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Old 10-09-2020, 05:24 PM
 
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I requested mine September 28, received it October 5th, and returned it today. My county has a secure drop box that is under 24/7 surveillance, so I went that route and avoided USPS shenanigans altogether.

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I can sit at home and fill out my ballot comfortably at my desk research judges I'm voting for drive down and drop it at the county office. Why would you want to stand in line with a bunch of people to only see your ballot for 5 minutes.
Same here. I don't understand the disdain for absentee voting. It actually gives you time to research the records of the candidates and judges you will be voting for. A more informed electorate will make better decisions 100% of the time.
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Old 10-09-2020, 05:34 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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I've never voted by mail before but I don't want to be exposed to the virus if I can help it so I mailed my completed ballot to our town services two days ago. It only traveled though my post office and to the town hall. So now I have voted and I think/hope I can trust the town hall more than I can trust what may have been done to the US post office.
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Old 10-09-2020, 05:36 PM
 
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I will go to the polls on Election Day. My feeling is, if I can go to the grocery store and Walmart, I can show up to vote, even at an advanced age.
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Old 10-09-2020, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I got mine yesterday and dropped it in an election office drop box. I trust the mail, but I felt like it would be easier to just drop it off at the place. Idk about other states, but PA has a portal you can track your ballot to be counted. So going to be checking that daily until confirmed.
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Old 10-09-2020, 07:44 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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I got mine yesterday and dropped it in an election office drop box. I trust the mail, but I felt like it would be easier to just drop it off at the place. Idk about other states, but PA has a portal you can track your ballot to be counted. So going to be checking that daily until confirmed.
In my state you get a text message when your ballot is mailed, another when it is received back, and another when it is tabulated - though you have to sign up for that. One can also check the elections computer for all of that. The west has been doing vote by mail for 20 years or more now, so its no big deal. I think that those doing it for the first time will never go back to standing in line again.
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Old 10-09-2020, 09:25 PM
 
Location: az
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Got mine today (In AZ)
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Old 10-10-2020, 07:12 AM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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I received the email informing me that it had been mailed to me. Fingers crossed there’s no delay in delivery.
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Old 10-10-2020, 09:31 AM
 
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It greatly pleases me to announce that my spouse and I received our ballots last week. We discussed a few ballot propositions. We selected our candidates, both local and presidential. We carefully entered required information, and sealed them. I took the ballots to a nearby dropbox. I felt relieved. BTW, when the ballots dropped in the box, there wasn't a hollow sound meaning there were other ballots.
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Old 10-10-2020, 10:34 AM
 
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Since I don't trust the Trump postal service I will be dropping my ballot off. How many have already received their ballot by mail. I have been voting by mail for 20 years in Arizona the system works great signature verified, and I can track my ballot online when it was processed.
If that is a picture of your actual ballot, you made a mistake and marked your ballot for a communist. Why would you wish for America to become a communist country?
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Old 10-10-2020, 12:07 PM
 
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Just got email notification that my ballot was received at the registrar of voters office where I live (mailed it Thursday).

So much for the TDS paranoia that USPS mail in ballots will be lost or delayed.
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