With all of the back and forth in the news we thought that today was the last day of early voting but for those in Ohio, voting is open Saturday and sunday too. : )

No early voting here in KY and for absentee ballots you have to be ready to prove you will actually be absent for an excusable reason.

We have early voting in this state and I've taken full advantage of it. Polling places are kind of a movable feast but it was 3 blocks away this time, no excuse in the world not to go.

here in NC.

I'll be at the library in Monroe for early voting.

I skipped voting mail-in in CA because I like being there and and seeing my fellow citizens--Democrats, Republicans and others--turning out to exercise their franchise.

I'll be doing on-site prep for a week-long Veterans Day event and then speaking at a school assembly, but my ride to the school visit volunteered to take me to my polling place afterward.

Not to worry.......I WILL be there.

No early voting. I will be voting as early as possible Tuesday and then make popcorn for real and watch the returns on TV or here on the many many threads that will be going.

I voted 3 weeks ago.

The State Legislature just passed a no excuses absentee law last session that allows anyone to vote absentee in Minnesota without giving a reason. I am in Minnesota and I voted early this year and plan on voting early every year from this point forward, it is really convenient to be able to vote from home as I am able to research all the local candidates as I fill out the ballot and I can take as much time as I want because I have no one standing behind me in line. It helps the campaign organizers as well as it is public record who sent in their ballot and the campaigns won't waste resources trying to get people to the polls who have already voted.

It is too late to get an absentee ballot by mail now, although I believe you can still pick one up from the county courthouse if I am not mistaken. At this point however it is probably just as easy for you to vote on Tuesday, just keep the early voting option in mind for the next election.

Senator Wellstone's campaign taught me to always vote in election day unless I was going to be out of town tgat day. (Jon Grunseth is another reason to vote on election day, not that I voted for him.)

I can walk to my polling place. The county courthouse is more than a couple miles away. I didn't know that about the change, so next year I can be a cool kid too! Now I have to go thank Thor also.

For the first time I have a valid reason to vote absentee (going to be an election judge) and I don't need it because anyone can vote absentee for any reason this year in MN.

I think the conservatives really dislike early voting because it reduces the value of last minute dirty tricks.

I think you are right. With early voting they are going to have to plan to do their October suprises in September.

Vote early - vote often!

I'll be going to the polls in a wheelchair on Tuesday because of recent surgeries, but I don't care if someone had to wheel me in there on a hospital bed. Corbett's got to go!

In California...


Tikki

In all honesty, I have seen few if any here on DU say they won't. I see a lot making the claim that a significant number of people here are vowing to sit it out. Frankly, I would suspect that most who are invested enough in politics to spend time on a political discussion board will likely be invested enough to vote. Not to say voter apathy and disillusionment isn't a problem, I just suspect most people who really feel that way don't hang out on DU.

We can follow it online

different district, so they automatically send me an absentee ballot.

Was not asked for ID or any info other than name, address and date of birth. Voted for every Democrat on the ballot, but since I live in "Red" district, many offices had no Democratic challenger.

A friend of mine (in 2012 election) noticed a bunch of Republican signs on the lawn outside of his polling place. He complained to the polling officials (a group of elderly volunteers, bless their hearts) who didn't think it was a problem. So, he called the police. The police said the signs were legal because they were outside of a one hundred foot distance. So my buddy went to his truck, got a tape measure (he is a carpenter), and showed the cops that the signs were indeed within the one hundred foot distance. The cops kind of shrugged, but my friend made a fuss and they ended up removing the signs. He went back later that day to make sure they had not been replaced. They were not.

He said he felt a little embarrassed making a "scene", but he recognized the value of name recognition in voters minds and figured some people may look at the ballot and think "Yeah, I've heard of that name" since they had just seen it on the signs coming into the polling place.

Meeting and greeting voters for that last final 'push' to try and get enough votes. One succeeded, one didn't, but hopefully picked up at least a few more votes that way.

If the polling place is public property (School, library, govt building) the 100 foot line starts at the edge of the property, not the door. If the polling place is private property, such as a church, the line starts at the door.

So, in Minnesota, at a school based polling place, political bumpers stickers are not allowed in the parking lots, but as a practical measure, nothing is really done, unless the car is left there all day.

And I have ballot on my desk to fill out tomorrow and drop off at library.

I wanted to look up two local people I know nothing about for some local office...I am sure both are republican...I live in conservative town, want to see which is least worse!

Voting as usual for dem congressman though doubt he will win...our guy uses his catching green river killer forever as if no other issue matters...I am glad he doggedly didnt give up on case but he is far right winger....

and according to the county registrar's web site it's been received and counted. The only elections that seem to be contested are the local ones: in the governor's race Brown is polling about 20 points ahead of Whats-His-Name, and my congressperson is a shoo-in.

Wanted to be sure it got there in time.

don't trust those fucks

I will definitely vote because I'll be there often enough!

Maybe we can do a Dr. Spock type poem about it and publish it!

As I have posted before, I flat out love voting, even when I have to stand on line. Maybe even more when I have to stand on line because that hints at good turnout. I get worried when I see cobwebs surrounding the poll workers.

since I've heard various things that lead me to believe some votes don't actually get counted in Ohio 'if the election is a lock'. A few cycles back, when they first introduced a different electronic machine, I asked for a paper ballot because I didn't trust those, only to find out afterwards that the paper ballot I cast my vote on was a 'provisional' ballot, and thus my presidential vote was pointless, they 'decided' the state before ever getting around to counting my vote (if they ever did).

