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QUESTION: Do you vote in person, or do you just mail or drop off your ballot?
Talk about it!
Usually drop it off, this time by mail.
I fill out my ballot at home and drop it off at the polls on Election Day. It’s right around the corner and dropping it off (for me) is better than sending it in the mail. I don’t miss standing in long lines to vote or having to pay postage sending it in. At least these days the postage is paid for which probably increases the chances of it being returned. As long as you vote!
I have always voted absentee. I like sitting in the comfort of my home, going over the candidates and propositions. If I need to do a little research, I can do it right here at home. I used to mail it in, but lately, have been less trusting of government agencies, and the includes the US Postal Service. I dropped it off at city hall, and a couple of days later, I check the ballot trax website to confirm that it was received and counted.
Mail in. But I will tell my boss that I will go to the poll tomorrow so I could get a paid time off to go fishing!
I voted by instavote
My wife and I always vote in person for the presidential election. This quadrennial ritual is the way we quietly celebrate our sacred privilege and duty to our nation, and this year our duty to preserve our democracy.
It is a sacred privilege and duty. If you believe either candidate will preserve/end our REPUBLIC, then you have very little understanding of the power and/or authority of the office of President nor of the foundational pillars of our nation.
We dropped off ours at Martinez County Clerk’s office 3 weeks ago.
In person early voting.
In person, if you can’t show up knowing it’s the first Tuesday of November, every four years, thats on you!!! Stop the fraud of mail in absentee and drop boxes!!!
BARSTOOLATEDS,
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It isn’t the first Tuesday in November, it’s “The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election,” also known as “The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.”
Same difference, but just a flesh wound!
Why is it always in a Leap Year?
Drive it myself to martinez elections
Always in person unless I’m away on business, then by mail.
Dropped off at the county offices a few blocks away that has a ballot drop box. Received a text message that it has been received and counted.
Drop off and have a tracer on it that tells me where it is and when it gets processed.
I used to mail in, but in 2020 I noticed that my mail carrier obviously is not a fan of candidates I support as my political junk mail showed up crumpled up in a ball in my mailbox a few times. Nice enough guy face to face, but no way I’d trust him with my ballot. Now it’s to the county dropbox.
We voted in person, two weeks ago, and had to show ID. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my VA card is acceptable ID.
I dropped mine off at the Martinez County Clerk’s office 2 weeks ago.
I don’t like the sound of a paper shredder at those drop boxes 🙂
I went to the Post Office in person and dropped off my ballot into the mail box.
I even got confirmation days later that my ballot was received and counted but they did not confirm who I voted for…. but even if they did that, why should I believe them?
They confirm by the info on the envelope and they should once confirmed open the envelope and dump it into the bin or machine that is counting the votes. If they follow that then it would be difficult to know who and what you voted for.
Interesting observation on my very pleasant walk to my polling place this morning. Political signage in my neighborhood is very minimal, but there are a handful of homes that advertise their political leanings. I walked a slightly different route back home after voting. I noticed that every home that had Trump/Vance signage also prominently displayed the US flag, while on homes displaying Harris/Walz signage there were no US flags on display.
No conclusions are or should be drawn from my observation of a very small sample size.