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

Enigma94 said:
I lived there for a couple of years by the lake. That Carol Mitchem guy was a piece of work.
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Yes, we were on the Lake for over a decade but sold our place to a (little known, though my son instantly recognized him when he came to look at the house) NASCAR driver’s mom and moved to a 55+ community nearby to simplify our lives a bit.
 
nycfan said:
Yes, we were on the Lake for over a decade but sold our place to a (little known, though my son instantly recognized him when he came to look at the house) NASCAR driver’s mom and moved to a 55+ community nearby to simplify our lives a bit.
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I'm sorry. You're a partner at Big Law and living in a 55+ community? I've never heard of that before. That said, I don't know NC lawyers.
 
superrific said:
I'm sorry. You're a partner at Big Law and living in a 55+ community? I've never heard of that before. That said, I don't know NC lawyers.
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Why are you sorry about that? I have a very nice home that is the right size for our empty nest status, easy access to the airport and my office, just all very convenient. My husband is retired, we'd sort of aged out/had our fill of boating and jet skis, so it gives him a lot more to do than living in between vacation homes on the Lake. We usually spend falls up at our cabin, though of course that is not very practical this year due to Helene.
 
nycfan said:
Why are you sorry about that? I have a very nice home that is the right size for our empty nest status, easy access to the airport and my office, just all very convenient. My husband is retired, we'd sort of aged out/had our fill of boating and jet skis, so it gives him a lot more to do than living in between vacation homes on the Lake. We usually spend falls up at our cabin, though of course that is not very practical this year due to Helene.
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I didn't mean anything by it. It was more of a "wait, what?" comment (and not "wait, wut" which I take to have a different meaning). No judgment implied at all. I just didn't know that was a thing. And maybe it's not a thing for anyone but you, but that's OK -- it's now a thing that at least one person I sorta know does.
 
uncmba said:
Just voted, 30 minute wait that became an hour one after we walked out.
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No offense, but doesn't this sorta miss the point of early voting? I thought the point was to prevent people from having to wait in line. Maybe that was originally the point, and then they started to close polling locations in reliance on early voting?
 
Waiting in line to vote. Wasn’t planning on doing it today but I clicked on this thread just a bit ago and decided to go ahead and get it over with.
 
Paine said:
That’s one part of it. I think the campaigns also make decisions based on who has early voted. Then they can better target other voters in the waning days of the campaign.
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In certain states. NC "releases" the voter list daily. I suspect not all states do this.

Of course a better reason for early voting would be a non-week day or flexible days-o-week.
 
superrific said:
No offense, but doesn't this sorta miss the point of early voting? I thought the point was to prevent people from having to wait in line. Maybe that was originally the point, and then they started to close polling locations in reliance on early voting?
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I agree. I would do early voting if it saved me time. But I can vote quicker on Election Day in Cary. And it’s also more fun voting on Election Day. So my only risk in waiting is if I was to have some emergency come up or something that prevented me from voting on the day of.
 
superrific said:
No offense, but doesn't this sorta miss the point of early voting? I thought the point was to prevent people from having to wait in line. Maybe that was originally the point, and then they started to close polling locations in reliance on early voting?
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I think the point is access. Many people have to work on Election Tuesday.

I saw a lot of retirees and young people today.
 
superrific said:
No offense, but doesn't this sorta miss the point of early voting? I thought the point was to prevent people from having to wait in line. Maybe that was originally the point, and then they started to close polling locations in reliance on early voting?
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Polling locations for Election Day voting haven't been closed, you have to have a polling location for every precinct on Election Day. Where polling locations have been closed in some places are for early voting. There have also been examples of heavy-Dem precincts having their Election Day polling locations placed in hard-to-reach or otherwise difficult locations.

The point of early voting is to give people options to vote other than one single day and to alleviate some of the amount of folks trying to vote in one day to reduce wait times.
 
superrific said:
No offense, but doesn't this sorta miss the point of early voting? I thought the point was to prevent people from having to wait in line. Maybe that was originally the point, and then they started to close polling locations in reliance on early voting?
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The point was to give flexibility. And it does decrease wait times
 
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