I dropped mine off a couple of weeks ago. Michigan has no reason needed absentee voting. I checked online to see if it was received and noticed that I can get emails so I signed up for that for future elections.
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Dropped the ballot in a secure lockbox a couple weeks ago, and got a text on Halloween that my ballot was received & counted. Happy pumpkin day to me!
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I wish Massachusetts texted! We dropped our ballots off the weekend before Halloween and had to look up the tracking. The Secretary of State thinks I have two last names instead of just one so I thought for a day they’d lost my ballot.
I’m waiting to fix it until after the election though just in case changing my name messes something up.
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Voted early a week or two ago. DH is working the polls as an election judge and has reported a steady stream of voters all day (Chicago suburbs).
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Colorado here, dropped off my ballot Sunday before last and confirmed it went through a couple days later (not signed up for texts)
ETA–I love the unaffiliated voting in CO getting to choose between ballots in the primary, just because it means if one ballot has almost no choice (Dem in my area had I think one option that was an actual vote this year unless you were writing in candidates), I can still try to pick reasonably sane people on the other
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NC here! Bro, Dad, and I all voted in person Saturday before last. This was Dad’s first time voting in a presidential election, second time overall.
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MA here. Voted! Had to drive 2hrs round trip because of SNAFU reasons. But did the thing.
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Mine’s been counted!
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I am seeing a lot of stories about women not being allowed to vote by a man (or men) in their life - or being told who to vote for. Which just shocks me because my grandmother (who was born in the 1800s) voted and apparently my dad grew up hearing his parents raz each other about cancelling out the others vote. I think if my grandfather had tried to control my grandmother’s vote he would have gotten her big farm boot right up his kazoo!
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It makes me sick to think of anyone forced to vote a certain way by someone else. My great-aunt and uncle were rep and dem respectively and he never tried to tell her how to vote. She’d probably have kicked his ass if he tried it.
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Yeah, apparently vote by mail makes it easier for a controlling partner to monitor the other’s vote. That’s a big down side.
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Imagine what your nan would have done!
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I can’t remember if Nanny voted or not. Mom doesn’t because she thinks they’re all crooks anyway so why bother? But if anyone had tried to tell Nanny how to vote, oooh boy howdy that WOULD NOT have went over well. Oh that would’ve been ugly indeed.
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Voted in person this morning in PA! Looking like strong turnout. I waited 10 whole minutes whereas it’s usually just in and out.
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It’s a little more complicated than that, at least for presidential primaries.
If you choose to vote in a primary, you must declare an affiliation with the party of the candidate you are voting for on the envelope your ballot is secured in/submitted with. But that party affiliation drops off automatically after 60 days.
This system is a fairly new introduction IIRC because we didn’t used to have a presidential primary for the democrats in Washington. In 2016 we were still using a caucus to choose candidates/elect delegates for the democratic national convention. I participated and ended up caucusing for HIllary, though I was almost convinced by the Bernie folks to vote for him.
Looks like we still have caucuses to choose delegates – you can only caucus for the party that you declared affiliation with in the primary, if you voted. These rules are an attempt to keep people from messing with the other side’s results:
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/helpful-information/presidential-primary-faq
I dropped my ballot off at the drop box near the community garden yesterday, and just got the text confirming receipt a couple of hours ago. My county has a pretty neat tracking page where you can see where your ballot is in the process – mine is awaiting signature verification (step 3) and counting (step 4). If your signature does not match they one they have on file for some reason you have until the day before the election is certified to cure it.
Crossing fingers for a blue wave and the continuation of democracy…
PS: Love how transparent our Sec of State is with results – here is the landing page.
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/data-research/election-data-and-maps/ballot-return-statistics
Over 56% of ballots returned as of yesterday – significantly lower than in 2020, but I think a lot of people returned ballots much earlier in 2020 due to Covid.
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Are these the NOLA stickers? For real?
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Yes!
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Our stickers are SO. BORING!
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I voted in PA by mail - they got my ballot Oct 15th, and updated the status to RECORD - BALLOT RETURNED. Which is what it still says. PA is a bit silly in that they don’t start to count mail-in ballots until Election Day.
It rubs me the wrong way, because if something was wrong with my ballot, I probably wouldn’t be notified in time to go do a provisional vote in person. (My concern is that my inner secrecy envelope was somewhat sealed shut from humidity, so I had to tear it somewhat to open it. So I worry they’ll reject it for that reason.)
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