My housemate filled out an absentee ballot and already mailed it, and I'm wondering if and when those get counted. Maybe I SHOULD be casting that way, if I can be sure they'll be counted in advance, since doing it that way gave her time to see all of the candidates in advance and look them up online, as opposed to me going in and sometimes coming up against a race (usually judges) where, for the life of me, I can't remember anything about either candidate, and don't even know who is calling themselves a Dem or Repub, since they don't list that on the ballot in Ohio for judges, school board, etc.

Even though there have been many times that I had to hold my nose.

it's a given that we are voting for the D candidates.

I avoid early voting because if not enough people vote at my precinct it may close and that would disenfranchise a lot of my elderly neighbors. If I thought like RWNJs I would encourage voters in my area to early vote so as to get rid of those RW older voters but since I am a loyal American, I believe everyone should have the opportunity and means to vote.

nt

I arrived at the County Clerk's office at 4:57 p.m. on Friday (totally my own fault). The overpaid civil servants with bloated pensions deferred the start of their weekend to issue me my ballot and then accept it for counting.

My sarcasm has been known to go over jurors' heads, so let me spell out that my phrasing is a sarcastic reference to the charges that Christie has hurled at public employees here in New Jersey. Let me further spell out that I disagree with him and that I was pleased to be able to vote against him last year.

I'll vote Tuesday. I have never waited more than 30 minutes to vote in 20 years or so of voting.

to avoid long lines we voted at the county court house two weeks ago.

I will be running my county's voter protection boilerroom and got my vote out of the way

Florida Democrat here

Tuesday will be an interesting evening, me thinks.

My vote might not matter as much as I want it to, but incrementally it has mattered as part of the collective force for the 90%.

I will always vote. I tried to register the first day it was legal for 18 year olds to do so. The college town registrar wasn't having any of that, but I tried.

The only thing that is changed is that back then I couldn't imagine ever voting straight ticket. Now I can't imagine not doing so (unless there are no Democrats running).

I went through that "not voting angst" some years back. So through with that.

...all voted this past Monday. We live in a red county in one of the blue, far northwest suburban areas of the greater Chicago area.

The tide may be turning a bit. Earlier in the week, the county board, which is heavily Republican, voted 21-3 to accept some sort of Obamacare funding that had previously been turned down. According to the e-mail from the Dem county chair, about 150 citizens showed up to make the case FOR accepting the funds. He was shocked and pleased.

With my wife and son.

will vote election day the same way I have the past 50 years. (Dang I had not realized it had been this long). I just love the ritual but I know deep down that I really need to do early voting, just in case. I probably will as age takes its toll.

my family always goes over the ballot and fills it out together, so we'll to that tonight or tomorrow and drop the ballots off monday.

We don't have early voting in MO

I don't recall precisely, but I believe our early voting may still require the use of an absentee ballot, which is more easily challenged, and may still require my swearing that I'm unable to vote on Tuesday. That's not true.

From what I've heard I'll start the day initialing ballots. The precinct and ward I'm working is split between two school districts, so there will be two different ballots due to a school issue on the ballot.

I had to get my vote in for Michelle Nunn for Senate and Jason Carter for Governor.

Yep going to vote for Wendy Davis. Now who here is NOT voting and why?

to voting on Tuesday mainly because of some important (to me, anyway) ballot questions.

So much so that I'm actually having nightmares about forgetting that Tues is voting day. Or that for some reason I sleep through it.

Considering staying up from now till then, but Mr Pipi thinks I'm being silly.

OK back to obsessing about changing all my clocks and watches back an hour...

Even though we have once again found candidate weaker than Congress Vagrant Dana Rohrabacher, who even the staunchly conservative Orange County Register acknowledged is a whackjob in their tepid endorsement. The latest out of the clown car of spaced out millionaires is Sue Savary who has raised no money and is invisible.

Rohrabacher is a joke even amongst Republicans, he has been left for dead over and over again... and we just can't get it together here.

and the environmental initiative.

I always vote, no matter what.

My kids and I went when my son was home from college.

I live in Oregon where it is very easy to vote by mail.

I'll be curious to see whether or not there is a long line at the table for the nearby precincts that have predominantly African-American voters, just like I saw two and six years earlier, but didn't see four years ago.

we get 2/12 days of early in person voting at the county courthouse. I FEEL GOOD.....

last week. On paper, by mail.

It's not a lot of effort.

I'm fortunate. We live in Virginia's 8th District. Looks like we will have a new (D) Representative, and Senator Warner will be re-elected.

Come hell or high water, I would never miss a chance to vote! I love voting!

I've tried to get my mother to do early voting, but she's still enamored of the whole first Tuesday in November thing (and also I think because it almost always falls on one of my two sisters' birthday -- as it does this year).

She only registered to vote in 2004, so it's still fairly new to her. Me, I haven't missed an election since Mondale, so it's sort of a habit now.

3rd day of early voting.. walked to the courthouse.. and filled out each and every one of those little ovals individually..

I've not missed an election in 40 yrs no sense starting now.

in WA. all bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Taking the trash out of the state capital is going be a real pleasure.