Tell us about your voting experience this election. Did you drop your ballot in a mailbox and forget it? Did you vote in person? Did you use paper or machine or a hybrid? Did anything weird happen when voting? I just want to know what voting is like across the country. I don't care who you voted for. I just want to know what the voting process is like in your state. Be sure to include which state you live in if you are comfortable with it. I'll go first. We arrived at the polling place for early voting. Mine is located in a large non-denominational church about 2 miles from my house. There were about 25 people in line and the wait was about 4 minutes. There were social distancing stickers on the ground for the line. Masks are not mandatory in my county in Texas, but my wife, son, and I were almost the only ones without a mask. I presented my ID, the poll worker lady asked if I still lived at the address on my DL. I signed for my ballot, which was a blank piece of paper except for some government use jibberish at the top. They gave me a Q-tip to use as a stylus at the voting machine. I inserted the ballot into the machine and my choices appeared on the screen for each race. I made my selections all the way through the ballot. When I finished, the screen prompted me to print my ballot. All of my selections were printed on my ballot. I reviewed my choices to make sure the ballot was accurate and inserted the completed ballot into the ballot box. I wore an "I smell hippies" t-shirt with a portrait of Ronald Reagan to the polling place. I placed my "I voted" sticker on Ronald Reagan's lapel and walked out.
I have voted twice this year in June and a couple of weeks ago in a runoff. Walked right in placed my license on a plastic platform were the poll worker looked at it and my picture, it was scanned in, I got my ballot, I sat down and marked my ballot, I then personally ran it through the tabulation machine and was out the door in under 5 minutes. Everyone wearing a mask, required to enter.
We filled out our ballots Saturday, signed them and dropped them at the USPS yesterday. I will confirm they were received and counted next week. If not, we will get a provisional ballot. All very smooth.
ME TOO. 27 TIMES. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, don't get your panties in a bunch, 27 times, hell I could only get my hands on 20 ballots actually. Kidding kidding, relax, relax, take a deep breath, hell its hard to get a hold of more than a dozen really........ breathe breathe.................unlike a democrat I only voted once. Relax. Calm down, go to a happy place........
Well, we received one ballot for each of us, and 60 more for dead people. So, it took us some time to fill out, but we got it done.
I will vote in person on election day if the line isn't long. My precinct isn't especially busy but it is at an elementary school that has the fewest number of parking spaces I have ever seen at a school and everything else is no parking fire lanes leading out to a no parking 4 lane road.
The wife and I voted a few days ago in Houston inside a nice shiny new community center. No waiting; but we did have to wear masks. Just walked up and then we had to lower our masks -- I kind you not -- to confirm that we looked like our driver's license picture, and then went to the booth with an issued finger glove -- very chic! -- dialed everything in, hit ENTER, double-checked that it was correct, and then exited. Easy peasy.
What the hell? You had to show ID, what kind of totalitarian government do they have down there in Houston. That was racist asking you for an ID. NOT ONLY THAT, but don't you know black people are unsure of how to get an ID, that's what they keep telling us, so you used your white privilege to vote, how shameful. Vote Biden he will solve everything, he has been working on a plan for 47 years, he is sooooooooo close we can't stop him now, paradise is just around the corner.
Voted early this morning. In and out in about 20 minutes. Also dropped off my wife's ballot while I was there too. Ridin with Biden!
I'm also in Texas (Montgomery County). I voted in person in New Caney on the morning of the 2nd day of voting. I had to wait over an hour. Nobody seemed to mind the wait - everybody on both sides seems to think it's worth the trouble.
I voted early, 15 days early in case I get quarantined for 2 weeks. Did that keep anyone from voting? I voted for Jo Jorgenson so I won't be responsible for anything that happens. I voted for the Republican challenger to our Senator. He was slaughtered. I voted for an independent for Congress. He came in third. I voted for myself for state senator and state house representative, because they were running unopposed. My one winning candidate was the mayor, because she bought campaign masks from me. For city council I voted for the 5 men with English surnames, then 2 French surnames. For school committee there were 5 candidates. It said vote for 5. I voted for 4 then wrote in my own name instead of the woman in the middle. There was only one ballot question here in Rhode Island. I voted to change the name from state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to state of Rhode Island. I don't care about the words, but want to save ink and paper. The name is changed.
I requested a mail-in ballot 10/1/2020, but didn't receive it until 10/26/2020. Filled it out, signed the envelope and returned it in person to the County Elections Admin on 10/29/2020. The clerk checked my ID, signed my ballot in on her tally sheet and put it in the machine. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes. Smith County, Texas
