Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

No Justins, No Peace

I was promised a recession.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The revolution will be supervised.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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*FL = only some counties in Florida start on 10/19, others start on 10/24

Broward County:  22 early voting  locations

Miami-Dade County:  33 early voting locations

Monroe County:  5 early voting locations

Hillsborough County:  26 early voting locations

Palm Beach County:  18 early voting locations

Manatee County: 6 early voting locations

Seminole County: 8 early voting locations

*check with your county if it is not on this list

Guide to fast and safe early voting for president in Florida

Early Voting starts later this week for These States:

Wisconsin:  Oct 20

West Virginia: Oct 21 – Oct 31

Florida early voting:  October 24 – 31  (Oct 19 in some places!)

New York: Oct 24 – Nov 1

Coming Soon!

Maryland:  Oct 26

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Early Voting Has Already Started!

Alaska:  Oct 19

Arizona

Arkansas:  Oct 19, 2020 – Nov 2

*California

Colorado:  Oct 19

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas: Oct 14 – November 2

Kentucky:  Oct 13

Louisiana:  Oct 16 – Oct 27

Maine

Massachusetts:  Oct 17

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana – October 2 to October 30 at county Board of Election offices

Nebraska:  Oct 5 – Nov 2

Nevada: October 17 – 30

New Mexico

North Carolina:  Oct 15 – 31

Ohio starts on October 6

Rhode Island:  Oct 14

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee:  Oct 14 – 29

Texas: Oct 13 – Oct 30

Vermont

Virginia

Wyoming

Always check your state and county websites for specific information about voting times and voting locations.

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* Voting absentee in person (a bit of an oxymoron) started on September 9 in Alabama

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NO EARLY VOTING

Missouri does not offer an early voting period. If you will be unable to vote in person on Election Day, you can request an absentee ballot/mail-in ballot by mail or by visiting your local election office – beginning on Sept 22.

Mississippi does not offer early voting. In Mississippi, the only “early” votes are absentee ballots that are available beginning 45 days before an election, but only for specific excused reasons including the voters knowing that they’ll be out of their home county on Election Day or disability or voters past age 65. College students and members of the armed forces can often vote absentee ballots.

Remember, if you vote – in person or drop it off or put it in the mail – stop by and post a comment in the I Voted post.  It’s in the sidebar on computers and in the hamburger menu on mobile.

If you know the first date for early voting, and your state isn’t on one of these lists yet, please let me know in the comments.

 

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  1. 1.

    Mike J

    Washington ballots went in the mail last Wednesday, the 14th.   After you fill it out, put it in the safety sleeve, put it in the envelope and sign the envelope, you can drop it in any mailbox and the postage is already paid, or you can go to one of many ballot drop boxes.

    Here’s a map of drop boxes in King County:

    https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/how-to-vote/ballots/returning-my-ballot/ballot-drop-boxes.aspx

    Don’t forget to put an email address or phone number in the appropriate place on the envelope. If there’s a problem with your signature they can contact you and you can get it fixed.  You can track the progress of you ballot at https://info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/vote/myvoterinfo.aspx  That will tell you when it has been received, signature verified, and actually counted.

  2. 2.

    Mart

    Missouri is another oxymoran allowing absentee early in-person voting: “Mail in or faxed absentee ballot requests must be received by the election authority no later than the 5:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday prior to any election. Voters can vote by absentee in the office of the local election authority until 5:00 p.m. the night before the election.”

  3. 3.

    Lyrebird

    New York starts Saturday.

    Had to get a covid test for work, have to isolate until results come back.  Will make a plan after they come back.  My community has a transmission rate under .5 right now, and I am not seriously ill, so here’s hoping I am one of the true negatives!

    I have given most of what I can to races, but I am tempted to send more to TX and PA local races.  Can’t knock on doors now, can’t even bring food to canvassers.  Maybe I should send to that World Chef bunch and/or Pizza to the Polls.

