Roll Call: Who is voting early? Who is waiting til Nov. 5 (and why?)

Icky Mettle said:
Never done that. It’s always been a touchscreen.

I vote in Charlotte, and it’s been that way there since the first time I voted back in 1996.
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Same here, Charlotte and has always been a touchscreen for me. Only time I’ve filled in bubbles has been absentee ballots.
 
Filled in bubbles everywhere I've ever voted. That's Chapel Hill/Carrboro, Chatham and Nash counties. Pretty sure that they can be read and not hand counted anymore ,though. My wife used to help with that back in the 70s .
 
wmheel1287 said:
Wake still uses paper with hand bubbles but you do feed it into a machine (basically a scantron) that tabulates it immediately.
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This is the one I’m familiar with from voting in Wake and Wilson.

I remember when I was younger they had the touch screen voting machines. Maybe 2008? My mom took me into the booth with her when she would go vote.

I have to admit, I do like the scantron system. It’s kind of the best of both worlds between paper and electronic.
 
CLT Heel said:
I’m heading out now to vote in Cabarrus County. We’ll see how the line is! Starship Troopers GIF
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I’ll be interested to see how things end up looking in Cabarrus County this time around. It is still solidly red, but the gap is narrowing there. It’s the least red of all the counties that border Mecklenburg.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I’ll be interested to see how things end up looking in Cabarrus County this time around. It is still solidly red, but the gap is narrowing there. It’s the least red of all the counties that border Mecklenburg.
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Correct. In 2020 Trump carried Union, Gaston, Iredell, and Lincoln by 20 or 30%. He carried Cabarrus by 6%, and the precincts from the city of Concord west to the Mecklenburg county line were all blue. The northern and eastern precincts (parts of Kannapolis and Mt. Pleasant) are the reddest parts of the county.
 
Just voted in Charlotte at the South Park regional library. Took 25 minutes from getting to the line to walking out the door. Kind of a hidden gem. Line looks the same amount of people when I got here. Moving pretty quickly.
 
So FYI for anyone in cabarets county who is thinking of going to the events center to vote. We turned into the lane to go in, and saw cars turning around in front of us. Then we saw a sign that said $8 for parking. I was like, WTF???? I drove up prepared to pay, but give them a piece of my mind that they were charging for parking. The person then asked me which event I was there for, and when I said voting, they said that was no charge.

Just letting you know not to turn away, because they will NOT charge you to park to vote.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Wake still uses paper with hand bubbles but you do feed it into a machine (basically a scantron) that tabulates it immediately.
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that's how it is in VA too.

Years ago when I lived in MI they used to use a hole punch method on the margin in a "book" that looked like a college essay bluebook type deal. There was a small thumbtack thing in the booth and you'd just push it through the book margin.

They also used to have it where you could down ballot hole punch for all dems or all pubs without even opening the book.
 
CLT Heel said:
So FYI for anyone in cabarets county who is thinking of going to the events center to vote. We turned into the lane to go in, and saw cars turning around in front of us. Then we saw a sign that said $8 for parking. I was like, WTF???? I drove up prepared to pay, but give them a piece of my mind that they were charging for parking. The person then asked me which event I was there for, and when I said voting, they said that was no charge.

Just letting you know not to turn away, because they will NOT charge you to park to vote.
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I was surprised Cabarrus county only had 4 early voting locations. They have three in Concord, one in Kannapolis, and nothing in the Harrisburg, Midland or Mt Pleasant areas. They basically have one early voting location for every 60,000 residents. By contrast, Mecklenburg has 33 early voting locations or one for every 35,000 residents. That is a bigger discrepancy than I would have expected.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
Just voted in Charlotte at the South Park regional library. Took 25 minutes from getting to the line to walking out the door. Kind of a hidden gem. Line looks the same amount of people when I got here. Moving pretty quickly.
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That’s where my wife and I attempted to stop on the first day of early voting, but the line was super long that morning.
 
CLT Heel said:
So FYI for anyone in cabarets county who is thinking of going to the events center to vote. We turned into the lane to go in, and saw cars turning around in front of us. Then we saw a sign that said $8 for parking. I was like, WTF???? I drove up prepared to pay, but give them a piece of my mind that they were charging for parking. The person then asked me which event I was there for, and when I said voting, they said that was no charge.

Just letting you know not to turn away, because they will NOT charge you to park to vote.
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Ooh. Cabarets County. Sounds fun.
 
Icky Mettle said:
That’s where my wife and I attempted to stop on the first day of early voting, but the line was super long that morning.
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There’s another location two blocks away behind the Barnes and Noble. The lines there have been much shorter.
 
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