Here in Colorado, everyone votes by mail now. There are polling places, for those who feel more comfortable voting that way. There is a drop off box at the local library, and we are heading there tomorrow, so DH and I filled out our ballots tonight. Annoyingly, there was no sticker included in our voting materials. Last time, there was an "I voted by mail" sticker, which I placed on our printer because it randomly starts communicating doing "something." I jokingly say, "It's communicating with the NSA."
I saw a Trumpster online freaking out because he got an "I voted!" sticker and his Democrat friend got a "My vote counted!" sticker.
We live in the country where there is no polling place so we always vote by mail. We are filling out our ballots today.
I do enjoy voting in person. It feels old fashioned, but it also feels more "real" to me. But this year, I am beyond nervous about the outcome.
I always enjoyed going down to vote. In Hawaii it was a time to see all of your neighbors. But we do not have a choice here. (Eight years ago I voted for Edwards in the primary and then he dropped out of the race. There are definite disadvantages.)
I have to wait for Election day. No early voting in Virginia without a good excuse, and I ain't gots one.
I'll vote on election day. The school I vote at is three blocks away. Next Monday I have to get a root canal done. Guess what I'm looking forward to more. Okay to be fair I am going to Nashville next Friday too.
I was able to use the "I'll be out of the county for XX hours on election day" excuse, since my job is in DC and Metro has been a general dumpster fire recently. I generally prefer to vote in person, but my polling place has had hour-plus long lines before (and Presidential elections always have the biggest crowds) so I'm glad to skip it this year. If you do ever vote by mail in Virginia, don't expect a sticker I sent in my ballot last week. I don't feel great about it, but I did it.
I live in a vote-by-mail area and my wife and I sent in our ballots over the weekend. I live in one on the reddest counties of California (Romney got 60% of the vote in my county in 2012) so hopefully our votes for state's inevitable winner don't get lost in the mail again.
Well I done done it. Was there when the polls opened at 6 AM. So don't blame me - I voted for Clinton/Kaine and Eileen Bedell. (PLEASE don't mess this up, Hillary ...)
Voted at 6:30. Surprising number of people there for that hour. Didn't have to wait too long; one thing you can say about NY is that they have lots of polling places, adequately stocked with machines, even if there is no early voting. If you wait for prime voting hours, you can wait a while (hence going at 6:30), but still - those 4 hour lines that are engineered that way (fewer polling places and machines in minority precincts, designed to create such lines and discourage voting) - not in NY, happy to say.
Voted at 8:15 PST. Steady stream of voters; at one point all voting stations were full and people were sitting at tables in the middle of the (small) room. No lines yet though. Interesting mix of people - a refreshing amount of younger voters. In fact, I'd say that there were more under 30's voting than there were us older folks (50+).
I do not remember which year, but fairly recently; we had a local election that was too close to call and they had to count all of the mail in/absentee ballots. Up until then they did not bother counting them unless it was going to make a difference. We immediately got up in arms and got that changed so that they have to count them all. (Yeah folks, your vote counts.)
Whaddawanna bet that in 2-4 years you will be hard put to find anyone who will admit to voting for that guy who "won"?
