Roll Call: Who is voting early? Who is waiting til Nov. 5 (and why?)
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superrific
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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.
aGDevil2k
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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
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.
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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ChapelHillSooner
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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
CFordUNC
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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.
ChapelHillSooner
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At my early voting side they had carside voting for those who needed it.
superrific
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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.
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.
As I said, I expected that. It's mostly about when my wife feels like going.
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I don't like to vote on election day for three reasons.
1. If something goes wrong, you just have to sit and wait until it is fixed.
2. In NC, I can vote, in person, at any early voting site site in the county. So on the day my wife and I voted we decided to have an early supper at place near South Park. We drove past three voting sites that had lines out the door, until we're got to the Rexford Road site that had no lines. We were in/our in under 10 minutes and off to supper.
3. I'm an election monitor volunteer and the Dems usually want me working all day on election day.
1. If something goes wrong, you just have to sit and wait until it is fixed.
2. In NC, I can vote, in person, at any early voting site site in the county. So on the day my wife and I voted we decided to have an early supper at place near South Park. We drove past three voting sites that had lines out the door, until we're got to the Rexford Road site that had no lines. We were in/our in under 10 minutes and off to supper.
3. I'm an election monitor volunteer and the Dems usually want me working all day on election day.
I agree.
I look forward to the day that I can choose between a reasonable Republican and a reasonable Democrat. That’s impossible in North Carolina (or the former Confederacy) today.
I first voted in 1980.
Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 Presidential Campaign at the Neshoba County Fair near Philadelphia, Mississippi. He spoke about and in favor of “states’ rights.”
Neshoba County and Philadelphia, Mississippi is where James Chaney (a young black man and supporter of civil and voting rights), Andrew Goodman (a Jewish supporter of civil and voting rights), and Michael Schwerner (a Jewish supporter of civil and voting rights) were murdered by local law enforcement with support from the Klan.
“States’ Rights” was a dog whistle.
As the highly skilled Republican political consultant, Lee Atwater (he successfully managed Presidential campaigns and he was great at it), said on his death bed…….”We could no longer say, “N-word, N-word, N-word.” Instead, we said, “States’ rights, “Busing,” “Welfare queens” (a two-fer - racism AND misogyny)…..then, we jumped on abortion and killing babies.”
Jesse Helms or candidates Jesse supported were too often on the ballot. Jesse’s political organization, the Congressional Club, saved Reagan’s political career in 1976 with a brutally savage campaign against that notoriously left-wing Gerald Ford.
I realize that you likely regard Ronald Reagan as a true Conservative…….a good conservative……
Ronald Reagan often referred to an “11th Commandment” - “Say no ill of a fellow Republican.
Reagan was “all-in” supporting Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.
Reagan would be “all-in” supporting Trump.
I vote on election day, I go before I eat breakfast . . . my polling place is 5 houses away so I walk there, I haven't voted for a Republican since 1984 and after what transpired on 1-6-2021 I promise that however many few votes that I may have in my lifetime I will never ever vote for any republican again.
Yo DJT . . GFY
Yo DJT . . GFY
donbosco
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While canvassing for Harris/Walz we visited an 84 year old black woman (best conversation we had with anyone while canvassing) who said that she was voting on Election Day. We asked her why not go earlier, and she replied that she and her sister always go in a large group from her church on Election Day.
It sounded like a “souls to the polls” event for this group. So tradition and an enjoyable wait with people you like could be a good reason for more than just this group to vote on Election Day. It sounded good to my wife and I; a large group with a high likelihood of straight D ballots.
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This. (I did vote for Mike Munger-Libertarian-for Gov of NC in 2012-because I knew him-and I knew the last mnute Dem was going to get Blown out )