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

lawtig02 said:
I have a soft spot in my CONTIFA heart for Steve Troxler, but otherwise am right there with you.
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As the Alabama-based co-founding member of CONTIFA, I’m giving ‘em a big ol’ straight D on Tuesday, in-person.

Never gone straight ticket in my life, and hope to never have to do so again, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to reward one single Republican with a vote this cycle. None of them deserve it, because the ones that do aren’t on the ballot.
 
CFordUNC said:
As the Alabama-based co-founding member of CONTIFA, I’m giving ‘em a big ol’ straight D on Tuesday, in-person.

Never gone straight ticket in my life, and hope to never have to do so again, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to reward one single Republican with a vote this cycle. None of them deserve it, because the ones that do aren’t on the ballot.
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Hate to bear bad news, but you're going to have to keep doing it. Especially if you move back to NC. It's going to take a long time to flush this from MAGA. It isn't going to happen in a decade.

What we are seeing now is arguably the ugliest, most racist, most hate-filled presidential campaign since the Civil War. It is being waged in the name of authoritarianism, from a combination of a) the cruelty is the point people; b) people deluded by right-wing media and c) people have been wanting to put a boot heel on uppity minorities and women for long time and have been storing up the hate.

That isn't going away. There are no GOP leaders who will be able to stand up and lead the party back if Trump loses. They might even have to fold the party and start a new one. They have burned all their bridges.
 
aGDevil2k said:
Here's my question:

If you live in a state with early voting, WHY WOULD YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY?

I dont understand the motivation. Tradition? You are a Tuesday kind of person?
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1. Don't trust USPS, which was especially an issue in 2020
2. Don't want to get ballots destroyed while sitting in drop boxes

I mean, neither of these objections holds for in-person early voting, but you know.
 
superrific said:
1. Don't trust USPS, which was especially an issue in 2020
2. Don't want to get ballots destroyed while sitting in drop boxes

I mean, neither of these objections holds for in-person early voting, but you know.
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Yeah it's in person early voting that is what I do. I dont know why you would wait to go at a less convenient day
 
aGDevil2k said:
Here's my question:

If you live in a state with early voting, WHY WOULD YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY?

I dont understand the motivation. Tradition? You are a Tuesday kind of person?
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I'm not sure when I'll vote. I live in Carrboro. Election day may be the least crowded day to vote. It's also the day that I can vote 2 minutes from my house and that they have curbside voting for my wife. I'm guessing most early voting places have that. I told my wife that she's the one who has the trouble getting around and we'll go when and where she wanted to go. I don't understand why it matters as long as you do.
 
CFordUNC said:
As the Alabama-based co-founding member of CONTIFA, I’m giving ‘em a big ol’ straight D on Tuesday, in-person.

Never gone straight ticket in my life, and hope to never have to do so again, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to reward one single Republican with a vote this cycle. None of them deserve it, because the ones that do aren’t on the ballot.
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Here is why you vote straight party - the whole “I vote for the candidate and not the party” is BS.

Why?

The elected officials vote party and not policy.

When a Phil Berger or Mitch McConnell or Tim Moore or Nancy Pelosi comes calling, the officeholder votes party…….

Susan Collins, that renowned moderate from Maine, voted Kavanaugh because McConnell told her to do so. The GOP needed her vote. When the GOP doesn’t need her vote, she can pretend to be a moderate.

Of course, if someone like Trump or Mark Robinson is running, you don’t vote for that person.

Let me know when the Democrats nominate a Trump or Robinson or Gaetz or Boebert.
 
Zoo_View said:
Here is why you vote straight party - the whole “I vote for the candidate and not the party” is BS.

Why?

The elected officials vote party and not policy.

When a Phil Berger or Mitch McConnell or Tim Moore or Nancy Pelosi comes calling, the officeholder votes party…….

Susan Collins, that renowned moderate from Maine, voted Kavanaugh because McConnell told her to do so. The GOP needed her vote. When the GOP doesn’t need her vote, she can pretend to be a moderate.

Of course, if someone like Trump or Mark Robinson is running, you don’t vote for that person.

Let me know when the Democrats nominate a Trump or Robinson or Gaetz or Boebert.
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Thanks Zoo
 
aGDevil2k said:
Here's my question:

If you live in a state with early voting, WHY WOULD YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY?

I dont understand the motivation. Tradition? You are a Tuesday kind of person?
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Good reasons:

1. Work conflicts but they allow time off to vote on Election Day.

2. Can’t get to one of the early voting sites.

Not as good:

1. Procrastination
 
Zoo_View said:
Here is why you vote straight party - the whole “I vote for the candidate and not the party” is BS.

Why?

The elected officials vote party and not policy.

When a Phil Berger or Mitch McConnell or Tim Moore or Nancy Pelosi comes calling, the officeholder votes party…….

Susan Collins, that renowned moderate from Maine, voted Kavanaugh because McConnell told her to do so. The GOP needed her vote. When the GOP doesn’t need her vote, she can pretend to be a moderate.

Of course, if someone like Trump or Mark Robinson is running, you don’t vote for that person.

Let me know when the Democrats nominate a Trump or Robinson or Gaetz or Boebert.
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Oh yeah, I hear you. To be clear, I am absolutely, positively, unequivocally in no way shape or form going to consider voting for a single solitary Republican politician moving forward who was ever part of this MAGA fuckery, either directly or through their cowardice. That includes low rent losers like Nikki Haley. I’ll halfway consider a vote for a Republican again whenever the Republican Party can demonstrate that it is not… anything remotely resembling what it currently is. And I certainly will not hold my breath to get to that point.
 
finesse said:
I'm not sure when I'll vote. I live in Carrboro. Election day may be the least crowded day to vote. It's also the day that I can vote 2 minutes from my house and that they have curbside voting for my wife. I'm guessing most early voting places have that. I told my wife that she's the one who has the trouble getting around and we'll go when and where she wanted to go. I don't understand why it matters as long as you do.
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At my early voting side they had carside voting for those who needed it.
 
Zoo_View said:
Here is why you vote straight party - the whole “I vote for the candidate and not the party” is BS.
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I have never in my life voted GOP at any level of government. I've never cared about local races enough to look into the candidates, but I've lived in pretty liberal places with competent local government.

I have never regretted voting straight blue no matter who. Everyone who knows me knows I am a fiercely independent thinker. You don't give away your independence just because you realize that one side in this country is much worse than the other side. In fact, that's an educated judgment.

The people who aren't independent are the ones who make it a point to split their ticket. So they are having choices made for them.
 
aGDevil2k said:
Here's my question:

If you live in a state with early voting, WHY WOULD YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY?

I dont understand the motivation. Tradition? You are a Tuesday kind of person?
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I’ve been a “vote on Election Day for decades”…….I like the vibe. It’s the day with the most campaign volunteers at the polls.

Bear in mind, North Carolina had an early vote-in-person “walk-in absentee” option the full week before Election Day going back to at least 1986. That’s how I voted in those days when I worked on campaigns and knew I’d be running ragged on Election Day.

Until today, I’ve voted on Election Day. Today, I was checking on how to help my octogenarian parents vote on Friday……no line…….so, I voted.

In a “normal” election, I’ll return to voting on Election Day.
 
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