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This is the “My Voting Today Experience Thread”
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[quote:Paul Drake:MV8zOTI3Njg0XzcwODg4MjQwXzUxNTA0MDFC] [quote:Half Past Midnight:MV8zOTI3Njg0XzcwODg2NjQ4X0I4NUQxN0M2] [quote:Deplorable NO MORE Michele B:MV8zOTI3Njg0XzcwODg2MDg3XzgwREEzOUU5] [quote:Martha m'Dear:MV8zOTI3Njg0XzcwODg0MTcwXzMyRUQxMjM5] [quote:Paul Drake:MV8zOTI3Njg0XzcwODgyNTQwXzNCQTJCNkZB] Thanks for starting this OP. Here's what I had posted earlier. I'm in California. This year we received a postcard from our official California voter people. It said that we live in a precinct with less than 250 registered voters so we HAD to vote by mail this year. When we look up online for our polling place, we are met with the same information online - no polling place. Our polling place has always been 3 houses away from us (across the street) and we generally handcarry our ballots there, or surrender and vote on premises, just to make sure our vote is counted on the day, and not in a month (or never for all we know). Its nice to see neighbors and chat about the voting turn out, etc. With a city of over 65,000 people I wanted to see a precinct map, still unable to comprehend how there are only 250 registered voters in our precinct. Well woke up this morning to a street full of parked cars - look across the street and guess what - [b]there is the same old polling place up and running[/b]! What in Sam Hell is going on here? Second issue - my son was issued a vote by mail ballot - he lives about a mile from me - his ballot never showed up so he wrote the voting folks, who suspended his original ballot and reissued another ballot to him. It took [b]7[/b] business days for this new ballot to arrive - which actually arrived yesterday in his mailbox. The cutoff date to have it in the mail was..... YESTERDAY! If he had been unable to get around he couldn't just mail his ballot back through his mailman - and by the time he got home from work and voted on his ballot it was 5:30 at night - on a whim I drove him out to the post office and luckily they stayed open until 6 pm and we handed that ballot to a post office worker instead of putting in a bin somewhere that might not have been postmarked in time had we done that. He said 'mom I swear this is designed so I can't vote'. I think he's right. I'll post again after I visit our neighbors who hold the polling place. Honestly right now I'm very pissed off that we were treated differently than other folks. Something up with that!!! [/quote] Our polling place in our area was also changed! The lady at the number I called to find out where to go swore up and down that she'd taken out ads in the paper, (which we don't get) and had ads running during the noon farm ag report on the local radio,(we don't have a reason to listen to). Once at the NEW place, it was packed. No, I can't have a paper ballot, no, the machine didn't issue receipts. I made very sure that the screen had not flipped my votes only to forget that I had to check that damn paper roll to the side to make sure that jived with the screen. I AM PISSED! [/quote] It SUX to have to be so CAREFUL about voting in the good ole U.S. of A. where voting should be honest, easy and above-board. [/quote] You people need to start voting absentee. You go online to request to have your ballot mailed to you, you fill it out & mail it back. Easy Peasy. I voted red absentee 6 weeks ago. [/quote] If you read my post about my son's mail ballot you'll understand why I posted his experience here. NOT so easy peasy - he almost didn't get to vote at all due to his ballot being stolen or lost. My promised update: My husband walked across the street to make sure our names were not on the rolls anymore since we were forced to vote by mail, and our names were not on there. The people there had no idea that a sliver of the neighborhood had been required to vote by mail - had no idea why only a sliver of the neighborhood was forced to do so. [/quote]
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Already saw two posts today’s that were interesting, to say the least.
One, someone wrote their daughter in CT went in to vote and noticed TWO others listed at their address on the list. The person lives alone....poll workers marked the entries if the people try to come in today and vote they will be stopped. Then said a murmur ran through the workers as they noticed a few other “duplicates” too.
She also commented that there ARMED POLICE there. Maybe expecting some trouble today. Makes me think of the early days in Iraq after the war, when people literally took their lives in their hands for the privilege of participating in the democratic process of voting. How the hell did America slide this far Way from oir basic beliefs?
Anyway, more on topic: I just thought we needed a thread to keep track of what’s going on at polling stations around the country Tell us where you are (you can just put the state if you want to maintain your anonymity),what you saw or experienced and how busy it was.
I voted early to avoid the polls but I expect there will be plenty of folks with “a story of their experiences” today!
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