     

    Thanks WaterGirl for doing so much!

  4. 4.

    BruceFromOhio

    MrsFromOhio and her sister voted early in person last Thursday. The long was not very long, and moved quickly. They were in and out in under an hour, including parking the car and getting a wheelchair for sis.

    I dropped off my absentee ballot on Friday. The place was jamming, cops directing traffic and a line of voters that stretched down most of a city block. I hit the drive-thru ballot drop off and was gone in 60 seconds.

    For as vertically fornicated as Ohio is on some things, they got this voting thing down.

  6. 6.

    PsiFighter37

    Did not realize NY had early in-person voting until I did a little research this weekend…glad that there is finally an option. Going to go check it out on Saturday…my location is MSG.

  7. 7.

    Eric S.

    I filled out my mail in ballot about 2 weeks ago. Last Wednesday a friend picked it up and put it in a drop box at an early voting location. He volunteered because I have a broken leg (softball injury) and am in a walking boot. I had one ballot initiative (Fair Tax: Yes), a baker’s dozen political positions to vote, and two+ pages of judge retention votes. The ballots are 18″ long. I don’t exaggerate when I say I had over 100 judge retentions on the ballot. They are never opposed.

  8. 8.

    Tim C.

    Also, Oregon is 100% vote by mail and your ballot comes with a qc code to track it with.  Dropped mine off at the library drop box and it was accepted in the system within 24 hours

  11. 11.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Here in Colorado (thank something that after 22+ years living in the reddest of second reddest county in Misery, I’m the fuck outta there), last Friday the Denver post reported:

    More than 300,000 Colorado voters have returned ballots for the Nov. 3 election as of 11:30 Wednesday night — a staggering display of enthusiasm in a state that sends all voters a ballot by mail. When that latest figure was tabulated by the Secretary of State’s Office, Colorado was 20 days out from the election.

    Twenty days out from the 2016 election — when Colorado also had universal mail-in voting — 12,141 people had cast ballots, said a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Jena Griswold. That’s a 2,377% increase in early turnout this year as compared with 2016, when overall voter turnout far exceeded the national average.

    Politicos in Colorado are floored by these numbers, which Democratic political consultant Craig Hughes described as “bonkers.” Republicans make up 27% of the state’s overall voter roll but accounted for only 19% of ballots received by late Wednesday.

    Note that number.  The Crazification Factor has been one of the most prescient political “theories” of our time.

    https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/15/colorado-2020-election-voter-turnout-ballots/

  12. 12.

    Llelldorin

    CA is doing a full mail-in election this time, tracked by barcode. Dropped my ballot off last weekend; it was accepted on Wednesday.

  14. 14.

    Victor Matheson

    Voted on Saturday in person in MA. First day of allowable voting although the actual voting times differ by town. No lines, well organized. Immensely satisfying. Not only did I get to vote against that piece shit currently in the White House, but I also got to satisfy the economics nerd in me and vote for MA ballot amendment #2 that would establish rank choice voting for all elections in the state. It’s a great pro-democracy proposal that would prevent things like the terrible Paul LePage getting elected twice in Maine despite receiving only 37% of the vote once and 48% the second time. If you are MA voter, please vote yes on #2.

  15. 15.

    Anonymous At Work

    Broward and Miami-Dade counties start early voting today.  Traditionally, some of the deepest blue areas where Florida Democrats run up the score for the state.  Get out and vote.  Have a plan, a bottle of water and an umbrella (good both ways).

  16. 16.

    Harrier

    Dropped our absentee ballots at a local dropbox on Saturday afternoon– the government center was packed with lots of people voting in-person. Very efficient, with many enthusiastic and helpful poll workers. Morale very high. (Fairfax county VA)

  17. 17.

    Noncarborundum

    My wife and I voted yesterday in MA, and it turns out the procedure is exactly the same as for absentee voting, except that there are poll workers present and they tell you what to do and which drop box to put your completed ballot into. They were taking only two voters at a time and each pair took an average of five minutes to vote. As a result we ended up waiting in line outdoors for about an hour and a half in chilly but not otherwise unpleasant weather

    P.S. for Victor Matheson: voted yes on 2.

