How is everyone voting...

[Opbrg]

In person or mail in?

I requested an absentee ballot (Ohio) but am concerned now that my vote won't count even if I get it in early. I can vote in person but my spouse is high risk so we just requested absentee ballots for safety reasons.
Trump is such an asshole!

[still_one]

1. I am in California, and will doing it by mail.

[Demsrule86]

4. Can you early vote?

[still_one]

10. Yes, and I will be sending it in the day after I receive my ballot

Early voting in California begins October 5

[Demsrule86]

55. Good.

[still_one]

64. and I will be checking the staid to make sure they received it after a week of mailing it?

How are you going to vote?

[Demsrule86]

2. In person...I want to make sure the orange piece of shit is out.

[Sherman A1]

3. Mail

ballots arrived yesterday. Will do some research on a couple of local issues and vote over the weekend. I figure over a month is plenty of time for them to get back to the Board of Elections.

[Tracer]

5. In person. And early.

My town is somewhat low-risk. Approximately 250 total cases out of 16,000 population.

[Kitchari]

6. Early and in person n/t

[FM123]

7. We are helping my 92 year old dad fill out his mail in ballot

but the rest of us - the whole family and all of our friends - we are ALL voting early and in person! This is Florida with 29 precious electoral votes, we can not take a chance with DeSatan and Lee at the helm. While by nature I am a worry wart, I am going to push my fears aside, show up suit up and will fight to the death. It comes down to the death of democracy or the death of trumpdictatorship and I prefer the latter.

[cry baby]

8. In person and as soon as possible, mid-October. nt

[Bettie]

9. I live in a county that is assumed to be red in Iowa

I'm getting my absentee ballot, making an appointment to go to the courthouse (because you need an appointment now) and I will hand it to the person in the elections office myself, with my husband.

My two voting age kids are going to vote in person on election day at our home. I have promised them lasagna since they will be driving down from college for this.

[bdamomma]

11. President Obama would like to know also

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/northamerica-top-stories/obama-shares-phone-number-to-find-out-how-americans-are-planning-to-vote/ar-BB19nqjr?li=BBKxOg5&ocid=mailsignout

[PRETZEL]

12. County drop box

our county just announced a few days ago additional drop boxes. Luckily for us, one of those new sites is only a few blocks away.

[Amishman]

13. in person, don't quite trust my vote to get where it needs and to be counted otherwise

[bamagal62]

14. In person and early.

[TEB]

15. In person

[RazzleCat]

16. in person, again yelling the following

Please vote in person unless the following apply

1. You voting system has no paper trail.

2. You are immune compromised to the extent that you do not leave the house at all.

3. Your state already uses vote by mail by default.

I want mail in voting, but not this election, this one is too important. My gut says that tRumps plan is to declare victory on election night, and work to disallow all mail in absentee ballots. So please vote in person.

If you tell me, they moved the polling place I can't get there, the lines are too long, I am worried about covid. My responses are, call your local headquarters, they will get you their. Take the day off (better one days lost wages than a life of tyranny). I worry about covid, my response if you grocery shop, then you can do the polling place lines. Mask up wear gloves, demand space. Do not let this man win.

[we can do it]

58. Early voting in person even better.

[Abnredleg]

17. Dropped Off my absentee ballot last week /NT

[Dustlawyer]

18. Early in person!!!

[Mrs. Overall]

19. Mail in (that's how WA State has been doing it for years).

[LuvJoesPartner]

20. California early voting 🗳

[CabalPowered]

21. In person

My polling location is 200 yards from my front door.

[NRaleighLiberal]

22. Early vote, in person

[liberalmuse]

23. By mail.

But I always drop my ballot off at our neighborhood ballot box. If it’s getting a little too full for my liking, I’ll drive up to the Everett courthouse and drop it off there like I did in 2008. I will be handing in my ballot earlier than usual this year and photographing it like I did when I voted for HRC (for posterity). Then I check on line to make sure my vote was counted. I’m really neurotic about my vote. It’s my only real power as a citizen.

If you get your ballot in early, it should not be thrown out. I have relatives in Ohio. I’ll ask my 101 year old grandma About it. She used to volunteer for the Campaigns and elections and all my family there are hardcore Democrats. She will get her ballot in early given her age.

