Comment on This guy already voted, did you ?

Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m in an area that isn’t under threat of having my vote invalidated

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  • muffedtrims@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This. My area has long lines for early voting as there are only 4 polling locations for early voting. If I wait day of, after the before work morning rush, I’m in and out in less than 5 minutes.

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    • Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That’s interesting. It’s the opposite here. There’s no line for early voting, but there’s a small one for voting day. Early voting is just slightly more convenient.

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    • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I vote by mail now in IL because we are not savages, but when I voted in person I always got up, threw some slob clothes on and went at like 6A or whatever when the place opened. In and out. Then I went home and got ready for work.

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• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  More convenient. The polling place is on the way to work, a few blocks from my house. The early voting locations are much further away. I have a friend who volunteers at a polling place every election, and he’s explained the procedure to me: Even if I voted in-person absentee (i.e. early), they keep my ballot sealed until election day, then it has to be transported to my polling place, and an election volunteer has to physically walk it through the same process of consulting the voter book, and placing it in the scanner.

  It’s not quite the same, of course. I was behind one of these volunteers this morning, and he located a long list of voters in the book, rather than doing it one at a time. But, at the bottom line, my ballot has to be physically cast at my polling place on election day by somebody. So why not go do it myself?

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But what if there’s a last minute announcement and it turns out the democrats are all aliens?

  Spoiler: I’d probably still vote Democrat in the unfortunate event that I’m an American and in that situation.

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  • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I would vote for sentient poops in human suits before the fucking Nazi Fascist of MAGA/the GOP.

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  • lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alien democrats are far better than humanoid Republicans.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that Mitch McConnell is human, but the battery in the control device that they implanted in his brain was failing. (And now has failed.) That’s why they switched to putting one of their own in an ill-fitting human suit, and calling him “Ted” Cruz. Pretty sure they’re reptilians, which is why that volunteer has to engage in behavioral thermoregulation.

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    • thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      than most presumed-human dems honestly. and the ogres.

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• Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Personally I think the sooner everything collapses the better for the most people and continuing this charade of “voting out fascism” is pointless. That being said, I’m one dumb person and many others, smarter than me, say it’s worth it, so I do it, but voting for capitalists requires holding my nose. I live in Oregon and Tina Kotek is a great example of someone I don’t want to vote for but probably will vote for to further Democratic party interests. I sat down to do it yesterday and legit started weeping for the death of the American experiment. So I left it to today. My county clerk is in walking distance and I’ll deliver it to her this morning. That’s the beauty of voting only by mail, it’s not rushed chaos.

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• Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, for me I’ve been out of town then sick since early voting started. Finally can get out today. Normally though I prefer to skip the lines and vote early. My state also does not allow mail in without reason (which is fucking nonsense but alas).

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• UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because the hours for my early voting location are the same hours that I work.

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• Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, for me I’ve been out of town then sick since early voting started. Finally can get out today. Normally though I prefer to skip the lines and vote early. My state also does not allow mail in without reason (which is fucking nonsense but alas).

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sometimes my schedule just doesn’t align, or the early voting locations are a 3 minute bike ride away instead of right at the end of my street

  disclaimer: not american

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• areakode@riskeratspizza.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because Missouri hates me. Mail-in ballots are only for excused reasons. I would have voted early, but there wasn’t a location that would be convenient for me. This morning, I was in and out in 5 minutes.

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