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I used to think that early voting should not be allowed as Election Day seemed sacred and there is something special to walk into the voting booth, but now that we do 100% of our voting in Colorado via mail, I would not want it any other way.
For the last several years we were in Florida, we voted with absentee ballots. We were going to vote here in Tennessee today, but my wife had some surgery on her arm this morning, so we voted early. Never have felt voting absentee/early as being a problem. The easier we make it to vote, the more people will vote. But then again, I'm not on the conspiracy theory train.
My entire state is vote by mail. There are no polling places. Love it. I vote in the privacy of my home after carefully researching all the issues, about 2 weeks before election day. I could just drop my ballot in the mail, but I usually drive it to the ballot collection box at the county office.
The reason to vote early is that then you can go up on the state site and make sure your ballot was received. If it hasn't been, you can go to the county office and get a provisional ballot.
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I love it. It is so easy to vote. Why would anyone go stand in line for hours and miss school or work when they can do a paper ballot in their home two weeks ahead of crunch day?
I actually was able to research every judge and state official on the ballot. And I've checked online--our county tracks all the absentee ballots. It shows received.
After seeing all of these crazy lines in voting places I could understand why some would do mail in. I would not want to spend 2 hours in jam packed zoo waiting to vote. I am very grateful for my voting location. Never waited more than a few minutes and I can walk to it from my house.
I have no problem with it except that I do wonder if there is more room for fraud or "lost" votes.
Someone posted in one of these political threads a few days ago that they work in a post office in Florida and they are throwing away all ballots that come in for the Republican candidates. I wanted to assume that they were joking, and hopefully they were, but they certainly did not have a joking attitude about it, they were very angry sounding. I'm not sure how they could tell if the ballot was for the Republican or the Democrat short of opening it. Isn't tampering with U.S. mail a felony?
Really hoping that they were either joking or that they get caught red handed (no pun intended) if they weren't.
I live in a big city (St. Paul) and my place is a couple blocks from my house. Never once have I had to wait more than a few minutes. I don't understand where people are having to wait 2 hours.
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Originally Posted by subaru5555
Yea, how Un-American of them to ensure that all citizens have the ability and time to vote....
Not.
Because it was such a problem for the last...200 years? Only now, all of a sudden, it is a problem?
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