[we can do it]

59. You can vote early in person in Ohio.

[rownesheck]

24. I'm early voting.

I'm taking off work the first day of early voting. I hope to be waiting in a long ass line for hours. Huge turnout favors us. I'm also taking off work November 3 and 4 because I will either be celebrating or jumping off a cliff.

[DeminPennswoods]

25. In PA and in person

Our county had no issues during the June primary, every polling place was open and staffed.

[Best_man23]

26. Virginia, early voting in person.

We have a satellite voting center at a regional airport and we're going there. Our neighbor is voting by mail. She is elderly and we offered to drive her to the Election Supervisor's office so she can deliver the ballot in person. There are dropboxes, but I don't trust the Trumpanzees won't steal or vandalize them.

[luvs2sing]

27. I'm in Ohio, too.

Hubster and I are both high risk, so we requested absentee ballots. We are lucky enough to live five minutes from our county BOE, so we will return them to the drop box there on the day we receive them.

I may be wrong, or it just may be in my county, but I thought absentee and early voting ballots were counted first. Maybe it’s just early voting ballots. This is so damn confusing!

[LisaL]

49. In OH they will start counting your absentee ballots before the election.

So don't worry.

[we can do it]

60. 👍🏼

[Opbrg]

65. That's good to know

[redstateblues]

28. Early in person

[jpak]

29. Going to get my absentee ballot at my town office - fill it out and turn it in within minutes

Next Wednesday - rain or shine.

[LisaL]

30. Once you requested absentee ballot in OH you are not allowed to change your mind.

The only way you can vote in person is provisional ballot on election day. Provisional ballots are not counted until 10 days after the election.
So at this point you have to vote absentee.
You can drop it off at the drop box that should be located at your county's election board.

[Rice4VP]

31. So vote in person then if you're worried

Go early, put on a mask, and be done with it

[LisaL]

33. Please don't give such bad advice.

Once requested absentee in OH, you can't vote in person on a regular ballot. Only provisional.

[Rice4VP]

39. How is this bad advice?

If she’s worried about her mail in ballot isn’t the obvious solution to vote in person? I don’t live in Ohio, but I heard that they have drop boxes so that’s another option.

I voted with a mask in person early on Monday. However, only one other person was there so it was safer than a trip to Walmart

[LisaL]

41. It's bad advice because once you request absentee in OH you can't vote in person on a regular

ballot. You are not allowed.
Seems simple enough. OP requested an absentee ballot. Her only option now is to vote absentee. She will be allowed to vote provisional only on election day if she doesn't vote absentee, but provisional ballots are not counted until 10 days after the election.

[Rice4VP]

43. Oh, well I didn't know that

[LisaL]

46. The absentee ballot form to request OH ballot says

"I understand that if an absentee ballot is mailed to me and I change my mind and go to my polling place to vote on
Election Day, I will be required to vote a provisional ballot."
https://www.ohiosos.gov/globalassets/elections/forms/11-a_english.pdf

I am trying to find out if you can still do early voting but no luck so far.

[we can do it]

62. You can drop off absentee ballot at board of elections.

[LisaL]

71. Yep, there should be a drop box at each board of elections.

NT

[we can do it]

73. Safest and fastest way to vote.

[Opbrg]

67. That's what I thought.

If Ohio starts counting them before election day then it should be okay. As soon as I get them we will fill them out and I will take them to the Board of Elections and drop them off.

[LisaL]

72. They do start counting them before the election, so that's not a worry.

I am trying to figure out of you can still decide to vote in person early. You can't on election day because they will make you get a provisional ballot. Not sure about voting early and brining your absentee ballot with you. Will they let you vote early? I can't find that info in official rules.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

32. i requested an absentee ballot. will drop in box at early voting site.

[rso]

34. Voting

Depositing our ballots in a ballot box located in a nearby library. We’re in a mostly blue county in Florida.

[Tanuki]

35. I plan to vote early in person ASAP, which for my location will be

October 14. I was originally planning to vote by mail for the first time due to the pandemic but will take every precaution and go to the polling place per usual instead.

[LisaL]

36. I am voting in OH by absentee.

Once ballot is requested, you are locked into this option.
I requested mine a long time ago.
Get it out early and realize that there are whole states that only vote by mail.
Drop it into a drop box next to your county's board of election if you don't trust it to be mailed back. Do it as early as possible.
Then your ballot should be counted even before the election day.

