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[shauni27]

no early voting in my stupid ass state.

[Deleted]

We voted absentee in our state of legal residence (not where we’re currently stationed), and got notice that our ballots have been received!

Lots of early voting going on in our very blue neighborhood where we currently live, and as of a few days ago our precinct had one of the highest rates of early voting in our state!

[kellady]

H and I just dropped off our ballots earlier today.  I buttoned my coat over my Kamala tee just in casee.  In case of what, I don’t know.  

[mrsslocombe]

Early voting in NY starts on Saturday. We're going sometime next week, I don't want to wait until Election Day.

[picksthemusic]

Just checked my ballot status and it's been accepted and added!

[lucybrown]

I’ll vote on Election Day. The last (and only) time that I voted early was in 2016. I’m too superstitious to ever do it again.

[heygrey]

I voted by absentee ballot in PA and received notification on Oct 15 that it was received.

[heygrey]

Oct 24, 2024 12:58:37 GMT -5 lucybrown said:

I’ll vote on Election Day. The last (and only) time that I voted early was in 2016. I’m too superstitious to ever do it again.

I will strongly encourage you to vote early so it is done. For my first election in Canada, I wanted to vote the day of and then my entire family came down with covid so we couldn’t leave the house. Thankfully it was a low stakes local election where most candidates were running uncontested, but in a year like this we need every vote secured.

ETA: assuming it is an option in your state, I realize it isn’t available everywhere

[bugandbibs]

I have my ballot, but there are a couple of items I need to do more research on before I vote. I will probably vote return my ballot this weekend.

[spindle92]

I really like waiting until the day of and feeling all the emotions in line but I'm taking my mom to early voting tomorrow so I will just vote then.

[beerlover]

Also old school here and like to vote in person. I like to walk to my polling place and then get a drink at the coffee shop nearby after, it's my Election Day routine!

[JayhawkGirl]

Voted the first day advanced polls were open. We’ve had record turnout for advanced voting.

Lovely side effect…. I’ve received only one text and zero calls since I voted.

[Velar Fricative]

Early voting starts on Saturday here. I am going to vote on Sunday. I love voting on Election Day but I’m too paranoid I’ll be sick or something.

[sent]

I opted for a mail-in ballot ever since it was offered to me post-COVID. I have the ballot and my plan is to walk it over to the ballot box in our downtown to get my steps in. My schedule has been insanity and I haven't had a chance to fill it out yet and have time to walk it over. But I'm on a deadline as we are heading out of town next Friday so I have to get it done ASAP.

[RoxMonster]

Early voting this weekend!

[thejen626]

Fun fact: I live in Oregon and have never voted in person! Our state is vote by mail. I love it. I filled out my ballot at home with my husband and kids, and dropped it off at the library the next day. So easy. Then I can go online and verify that it’s been received.

[basilosaurus]

I'm surprised at election guides being behind a paywall. What about league of women voters?

It can be a PITA to vote from overseas (my state is awesome about this), but I was encouraged by friends reporting drop boxes outside of embassies and consulates.

I can believe decause disenfranchisement but kinda not in 2024 that there are states without early voting. Many times I wouldn't have been able to vote in person day of. 12+ hour shifts and snow travel and long commutes don't make it easy. Another job I could travel a quick 10 minutes or be assigned 90+ miles away with not enough notice to request absentee.

Love that so many of you are taking kids. I never went with parents. And, while my school was a polling place, they just roped off the sole lecture hall.

[taratru]

Dropped off and already counted!

[InBetweenDays]

I can't update the poll but H dropped our ballots at the ballot box this evening!

[turkturkleton]

I picked yes, but really I need an option for "posted my ballot last week and am obsessively checking the status to make sure it arrives in time," which feels more accurate.

[babsbunny]

Voted today in person (took one hour). For those that don't know about red states (texas), I had 32 votes to cast and 15 were uncontested races (only one R candidate running so I abstained). Those were judges. Ugh.

[starlily]

Mailed in my ballot 10/19. It was received and counted by the evening of 10/21.

[minzy]

I early voted yesterday in Maryland in the first batch of people in the first moments it was an option. Then I left immediately after to go to Ohio to make a medical care team meeting for my dad. He is terminally ill and we’re done with chemo, so I was not/am not entirely sure I will return to Maryland before the election. I really wanted to get voting done.

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My daughters (13 and 11) wanted to come with me. We were maybe 15th in line at 7:00 am and got out by 7:15 (with maybe by then another 35 people behind us). We selected an old school ballot. I had them take turns filling in the various bubbles so I actually didn’t even do any myself. (I did preview everything in advance so knew what I was doing.) One filled the bubble for who I hope is our first female president; the other bubbled in our choice for the reproductive freedom amendment (yes please). It was certainly a PITA for my husband (who already voted by mail) to handle our simultaneous Dunkin run (the app glitched and I had absolutely no extra time to deal with it), and the following messed up school drops, etc., after, but it was totally worth it I think for my daughters to have core memories of voting as women for women, with their mom.

[tacokick]

Voted by mail in September and it’s been counted.

They send a “I voted” sticker with your ballot so we don’t miss out.

[neverfstop]

Done last night! They were out of stickers, but I took that as a good sign so many people were voting

@took both my girls and explained the process, talked about "teams" and why I just voted for 1 team, how our awful legislature did away with straight ticket voting to make it harder. We had some really good conversations about how the teams are different & what each team wants (schools, guns, environment). I sill have trauma from voting with them in 2016 & being so excited thinking we'd have our first female POTUS (

[mcppalmbeach]

Oct 24, 2024 14:36:20 GMT -5 spindle92 said:

I really like waiting until the day of and feeling all the emotions in line but I'm taking my mom to early voting tomorrow so I will just vote then.

I normally do this also and take the kids along for the experience. I voted by mail this time. I’m in a red area and I just don’t even want any part of it.

[mcppalmbeach]

Oct 25, 2024 6:02:19 GMT -5 neverfstop said:

Done last night! They were out of stickers, but I took that as a good sign so many people were voting

@took both my girls and explained the process, talked about "teams" and why I just voted for 1 team, how our awful legislature did away with straight ticket voting to make it harder. We had some really good conversations about how the teams are different & what each team wants (schools, guns, environment). I sill have trauma from voting with them in 2016 & being so excited thinking we'd have our first female POTUS (

Girl, same. It felt so remarkable. And here we are. Xoxo.

[candreco]

I'm planning to vote in person on election day since DD will be volunteering as a page and I want an excuse to see her there. DH has his absentee ballot sitting at home, I need to bug him to find out if he'll be home in time to mail it in or drop it off.

[dcn]

I realized last week that we hadn’t received our absentee ballots yet which was strange. We vote in our state of residence due to military assignment. I then realized it was bc we never requested them, Woops. We sent the requests out Monday and I received my ballot yesterday via email. I assume H did as well. I will print and fill it out and return it today or tomorrow.

[mala]

Voted early.