Vote early, vote often

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No in-person voting here in my neck of he woods. I do not like that. I like ritual and routine, I like the standing in line, signing the forms, the little rickety privacy cubicle, etc. I cannot shake the feeling that vote-by-mail or absentee ballot is ripe for chicanery of the most vile kind. Yes, you could argue that the in-person voting methods are just as susceptible to fraud but it doesn’t feel like that to me nearly as much as this other method does.

17 thoughts on “Vote early, vote often”

  1. Agreed. Voting in FL this year. Voted early, but still in person. Don’t worry. There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud, *wink, wink*

  3. You must live near me. …Mail-n ballots… What could POSSIBLY go wrong?… Oh, wait; the list of actual “wrongs, going” is growing by the day…

    • A professor does a yearly demonstration of how voting machines are hacked with a phone in seconds. Many accounts of voting machines in Chicago area switching votes to democrats. Cemeteries and vacant lots voting in huge numbers. I was a election judge in my neighborhood for many years and had a lot of interesting encounters with attempted voting fraud,had enough of voters who only wanted to vote democrat party line-even in primaries.

  6. We have no choice either here in Oregon. We got our ballots 10/16 in the mail (registered voters only–wink, wink). Even though the envelope is “postage paid by addressee”, we will NOT be mailing them in. We will deliver them to the county clerks office on 11/3 in person and not before.
    I debated long and hard about whether or not to fly my Trump 2020–No More Bullsh*t flag, but had to conclude that it was not in my long term interest. There are a lot of them flying here in the Oregon Outback, but my personal OPSEC took priority for my house and truck (no bumper stickers at all). We do fly the stars and stripes, with a photocell spotlight to properly fly it at night, and that’ll have to do.

  7. My state has been all mail in for some time. This year a ballot was mailed to my PO Box, I filled it out and returned it to the same post office. Got a call a few days later that my signature wasn’t close enough to the one on file. I had to do it in person or they could send me a form to get notarized. My conclusion is that at least with this system there is very little risk of widespread fraud.

  8. Around here the in-person voting is staffed according to what TPTB want the outcome to be. Everyone knows what direction different polling stations sway. One year people had to wait in line 5 hours to vote in Democratic areas and 30 minutes in Republican areas. Two years later a vote on a local tax saw the reverse since TPTB wanted the tax hike approved. Where there is a will, there is a way. Democracy, free markets, and so on are abstract concepts that are easier to market than to implement. Someone always has their finger on the scale, pressing down. I do like the ceremony around voting in person. Feels more like voting.

  11. In Elmore County, Idaho, we normally have 8 polling stations open in our area. This year only one will be open or you can mail-in your vote after requesting a ballot on line. Early in-person voting began on 13 Oct at our County Court House. They had a tent set-up outside (normally you would have to go through security and vote in the hallway) with polling works there to check your ID and hand you a ballot, which you marked on the old rickety tables, then put in an enveloped, which you sealed and signed. Then another envelope you sealed and dropped it in the polling box in the tent. My wife and I voted that morning and were really impressed on how well they had their system set-up (had only been open for about 1/2 hour). Love voter ID and at least I know my vote made it in the right box to be counted. Still ticked off at our Secretary of State for not being able to get out ballots for the primary election due to issues with their website.

  12. Washington State is also a vote by mail State. We have the added luxury of individually barcoded ballots; (Do other States do this)?

    • Interesting…
      2 questions come to mind.
      1) what does the barcode actually say? (maybe scan it & let us know generally what kind of info)

      2) if the barcode is a name or serial number, what does that do to the concept of the secret ballot?

      If the barcode is tracking you personally, it’s probably not good.

  13. I’m voting in person. Here in oHIo you have to show a state issued photo ID. I use my Concealed Handgun License, mainly because it makes the snowflakes uneasy.
    On our computerized balloting machines when you’re finished voting it prints your votes on a roll of paper like a cash register paper and you can see your votes. I don’t know how that can be hacked but I’m sure that there’s a way.

  14. My CHL doesn’t work for voter id, even though it’s state issued, it’s not on the list of valid for voting ID. I tried for exactly the same reason…

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  15. Dem operative with Biden button on her shirt came to my door. Somehow she knew a resident here hadnt yet voted and asked for them by name. I asked why she’s here. She says she “wants to make sure we know how to vote.” I bet. More like attempting to influence someone’s vote.

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