  18. 18.

    mad citizen

    Thanks WaterGirl and all the front pagers for the time and effort here on BJ!

    I was curious so thought I might start tracking the percentage of early votes compared to the 2016 number of votes for president, which according to wikipedia was 136,669,276.  The total for this year on this website (which seems pretty comprehensive–they updated the number between late last night and now) is 28,439,347.  This works out to be 20.8% votes cast.

    https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

    It is way ahead of 2016 (think I read we were around 7 million at this point then, but don’t have the reference).

  19. 19.

    Mousebumples

    As stated previously, I’ve already voted by mail.

    Semi related question – has anyone heard anything about how they’ll be changing up exit polls this year? I doubt they’ll just do away with them but Election Day samples are unlikely to be representative on a nationwide level.

  20. 20.

    Gin & Tonic

    Reviewing my sample ballot, hoping to go vote tomorrow. I see that Rocky De La Fuente is, once again, a Presidential candidate. Pretty compelling story, maybe I should vote for him?

  24. 24.

    Mousebumples

    Andy Slavitt @ ? (@ASlavitt) tweeted at 2:49 PM on Sun, Oct 18, 2020:

    Add a picture of who or what or why you are voting.

    (https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1317915850377203712?s=03)

    Not that any of us need more motivation to vote, but this thread is full of both inspiring stories and reminders of how terrible the current administration is.

    I don’t like posting pics of my daughter on the internet, but I’m voting and volunteering for her. She’s 14 months old, and I don’t want her to grow up in a real life version of the Handmaids Tale.

  25. 25.

    Jay C

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Do you live in CA?

    I saw that not only is Rocky de la Fuente on the ballot (again), but that – somehow – he has Kanye West as his running mate!

    Two “Other” votes for the price of one!

  26. 26.

    Salty Sam

    We are packing to leave Puerto Rico to fly back to Texas to vote in-person.  Our absentee ballots arrived a couple of weeks ago, so we have them in hand to surrender to poll workers so our votes will NOT be on a provisional ballot-  this is as solid a plan for making sure my vote counts as I can come up with.

    We fly out tomorrow, 24 hr travel time (planned for less crowded airports/less exposure to covid), we should have our vote in the bank by Friday at the latest!

  27. 27.

    WhiteLightnin

    Please add Arkansas — AR. We started today too. Line around the corner this morning at the Courthouse in Fort Smith, according to coworker.

  28. 28.

    Mousebumples

    Logan Rubenstein ? (@loganrub_17) tweeted at 6:37 AM on Mon, Oct 19, 2020:

    The line in Broward County, FL on first day of early voting 15 minutes polls opened. https://t.co/DA6TpKrm0w

    (https://twitter.com/loganrub_17/status/1318154259096100864?s=03)

     

    Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) tweeted at 7:21 AM on Mon, Oct 19, 2020:

    A woman who already voted just gave me an umbrella as I stand in line. “Someone gave it to me,” she said, “I’m just paying it forward.” I’ve been voting in Florida since 1996 and it’s never felt like a festival concert before https://t.co/CFr7KIAsYY

    (https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1318165485310119939?s=03)

     

    Christine Hunschofsky (@CHunschofsky) tweeted at 6:09 AM on Mon, Oct 19, 2020:

    Just before the polls opened at 7am on this first day of early voting in Broward County and this is the line at the Parkland Amphitheater early voting site. It is the longest line I have ever seen at early voting in Parkland.

    #VOTE https://t.co/qlqMToCAHT

    (https://twitter.com/CHunschofsky/status/1318147288456376321?s=03)

    Turnout looks to be like Georgia and Texas in Florida today.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    Is it possible that this election will be decided by votes cast before the nominal election day? And does that possibility work in Biden’s favour? Because if true, it raises the heady prospect of Trump waking up on 3rd November fearing his doom but not yet certain of it.

