I lived in Virginia in 1980, and was going to be out of town, actually out of the country on election day that year. I was able to go to (somewhere, the county courthouse maybe) and cast an early ballot at least two weeks before election day that year. It was wonderful.

It was about twenty years before I cast my next early ballot, and I haven't voted on election day since.

As an aside, states with the most "liberal" voting policies, including same day registration, tend to not only have high voter turn out, but no suspicion of voter fraud. Of course, "voter fraud" is largely a figment of Republican imaginations. Similarly, I believe that states with relatively long legislative sessions, tend to have low fraud and high citizen confidence in their state legislatures. Those with very restrictive legislative sessions, well, are quite different.
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Here's a map of early voting. [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 OP
This next cycle we need to force a national vote by mail law boomer55 Oct 2016 #1
That would take a constitutional amendment csziggy Oct 2016 #13
Get out the early vote :) nm AmericanActivist Oct 2016 #2
MA has early voting this year, begins next week Blue_Adept Oct 2016 #3
You can vote early in SC. Are_grits_groceries Oct 2016 #4
Thank you for that information. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #14
Well, it's not technically early voting so the map is probably right. nt Are_grits_groceries Oct 2016 #17
In NC Coolest Ranger Oct 2016 #5
As for Colorado it is not just by mail awake Oct 2016 #6
Arizona here... Received my early ballot last night... Raster Oct 2016 #7
Texas has in person and postal early voting Major Nikon Oct 2016 #8
Is there a link? LWolf Oct 2016 #9
I took it from the Wikipedia article on early voting. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #15
Update SecularMotion Oct 2016 #11
Don't most states have absentee ballots? Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #12
I suspect most states do have an absentee ballot provision. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #16
Mine's already in the mail. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author HipChick Oct 2016 #20
'Early Voting' starts here in WV on this Thursday (the 26th) Rhythm Oct 2016 #21
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