Posted in the other one. now I’m in line and can confirm lines are LONG! It’s also raining in some parts of Miami and Broward but people are not moving!
Posted in the other one. now I’m in line and can confirm lines are LONG! It’s also raining in some parts of Miami and Broward but people are not moving!
I'm glad people are enthusiastic, and angry as hell at the Republican party doing their all to keep lines long to discourage people from voting.
Post by Velar Fricative on Oct 19, 2020 8:31:18 GMT -5
Saturday is our first day of early voting, and NY is relatively new to early voting so this will be my first time doing it. I will be absolutely thrilled if I have to wait on line. I never have to here, so a line would be telling. Though I also need to keep in mind that we also have very enthusiastic Trump support here so it could very well be that the line of voters can't wait to vote for Trump either.
Saturday is our first day of early voting, and NY is relatively new to early voting so this will be my first time doing it. I will be absolutely thrilled if I have to wait on line. I never have to here, so a line would be telling. Though I also need to keep in mind that we also have very enthusiastic Trump support here so it could very well be that the line of voters can't wait to vote for Trump either.
I've voted early in NY and the waits were minimal the 2 times I did it. This year I think the first weekend will see lines but the weekday voting will be lighter with 10-15 mins waits. I also live in an area that over-indexes on office jobs where voting on the weekend would be easier given work schedules. If you live where folks are working more weekends then the lines might be there everyday.
Saturday is our first day of early voting, and NY is relatively new to early voting so this will be my first time doing it. I will be absolutely thrilled if I have to wait on line. I never have to here, so a line would be telling. Though I also need to keep in mind that we also have very enthusiastic Trump support here so it could very well be that the line of voters can't wait to vote for Trump either.
I've voted early in NY and the waits were minimal the 2 times I did it. This year I think the first weekend will see lines but the weekday voting will be lighter with 10-15 mins waits. I also live in an area that over-indexes on office jobs where voting on the weekend would be easier given work schedules. If you live where folks are working more weekends then the lines might be there everyday.
Lots of public servants here like police, firefighters, sanitation plus lots of healthcare workers too, so it's hard to predict. But I want to vote asap. I'm so ready.
Post by blanchedevereaux on Oct 19, 2020 9:14:14 GMT -5
I voted last week and it was a great experience. Lines wrapped all the way around the building, yet moving very quickly. Many, many D candidates were there talking to voters and handing out D sample ballots. I did not see a single R sample ballot in sight. Everyone wore a mask, even the one I guy I saw in a Trump hat. I'm so relieved to have gotten it out of the way. I keep trying to tell my H to go vote early; I'm so paranoid he is going to have to be quarantined due to COVID and won't be able to vote on the day of.
I was shopping this weekend and Advent Calendars are already out, which is way too early, but I grabbed one. I made it my election count-down calendar. It really should be filled with wine and hard liquor, but chocolate is always good too.
This is PA's first year with no-excuse mail-in voting. Conveniently, the voting reforms were passed last year by the GOP legislature in conjunction with our Dem governor, and did things like lengthen the voting registration time (today is the last day to register in PA!) and a few other things, including introducing mail-in voting without an excuse needed. I took advantage of it during the primaries and it worked well. (Previously, I was a permanent absentee voter in California and loved it.)
I applied for my mail-in ballot back in July. Then all the issues with the post office started and I tried to see if I could cancel it in September. They told me it was too late because it was already being processed. So my next choice was to take the entire ballot with me to the polls and have it spoiled and then vote in person. But apparently only one person at the polling place can officially do it, so I was nervous about this actually working and being forced into a provisional ballot instead.
SO I filled out the mail-in ballot, but I dropped it off in an official county drop box (not a fake Republican one). It was manned by two workers in masks and gloves who made sure it inserted it properly (they don't touch it) and then they hand you a sticker! Best of both worlds, because the drop off is set up outside, and I see people on our governor's FB page talking about how they are going to vote IN PERSON and WITHOUT a mask, so this seemed both safe and effective. I can also track it online and see when it's accepted.
Post by rouquinette on Oct 19, 2020 9:47:17 GMT -5
Our first day of early voting (LA) was Thursday. I went Friday after work. I was pleasantly surprised; from the time I got out of my car to the time I was back in driving away was only 20 minutes, and this was with having to walk around to the other entrance of the building since I parked on the opposite side.
hocus2, Velar Fricative, I'm in NY too (outside Albany, east side of the river) and looking forward to voting early. I'm not expecting long lines but I'll wait until Monday or Tuesday to go. I live within a mile of the polling place, so I can turn around and try later if the lines look bad. (I'd be very surprised if my lines were anything more than 10 minutes or so.)
"In any case, Undecideds still have a couple more weeks. America’s most famous undecided voter has made his decision: Ken Bone has announced he will be voting for Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen, making him the most hated kind of voter of all: a third-party voter."
Look, I know no demographic is a monolith, but even with some of the reasons outlined in this piece, I'm still flummoxed by some Black and Latinx voters seeing what's happened these last four years and becoming *more* supportive as Trump if they weren't in 2016.
Look, I know no demographic is a monolith, but even with some of the reasons outlined in this piece, I'm still flummoxed by some Black and Latinx voters seeing what's happened these last four years and becoming *more* supportive as Trump if they weren't in 2016.
I do understand why the the campaign appeals to men regardless of race and and I also think a lot of less engaged voters are far less aware of twitter/mass media and make their decisions based on specific policy views regarding taxes, regulation, Cuba, Israel, guns etc. I think the Trump election has been working very hard for 4 years on micro outreach with highly tailored messages. My rep mentioned that this is an area where democrats need to improve. We have to speak to communities all the time. Not just as part of elections and not with broad communications but with targeted communications that resonate in their communities.
Politico talked with more than 20 Democratic strategists, lawmakers, pollsters and activists who explained that many Black and Latino men are open to supporting Trump as they think the Democratic Party has taken them for granted. The same can’t be said of Black and Hispanic women, though, and the gender gap among nonwhite voters is shaping up to be even bigger than it was in 2016.
The election feels so close and yet so far away at the same time.
Yes! I was just saying this. October 15th is a major work deadline and the election felt like it was so close because of that and time was going by way too fast. But now it’s been like, 2 years since October 15th!
Wtf!!! I have serious rage about this. I hope they catch whoever set this fire and give them a long sentence. I also hope they can try to reach out to anywho may have potentially used this box and had their vote destroyed.
I love this. It's so well done. And everyone I follow on twitter who knows what a big thing it is for this to be the first time the Beastie Boys have allowed their music to be used this way was like "damn." It says a lot.
I think I'm going to try to figure out our early voting today. They moved the location from city hall to the salvation army (which I'm side eyeing in general) but there is literally one sign outside the CH saying this, half the people I've talked to don't even know where the SA location is, and I have no idea where to go once I'm there, which really kicks up my anxiety.
I really feel like they did this to make it more difficult to early vote under the excuse of "distancing."
But Mr. Trump had other things on his mind. “People are tired of Covid,” he complained about the coronavirus. “People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.”
He called Dr. Fauci a “nice” guy, but said, “He’s been here for 500 years,” and added, “Every time he goes on television, there’s always a bomb, but there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him. This guy’s a disaster.”
Mr. Trump has also bristled at Dr. Fauci’s superior approval ratings, particularly when it comes to trustworthiness. A poll released late last month by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation found that 68 percent of Americans trusted Dr. Fauci either a great deal or a fair amount to provide reliable information about the virus, while only 40 percent trusted Mr. Trump.