Early Voting

[mowens]

In my opinion anyway, voting early is worse than not voting at all.

As I said, voting early, it plays into their hand.

We will just disagree. I have no problem with what I saw.

[JParis]

We will just disagree. I have no problem with what I saw.

Yup and I will continue to push to end the act of voting early.

[Newbeeee™]

Yup and I will continue to push to end the act of voting early.

50 more mirobucks says "they" don't listen to you 

[JParis]

50 more mirobucks says "they" don't listen to you 

Won't be for the lack of trying though

[RobertELee]

I've never been in a voting precinct for more than 5 minutes. Rarely ever a line and if there is it's 1 or 2 people in front of me. The last election there were more workers than voters when I was there. IMO MN does a very good job at disbursing precincts (at least in the suburbs). Our normal precinct is less than 5 minutes away, and our early voting precinct is on the opposite side of town where we rarely ever go, so I have no reason to vote early anyway. Plus, I simply don't trust our .gov to properly secure these documents for 2 weeks.

[gcode]

My wife and I dropped our ballots in the mail at the local Post Office yesterday.
Our country mails ballots to every registered voter
They notify you by email when they mail the ballot, when they receive it back and when it has been counted.
That does not mean I trust them to count it accurately, but given the D to R ratio is Cali, they really have no reason to cheat.

[Jim at Gentex]

I've never been in a voting precinct for more than 5 minutes. Rarely ever a line and if there is it's 1 or 2 people in front of me.

Same.
I work at the polls, and for most of the day we seldom have more than 2 or 3 people waiting in line.

We get a small flurry of people who vote as soon as the polls open, before they go to work.
We get a midday flurry of people who vote on their lunch break, and some retired folks who like to vote after lunch.
And we get a flurry of people between about 4:30 to 6:30, after work and / or after dinner for most.

The rest of the day is usually slower, where we sometimes don't get anyone in to vote for stretches of 20 minutes to a half-hour.

After being Judge of Election in my district for so long, I pretty much know what time of day to expect certain people, and they always show up like clockwork!   

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Same.
I work at the polls, and for most of the day we seldom have more than 2 or 3 people waiting in line.

We get a small flurry of people who vote as soon as the polls open, before they go to work.
We get a midday flurry of people who vote on their lunch break, and some retired folks who like to vote after lunch.
And we get a flurry of people between about 4:30 to 6:30, after work and / or after dinner for most.

The rest of the day is usually slower, where we sometimes don't get anyone in to vote for stretches of 20 minutes to a half-hour.

After being Judge of Election in my district for so long, I pretty much know what time of day to expect certain people, and they always show up like clockwork!   

As someone who works at the polls, do you feel that your precinct/district handles the ballots securely, and do you think the ballots are counted accurately?

[Jim at Gentex]

As someone who works at the polls, do you feel that your precinct/district handles the ballots securely, and do you think the ballots are counted accurately?

The voters and ballots I can physically see, yes.

The mail-in ballots that I DON'T see, which is ALL of them, not so much.
Only because I am taking someone else's word for making sure they are all handled / counted correctly.

I have explained this before, that pre-COVID, we the local Election Board received ALL of our absentee / mail-in ballots for our district, sealed in their original envelopes, and at the close of the polls we could look at the signatures on the envelopes and compare them to the original signatures in the poll book, then open the envelopes and feed those ballots into the optical scanner to be counted.

NOW, (post-COVID) all of that happens at our County Voter Registration office, which in this particular county is 100% staffed by Democrats.
We do have ONE Republican on the County Election Board, (the *token* minority party County Commissioner) but he can't be everywhere at once to observe all of the 'official' counting of every mail-in ballot.

So as I stated here previously, IFFFFFFFF any malfeasance were to occur in my county, it would be the Democrats who would have the motive, means, and opportunity to do so.

With the current level of vitriol on both sides, and the outright hatred expressed on the fringes, it's difficult to trust 'the other guys', no matter which side of the political fence you are on. 

[Rstewart]

I had to do early voting cause I'm scheduled to fly back into the country on voting day...

[Bucky Cornstarch]

I've already mailed in my ballots for both Michigan and California, but still have to vote in person in Michigan on the 5th. I'll have my tenant in California vote for me in person there.

[Jeff]

Jocelyn Benson (SOS of Michigan) has been caught with 1.2 million ineligible voter records. Elon Musk called her out.

But get this, she doesn't plan on fixing that until AFTER the election. And that it's "disinformation". Typical response.

[Incogneeto]

Ehh!!

Just Burn Em'  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hundreds-of-ballots-are-destroyed-after-fires-are-set-in-ballot-drop-boxes-in-oregon-and-washington/ar-AA1t4ZdT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3702b68e8d514a3aadcaf4c4e5fe57c0&ei=24

[Incogneeto]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/printing-error-on-ballots-leaves-state-election-officials-scrambling/ar-AA1t5fi0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=d2704fc2e8094ad5ab1d27a871332d83&ei=154

Nothing to see here.

We'll just rescan them with a good bar code.

[RobertELee]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/printing-error-on-ballots-leaves-state-election-officials-scrambling/ar-AA1t5fi0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=d2704fc2e8094ad5ab1d27a871332d83&ei=154

Nothing to see here.

We'll just rescan them with a good bar code.

Just a month ago at the beginning of early voting, not far from me, Faribault County MN had misprinted their ballots for a Representative election. They reversed the Republican and Democrat labels for each candidate. How they figured it out was a voter went to the poles, saw the candidate they wanted to vote for had "changed their party affiliation" and was pissed so they voted for the other candidate. They emailed the candidate after they left with a displeasure of their change right before the election. Well the candidate got back to them and explained they were still the same party but dug deeper and figured out what had happened. I haven't heard more in what they needed to do to remedy the issue.