  34. 34.

    Walker

    @Amir Khalid: Polls suggest that in person voting on Election Day will be heavily Trump. And while things look good, it is till close enough that there is no way for Trump to lose before Election Day.

  35. 35.

    TS (the original)

    @Victor Matheson:

    would establish rank choice voting for all elections in the state

    My part of the world we call that preferential voting – wherein you mark your preferences 1,2,3,…. I’ve voted this way all my voting life. It stops 3rd party spoilers which I see as the major benefit of the method.

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    @Amir Khalid: Nobody really knows. I’ve seen estimates that we might get 60% of the total electorate voting early this year and if that pans out it will probably mean that most of the states will be essentially decided by Election Day, but of course we won’t know until that evening (at the earliest).

  37. 37.

    Geeno

    My family’s ballots are all filled out and sitting on an end table in the living room waiting for Saturday.

  41. 41.

    ARoomWithAMoose

    Hillsborough County (Tampa/Brandon) allows early in person voting for its registered voters starting today too, at _any_ early vote location in the county;

    “https://www.votehillsborough.org/VOTERS/Early-Voting”

  43. 43.

    mad citizen

    @Amir Khalid: As Mousebumples indicated above, the exit polling might be tricky this time–how are they doing it, etc.  So I doubt we will know for sure on the morning of Nov. 3, but here is a hypothetical:

    Let’s say we get up to 80% (I guess my hypo is all popular vote–would be very complicated to do all the states) votes cast by Nov. 3, and they go 55% for Biden and 45% for Trump (again ignoring others).  And going off of the 2016 total of 136 million, that’s 59.84 million for Biden and 48.96 million for trump.  So if the remaining 27.2 million vote on Nov. 3, Trump would need to get 69% of those to make up the 10 million vote deficit.  That means Biden would only be getting 31% of the vote on Nov. 3.  Very unlikely.

    Long story short, both sides want early votes to “bank”, but it does seem like there is a blue wave coming.

    Trump is on his farewell tour and is breaking down.  Once he loses there won’t be any reason to hold rallies (dog help us).  Recall he started running for 2020 in early 2017–the never-ending campaign.  COVID-19 has halted Dylan’s Never Ending Tour, but didn’t stop Trump’s Never Ending (Failed) Campaign.  If only he had tried to do his job.

  44. 44.

    Barbara

    @WaterGirl: No excuses early in person and absentee voting. So much easier. We had to fill out forms and swear we were unable to vote in person. I hated it.

  49. 49.

    DCrefugee

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, only some counties in Florida opened today for early voting. My bad.

    As is typical with this fcking state, those counties not yet voting are very red.

    According to the Sun-Sentinel, “State Division of Elections records show that all the counties with more than 175,000 residents start early voting on Oct. 19. That covers more than 90% of the state’s population.”

    https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/fl-ne-florida-early-voting-how-to-guide-2020-20201016-wwq6vgy4w5bkleff64odoehfii-story.html

  52. 52.

    snoey

    @WaterGirl: My MA mail ballot had a bar code on the security envelope.  I checked the ballot tracker web site and it showed mine as accepted the day after I dropped it off.

  53. 53.

    Mike in DC

    Maryland early voting starts on October 26th, one week from now. The deadline to request a mail-in ballot is tomorrow.

    I wonder how many early votes and mail votes can get in before election day.  Is 80 million possible?

  54. 54.

    Bruuuuce

    Absentee ballot is here and filled out. (I get to vote for AOC again, yay!) Have not delivered it yet because it’s a bit of a schlep to the currently open drop box, but when early voting opens this weekend, we will go there (it’s much closer) and make it count.

  55. 55.

    Jeffery

    An email today from the election board in Philadelphia. My ballot was received and recorded on 10.19.2020. I mailed it 10.1.2020. I live 7 miles from where it was delivered.

