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

CFordUNC said:
Got home last night from being out of town for work this week to find that my absentee ballot finally arrived. Just gave 'em the big ol' Straight D and going to hand-deliver it to the election commission in downtown Birmingham at lunch today.
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JCTarheel82 said:
Found out tonight that my parents both voted for Trump... again. They're white Evangelical Boomers who have been voting Pub for decades but it never stops being disappointing.
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I feel you there. My dad and stepmother - a retired electrical engineer and an attorney respectively - both did as well. They're both evangelicals and have a steady diet of Fox News 3x/day for the last 29 years. So very disheartening.
 
Yes it does matter when you vote. And generally it is better to vote early.

Bonier from TargetSmart and Simon Rosenberg covered this in one of the videos I posted in one of these threads.

All things being equal and not considering late-breaking news that would change your votes… voting as early as possible allows you to be removed from the rolls that the campaigns are accessing to target voters via ground game/phone/texts/messaging etc. It enables campaigns to focus remaining budget and efforts on those who haven’t yet voted.

It’s probably only a tiny efficiency in the grand scheme of things on the presidential level, but it affects campaigns at all levels where budgets are much smaller. So it was enough to get me to vote early (in-person, almost no line) this year for the first time.

But I also understand those who prefer the tradition of Election Day. It’s like celebrating Thanksgiving the weekend before or after, and not on that Thursday. It may be practical for whatever reason, but it’s just not quite the same.
 
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So I evacuated WNC for NYC because of Helene on Oct. 1. At first I wasn't sure whether I would return to AVL so I waited until Oct. 20 to request my absentee ballot. It did not arrive in NYC until yesterday, Nov. 2 late in the day (mail comes to our building around 4 pm).

Not being able to mail it on Sunday, Nov. 3, instead I hit the road at 5 am this morning, arriving back in Buncombe 12 hours later. I have my absentee ballot with me. The protocol that I must follow now is to turn it in on Election Day by 7:30 at the Board of Elections office (I cannot take it to my designated polling place nor can I do anything with it tomorrow/Monday).

Fifteen years ago when my Deddy was in hospice and in his last days he said to me, "You cannot ever miss voting. You have to cancel your brother."

My intention is to always honor his wishes.
 
A friend has suggested that a vote like mine will surely be contested should Harris win.
 
donbosco said:
So I evacuated WNC for NYC because of Helene on Oct. 1. At first I wasn't sure whether I would return to AVL so I waited until Oct. 20 to request my absentee ballot. It did not arrive in NYC until yesterday, Nov. 2 late in the day (mail comes to our building around 4 pm).

Not being able to mail it on Sunday, Nov. 3, instead I hit the road at 5 am this morning, arriving back in Buncombe 12 hours later. I have my absentee ballot with me. The protocol that I must follow now is to turn it in on Election Day by 7:30 at the Board of Elections office (I cannot take it to my designated polling place nor can I do anything with it tomorrow/Monday).

Fifteen years ago when my Deddy was in hospice and in his last days he said to me, "You cannot ever miss voting. You have to cancel your brother."

My intention is to always honor his wishes.
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Last house we canvassed yesterday we knocked, thought we heard some movement inside so knocked again. A guy yelled through a curtained window, “I’ve already voted!”. So I replied, “Thanks”, and we started to walk away. Suddenly the garage door started to open and I heard a “Wait!” The guy must have noticed our Harris/Walz shirts after first thinking we must be Trump canvassers.

The guy said he actually had not voted yet, had not changed his registration from his home in Pennsylvania yet, and was flying back to PA this morning to vote straight D. We shook his hand and gave him our thanks. The organizer loved it when we passed on this story.
 
For those voting tomorrow, what's your plan? The husband and I will probably go around 9 a.m. Guilford County Schools are closed today and tomorrow, so I want to drag our 14-year-old out so he can witness democracy in action and all of that. But he'll probably still be asleep. :ROFLMAO:

I'm working, so we'll probably swing by Starbuck's and then come back home to log on and try to focus. I did take Wednesday off for...whatever is happening.
 
LOL

Text that I just received: "Message from NC Board of Elections: If you have not yet returned your absentee ballot or voted in person, do not mail your ballot at this point. Because it must arrive by 7:30PM on Tuesday, November 5, you must deliver it by hand to your county board of elections office. You may instead discard your absentee ballot and vote in-person at your polling location between 6:30AM and 7:30PM - find your site at Voter Search. Disregard this message if you already returned your ballot or voted in person. These rules don't apply to military and citizens abroad returning absentee ballots."
 
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