No Matter Where You Are
This is a super duper handy guide to voting laws in your state. Can you track your mail ballot? When is the registration deadline? Can you vote by mail because you’re afraid of getting Covid? The answer are all here.
What you’re gonna discover is that you can’t hardly vote in the South.
And here’s the dilemma. It’s so hard to vote in my state that I have to make a check list for myself before I leave home. Yet somehow people who follow QAnon and are so delusional that they believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton have already been executed and that Trump is going to show it on Pay Per View after he’s reelected, seem to have all this stuff figured out. And those with an 8th grade education who think it would be cool to kill a libtard by giving them Covid just march right in, cough in my face, and vote for every damn fool on the ballot.
Ya think maybe some libtards (I mean that as a compliment) with a vile sense of humor are trolling these idiots? I don’t think they have the imagination to come up with some of this stuff.
1I voted early for the first time in 2016 because the campaign had me so upset that I thought I would feel better once I had voted. It didn’t work. However, I will have two weeks to vote early and I think I will take advantage of that. We will all be automatically getting mail-in ballots this year; but, I’m gonna give the Post Office a break. I think they could use it.
I hope that DC will become like Washington and Oregon and have all vote by mail elections, after this is done. Standing in long lines on a single day seems stupid.
2BarbinDC … Colorado has mail-in ballots, as well. I always take my ballot to the County offices and drop it into the dropbox … that way I know it is there and delivered!
3Thanks for this, JJ. It should be shared far and wide. This mail situation has me more scared than anything else the conman has done, and that’s saying a lot.
4Miss JJ! You’ve hit the nail on her head by pointing out that southern states have the most extreme voting laws. It goes along with extreme views, from the serious – how we view non-white folk – to the silly, bbq pork or beef. I don’t know about other states, but Texas has spent a couple generations starving schools and thereby reducing the population able to think for themselves. We need to remember this in November, 2022 and elect state officials who can think of our next generations and not just their next election!
5Oregon has a great system. For all the readers out there if you know anyone who has been it is imperative that they update their voter information with the correct address
6Thanks, JJ! Will check things out in my location! I’m betting that i will be the only one in the office to do so!
7Who knew that there was a state worse than Florida? Or that I’ve lived there, too?
Missouri wins!
1] Can I vote by mail without an excuse?
Florida – Y
Missouri – Not till now but, these days, Covid-19 can be the excuse. For the moment.
2] Can I register to vote and cast my ballot on the same day?
Florida – N
Missouri – N
3] Can I vote before election day?
Florida – Only in person
Missouri – N
4] After I vote by mail, can’t I track my ballot?
Florida – Y
Missouri – N.
Now about that #3 — I’m confused.
Click around the various offices in Pinellas County and they all list drop-off points you can take your ballot to but say, “Not available on election day.”
Wait — doesn’t that amount to early voting by mail???
But they apparently told NBC otherwise.
8Way to keep things murky Florida. Don’t let anyone say you’re not living down to your reputation.
Oh, and one more thing:
9Mail in ballots [everywhere in the country] must be either postmarked by or in the state’s custody BY election day. THAT is early voting by mail, too, isn’t it? So how does the statement, “Early voting ‘only in person / not by mail,'” makes no sense at all, right? Or am I missing something?
@Marcia in CO: That’s another option I am contemplating. I just need to know where to drop it off. In any event, it will either be within walking distance or a short subway ride for me.
10When times were dire at Valley Forge, General Washington and his valiant volunteers were barely hanging on, yet they persevered and returned to fight and established the United States of America, that has survived as the ideal beacon of Democracy. Can we afford to do any less?
11No real problem in my state. I’ll use a drop box and go early. But I had already decided that you couldn’t keep me away from a polling place if it came to that. You can get a disposable hazmat suit on Amazon for $15.
12I never understood why CT, the land of steady habits, doesn’t have early voting. In any case, spouse thinks we should just mask up and go down to the village fire station. We have paper ballots with scanners and there’s seldom a line.
13Had to laugh at Oregon answer, no, you can’t vote early in person. Which is because none of us vote in person. I just hope the county clerks will mail out ballots earlier than normal in case of postal delay. We’ll drop ours off at the secure box at the county courthouse which is a few minutes drive from our house. Because our town isn’t all that big. 😉
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