  56. 56.

    Socrates Jacques Ortiz

    King County, WA (home of Seattle) is reporting 4-5 times the 2016 volume at ballot drop boxes.

    https://twitter.com/kcelections/status/1318030801460604933?s=2

    King County! ?You impress.? In 2016 we collected 16,000 ballots from drop boxes the first 5 days after mailing. This year, we have⭐️60,000⭐️ballots and it’s not even been 5 days! We hear you and are sending out staff to empty drop boxes daily! Take a look.

  57. 57.

    Almost Retired

    @Jeffery:  This is an unscientific survey (based on Facebook friends and a professional listserve), but the lag time between dropping off our ballots in Los Angeles at an official box and having the website reflect it’s receipt is about three to five days.  Which is heartening.  I don’t know what happens if you utilize one of the California Republican Party’s faux “drop your ballot in the clown’s mouth” boxes.

  58. 58.

    Mousebumples

    Andy Suchorski (@AndySuchorski) tweeted at 8:39 AM on Mon, Oct 19, 2020:

    863,006 Wisconsinites have already voted (+4,383 from yesterday).

    1,406,079 have requested an absentee ballot (+1,924).

    15 days to go. Make your plan to vote early. In-person early voting starts TOMORROW (Oct 20) find your early vote location here https://t.co/5mfYSOf2eP

    (https://twitter.com/AndySuchorski/status/1318185074987274242?s=03

    And this is all Vote By Mail. (we used a Dropbox in my house) Great early turnout in a state where Biden is currently +8 or so. ??️

  61. 61.

    Jeffery

    @Almost Retired:  I’m in Philadelphia, PA. We have a state ballot tracking site. I checked it daily after I mailed my ballot on the first of October. On the 10th of October the updated site told me the ballot had been mailed to me on 9/30/2020. I got it the next day filled it out and mailed it. Seems to take an awfully long time here. I have read other parts of the PA aren’t having as long a wait. Philadelphia alone could deny Donald PA if the turn out is good.

  63. 63.

    Ruckus

    In CA in my area the first walk in polling place opens on 10/24, with 3 more in this city opening on 10/31. The state did of course send everyone a ballot and installed drop off boxes. (The republican party thought they would help of course and put out their own-illegal-drop off boxes – assholes that they are.) I’m betting that the majority of votes are done with the mailed ballots, 72% were mailed in this years primary.

  65. 65.

    FlyingToaster

    I drove past Town Hall on my way home from the morning drop-off for WarriorTeen. No lines (outside); maybe a half-dozen cars parked along Main in front or on Thaxter either side (there are around 20 spaces in back as well).

    My plan is to go tomorrow after drop-off.

    @Barbara:

    We had to fill out forms and swear we were unable to vote in person. I hated it.

    The old way, here in Massachusetts. I went through that to vote absentee when I was booked to man the computer room at a product launch in FL (even brought my plane ticket with me), and the Friday before election day, the whole effing event was cancelled. So I was in town that Tuesday, but I had already voted.

    This is MUCH better. I’ll run into town hall, vote, and head home, and no excuses required.

  66. 66.

    TheOBP

    Apologies if this has already been covered; just hopping on this thread to heartily recommend checking out your local county site for polling places and wait times. We voted last Wednesday, on day two of TX early voting, in Austin. We ran late and didn’t get our act together to get to a polling station till around noon, and with past experience here with at least 1-2 hour waits with early voting, were expecting a possibility of much worse. We used the Travis County site, rapidly decided against going where we had planned, found a convenient location ~15 min away, and, despite serious doubts about the reliability of the website’s estimate, headed over. I actually thought we might be in the wrong place at first. Pulled into an open parking spot, walked right in the door, and found no line, open spots to sign in, open polling booths. In/out >10 minutes, mostly because we both obsessively rechecked our ballots! Best of luck to all voting!

