or at least start processing ahead of time. The few that dont are in the process of changing or considering changing it.

see

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214070522

in many states ( like my state of Virginia) ballots are trackable. You can also just drop them off in person at the registrar office or vote there in person well ahead of time.

That makes me feel much better about the counting (though I wish PA, MI, and WI could process beforehand). However, I'm still worried about the ballots making it in time.

The answers have helped.

I'm hoping to hear more about the votes making it on time.

We are going early in the morning hoping there won't be much of a crowd. I honestly do not trust the mail right now.

1. drop off completed ballot at approved secured depository before election day
2. drop off completed ballot at local precinct on election day
3. USPS your ballot well in advance of election day, as early as possible
4. vote in person
5. USPS your ballot on short notice

hawaii is so blue it doesnt matter which you choose. your state may vary

Absentee ballots must go to the secure drop-off for that county; precincts may not accept them.

Yeah, it's awkward and we're trying to change it, but...at least we have a month of early voting in person (which Hubby and I are choosing this year)

Trump is screwing ALL voters equally by screwing with vote by mail. GOP will lose votes too if they fuck with mail in ballots, so in the end, it would probably be a wash with regard to who's votes get ditched, which means Biden wins.

as they think. Lotsa Trump votes will get rejected and the GOP is worried about that.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/republican-reaction-trump-mail-in-voting/index.html

A lot of rural Repubs vote by mail ONLY. If Trump discourages it, they may not vote at all.

I don't want wish for anyone to be disenfranchised, but if some are, I do hope it's close to equal between Dem and GOP voters.

So Dems would probably be affected more. I just think in the end it won't be as effective as they think it will be and will hurt GOP voters ENOUGH that Biden will still win.

In some areas it could make the difference though to elect Dems to CONGRESS. Especially in rural areas, where the GOP votes by mail in (because there's no polls close by) and the Dems in the cities, suburbs etc. may actually go the polls or to where it's easier to drop off a ballot.

I can't imagine we'll have a republic left if Trump gets another term.

Most of them, however, know that this is Biden's election to lose, and that if he wins and appoints an aggressive Attorney General, the new Justice Department will get busy hunting down crooks who tried to throw ANY part of the election to the Republicans by way of election fraud. That means they risk serious prison terms if prosecuted (big if, but they can't discount the possibility, knowing we will be out for some serious blood this time).

Just as we know there is no guarantee that their efforts to win by fraud will fail, they have no guarantees their efforts will serve them up their victory, and it will be a Pyrrhic victory, at that. Four more years of Trump, and there won't be much of an America left.

Some 20 years ago, a far-out political fantasy novel appeared where Britain (I think it written in the UK) fell into complete political dysfunction, and invited the Soviet Union to come take over the administration of the country. Like I said, the premise was a little whacko. But these days, I have to wonder if there hasn't been a small group of people in Trump's and Putin's circles who remembered the book, and started thinking, hmmmm, how would I profit from THAT kind of scenario??

that's not "fraud," at least not directly. I'm hoping enough has changed since this was written.

[link:https://www.ktvu.com/news/usps-warns-46-states-dc-about-election-mail-delays-that-could-affect-whether-ballots-get-counted|

Be it to the voters, or be it to the voting office charged with counting them, it has already been documented beyond any doubt that this will be due to deliberate interference with the Postal Service's normal functions, and that right before a presidential election, and it was ordered by one of the parties involved with the election. I find that indeed to be fraud. Honesty would be an all-out effort to get all ballots cast, and all ballots counted--exactly the opposite of what the current administration is pushing for.

but in past years you had to have a reason. This year they have assumed COVID is a reason all by itself, so they are opening 4 voting areas (libraries) and I'll be voting there Oct. 19.

Stop in the west how many displaced people there will be who can't vote?

I remember how I felt when I realized I didn't get my address change in on time and couldn't vote for Gore, I was in Cali so he won there but still felt awful. My dad died few months before election and I moved to another town to live with my boyfriend who is now my husband but I forgot until too late to change it. I was also working fulltime then. And not on this site until 2004.

There could be delays in receiving the absentee ballots in the first place. That's what I am hoping not to see, reports that Democrats are expecting mail ballots but they are inexplicably late in arriving.

Fortunately I haven't seen anything like that so far from North Carolina.

The problem is on both ends, receiving the ballot and getting it back in time.

Is to cause enough people to fear vote by mail that we end up with long lines for in person voting which could depress turnout.

Don’t give in to the fear mongering.

Make a plan. Have a backup plan. And no matter what obstacles they put in your way, vote.

I'm hoping that since these polls were taken, more Dem voters have decided to do this instead of relying on the mail. This is still much safer than in-person voting, with far fewer people around.

I've never seen such a great GOTV. Make some calls It's made me feel better

Should go pretty fast ..we also count votes ahead of time