[we can do it]

63. Summit county has indoor drop box if you're extra concerned.

[Sunsky]

37. Early in-person vote in FL nt

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

38. Both the wife and I will be voting absentee as usual

and drop off our ballots instead of mail them in.

[kwolf68]

40. Pittsburgh PA here

We will vote in person, my wife and newly minted registered voter, my daughter. That will be 3 in the proper column.

[LexVegas]

42. In person, on election day. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

44. I think I'll vote "Democrat", thanks for asking. ;)

It'll take a few days to fill in the absentee ballot. I have to try to research some of the "non-partisan" candidates to figure out which might be Democrats.

Then we'll drive our ballots to city hall, put them in the clerk's hands.

[LuckyCharms]

45. My intent is to make another phone call to my

County Board of Elections. I've already called twice and talked to the same woman. She knows my name. We make small talk when I call.

I am going to verify with her that:

1) I can track my ballot online to the point where I can determine that it was received.

2) I am going to ask her if I can call her after I mail my ballot back to she if she will tell me personally that it has been received.

If I can verify both of the above, I am voting by mail. If not, I'm voting in person. My polling place usually is not too crowded.

My ballot should arrive here this week.

[mindfulNJ]

47. In person on Election Day.

My state doesn't have early voting unfortunately. I live in the smallest town by population so there is never more than a few people in line. I'll be there when the doors open.



I CAN"T WAIT.

[femmocrat]

48. PA. Mail-in ballot.

(Not absentee). I am immune-suppressed and afraid of in-person voting. Too many people outside who love to chat. Most of these hicks around here don’t wear masks.

I requested our ballots on Sept. 1. Still waiting, but there were some court cases to settle here.

[Golden Raisin]

51. In person and in early voting.

I'm in Manhattan and our "early" voting doesn't commence until October 24th, basically a little more than a week before Election Day. I'm definitely annoyed the early voting period in NY State is not longer, especially reading on DU and elsewhere how other states have already started. I am old with underlying conditions but after a great deal of thought made the decision for early in person.

[Delmette2.0]

52. Montana has let each county decide about mail in ballots.

Six of the rural counties with very low COVID-19 infections have decided for in person voting. The other 50 counties have decided for all mail in ballots.

I'm voting by mail and that is fine with me. I have seen a mix of masks v no masks. I cannot take the risk from the no maskers.

[DFW]

53. I voted yesterday. Mailed in my ballot, as I am 5000 miles from my polling place.

But Dallas is usually pretty good about absentee voting. I don't know about the rest of Texas.

[KewlKat]

54. My state is mail in but we drop them in the drop box

[ok_cpu]

56. Early in person n/t

[we can do it]

57. Early, dropping off at board of elections ballot box.

[AngryOldDem]

61. First day of early voting in late October.

[Klaralven]

66. By mail, but it won't matter. There is no possibility that Biden won't win here.

Unfortunately, it's also unlikely that our Republican representative can be dislodged.

[Karma13612]

79. Sounds like my district - NY-21

Elusive Elise Stefanik is loved by the military so she panders directly to that voting group, at the expense of the rest of her red/blue/purple HUGE district.

If Tedra Cobb doesn’t succeed this time (2nd attempt), then she will probably not try again.

[ellie]

68. I'm in Colorado

so I vote by mail and drop my ballot in a drop box near my house.

[whistler162]

69. NY - Mailed my ballot on Wednesday

First time ever. Previously I have voted on or near Walter Cronkite's birthday.

[hamsterjill]

70. Texas here.

I’ll be there in person first day of early voting.

[jpljr77]

74. Early in person, and I'll be a polling place volunteer on Nov. 3 because I'm 43 and in good health.

I'm hoping to give my at-risk neighbors, who typically work the polling places, a break on election day so they don't have to potentially sacrifice their lives for democracy.

[Solly Mack]

75. Early and in person.

[madwivoter]

76. Requested absentee ballot by mail

Will complete and drop at the clerks office tomorrow (received our ballots a few days ago).

In Wisconsin.

[Spider Jerusalem]

77. I am in California; I will receive a ballot in the mail and hand-deliver it to a drop box (n/t)

[Karma13612]

78. Early in-person

In a rural area of NY.
The state and our area are enjoying low COVID stats at the moment so I feel confident. Mask up, show up, make my vote count ASAP.

I agree with your assessment of the current pResident taking up space in the people’s grand maison blanche.

Best wishes!