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    trump is doing some kind of conference call with his campaign staff, but reporters are also on it

    Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT
    18m “People are tired of covid,” the president said. “People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots… Fauci’s a nice guy, he’s been here for 500 years…wonderful sage telling us…”

    Trump says every time Fauci goes on TV it’s a “bomb,” but it’s a “bigger bomb if you fire him.”

    “If there’s a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn’t care less,” Trump says.

    He also calls Fauci “a disaster”. Last night on (I think) 60 Minutes, Fauci said he’s getting death threats and has to have security when he goes for walks with his wife.

  69. 69.

    Croaker

    @Jeffery:

    We still have not received ours in Montgomery County. Additionally, the messed up the printing with duplicate addresses on the mailer.

    The Voter Tracking Site hasn’t been updated for weeks.@Jeffery:

  72. 72.

    Crashman06

    @FlyingToaster:

    This is MUCH better. I’ll run into town hall, vote, and head home, and no excuses required.

    I did this on Saturday a half hour before the town hall closed for the day. Right in an out. Easy and no problem; very convenient.

  73. 73.

    trollhattan

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    It’s almost as though with the choice of a puppy, a kitten, a colt or a scorpion to run the country we all* decided “scorpion, please, mammals are so boring.”

    *”We all”=a stupid, angry minority.

  75. 75.

    MattF

    @Mike in DC: I put my voted MD  ballot into a drop box a couple of weeks ago, and I got an email from the MD BOE that they have it. Next step is ‘canvassing’ i.e., collecting and counting by the county, which will happen soon. So, unless something goes spectacularly wrong, I’m done.

  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    another reporter on that trump call, it sounds like a little mini-rally where he can just hear himself talk

    Alex Isenstadt @politicoalex
    Trump says Biden has a “scandal coming up” that will make him an “impotent” candidate

    sounds like Rudi’s not done. Going to the Post kind of blew back on him. I wonder if Judge Jeanine or her mini-me Maria Bartiromo will get the next exclusive.

    Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs ·43m
    “Are we still up Bill, or what?” Trump, on campaign call, says of polling in Michigan.

    Stepien doesn’t say yes, but says Trump is ahead of where Democrats want them to be.

  81. 81.

    taumaturgo

    @Mousebumples: Lines will seem “longer” in part due to safe distance people are observing and in other cases due to the complexity of the ballot which means voters will take more time to vote.

  83. 83.

    Mike E

    Shout out to peeps in Raleigh/Wake Co… I personally recommend the Barwell early voting site to anyone with logistical space concerns. Also, the staff did a bang up job when I went there just before noon last Friday (it took one hour from the time I left my apt to returning home again)

  86. 86.

    Benw

    I got assigned to be a poll worker in my home district!

    They’re changing the flow of people through the polls and how we check people in. That plus lots of new first time poll workers (like me) means it’s going to be total chaos. I am fired up!

    Gonna vote early this weekend so I don’t have to sweat it on Nov 3

  91. 91.

    cope

    @WaterGirl: You can add Seminole to your list of Florida counties that started today.  We’ve had our ballots for a couple of weeks and I have been dying to go drop them off in person.  I actually dreamed about it last night.  When I went a couple of hours ago, though, there was no parking (our polling place is the local library), the line was long and since my wife is immune compromised and I am old, I came back home.  I’ll try again in toward the middle of the afternoon.  I have never been so eager to vote in the 48 years I have been voting.

  92. 92.

    TheOBP

    @WaterGirl: not sure about the idea more broadly, but here it is a service on the Travis County site; easy to use, and pretty broadly linked by prominent local media. They have a map for all 37 county polling stations, and an interactive map with color coded wait times and clickable links to directions to each location.

  93. 93.

    WaterGirl

    @BruceFromOhio: Wolvesvalley (from PA) said yesterday that it was ONE county in PA and TWO counties in Ohio.

    So if you know the name of one county in PA, that’s the only one in PA.  If you’re talking about OH, there are two.

  94. 94.

    scav

     

    @BruceFromOhio: Give me a second to fully contemplate (and possibly appreciate) fractional voters.  Irrational ones are alas! a doddle and as for the floating point ones?  Weren’t their parades swamped?

  99. 99.

    Haroldo

    Our MA ballots arrived in the mail today – took two days to get from our BoE to our home.  We’ll be taking them up to townhall sometime tomorrow, I think.

  101. 101.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Everyone with half a brain should be alarmed at Trump saying “He’s going to have a scandal coming up”.

    This is the president of the united states (and one known for pushing the government to manufacture news for his benefit) saying he has advance notice of something coming down the pipe that will benefit him personally. He’s admitting straight out to improper influence.

    Sad that we’re at the point where the media just doesn’t care anymore, but we’re looking at historic corruption here. Or lying. Probably both.

  107. 107.

    gvg

    I have checked a bunch of County Websites for Florida through the C’s.  Most have 13% or more of all their registered voters have already voted.  Collier county has 30.03% voted already. 1 starts voting tomorrow and 1 on the 24th but all the rest started today…through the C’s  it’s interesting.  https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/supervisors/

    couldn’t make a link work

  108. 108.

    Scout211

    https://twitter.com/AlexPadilla4CA/status/1268253683587772417

    Here are the rules for the California election, per Governor Newsom’s  executive order on June 3, 2020:

    Every California county will have at least one in-person voting location for every 10K voters open for at least three days of early voting plus Election Day. This latest executive order from
    @GavinNewsom
    protects our right to vote AND will help keep voters and poll workers safe.

     

    This is in addition to sending every registered voter a mail-in ballot. Ultimately, the more Californians who vote early—either by mail or in-person—means shorter lines, smaller crowds, and a healthier experience for voters and poll workers on Election Day.

    Voters still have to look up their specific county to find where and when your county is open for early in-person voting.

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    J R in WV

    Well, we’re planning to go to the court house on Thursday to do some county business (pay taxes, renew permits, etc) and then vote in person straight Democratic for this one. On the primary there were judgeships and other non-party candidates to vote for, which takes some research to ID the non Republican candidates.

    Thursday is the second day of in person early voting, and I’m hoping that by mid afternoon there won’t be a huge line, or any line. We have only ever had to wait in line once, I’m thinking that was 2008 when the racist republicans came out after work. That wait was after we signed in sitting on a bleacher seat in the gym where our polling place is. Scoot to your left until your turn to walk to a voting machine comes. Was actually pleasant, people were chatting with friends while waiting.

    I don’t think WV has any chance of going for Biden this year, too many Trumpkins, but it could happen. The yard sign count on my drive into town is very few Trump signs, even in yards with many local R signs. So not impossible, just unlikely. Maybe many of the Rs will just not vote in the Presidential slot?!!? We can hope. If Biden takes AZ, GA, NC, FL, I’m thinking Trump has no chance.

  111. 111.

    J R in WV

    @TheOBP:

    If a polling place runs out of “I Voted” stickers, will subsequent votes really count? /s

    ………….           ;~{)

  114. 114.

    Jeffery

    @Croaker: I got an email confirmation my ballot was recorded today 10.19.2020. Eighteen days since I mailed it. The ballot tracking site has been updated to confirm that fact today as well.

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    HeartlandLiberal

    I delivered our absentee ballots to the early voting location here in Bloomington, Indiana, this morning. Since I have a handicapped tag, I was able to park in the small lot at the door, and jump the two block long line of voters voting in person. I had to sign a document stating that we were all family members in same household, which took two minutes to complete.  Early voting started Monday a week ago here in Indiana, and the line has been two blocks long or more every time we have gone past the location.

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    Ben Cisco

    Alabama: In-person absentee voting started September 9 – turnout in Jefferson County has been such that it posed a hazard for me to do so.  I have decided to opt for in-person voting on Election Day in my much smaller precinct in my Birmingham suburb.

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