I Don't Care Who or Why. . . .

[turkel]

I am an in-person voter on election day every single time, except having to vote absentee while in college. there is something about showing up on The Day that I like. No long lines where I vote, but a long line would not turn me away.

I'd like to see one national primary day. I have always felt kinda screwed out of the primary process since we don't vote until May, well past dust settling. It's infuriating that my primary vote has never counted, so for decades, I didn't bother.

Try living in a state where your vote Never counts.

I mailed my ballot in 2016 from Lake Tahoe, but I live in SoCal.

We currently work in NorCal but consider SoCal home. We timed our visit this last week so we could vote in person. It was important to us to vote due to 2 initiatives that could have adversely effected us long term.

Also found out I am registered under my old name....Ugh. Guess I will just reregister at some point.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

Try living in a state where your vote Never counts.

I mailed my ballot in 2016 from Lake Tahoe, but I live in SoCal.

We currently work in NorCal but consider SoCal home. We timed our visit this last week so we could vote in person. It was important to us to vote due to 2 initiatives that could have adversely effected us long term.

Also found out I am registered under my old name....Ugh. Guess I will just reregister at some point.

Okay. That explains a lot. For some reason mailing via USPS from Tahoe is a problem. We tried to mail vendor payments around the same timeframe by depositing at several Tahoe post offices and they were never delivered to other parts of Calif. Hope it is fixed now but we stopped mailing from there because it's unreliable.

 

[easyrider]

My area uses mail-in ballots, which we then drop off in a box in front of the police station, thus eliminating the post office from the equation. I had to check the box on the outer envelope, but it doesn’t much matter to me who sees the box I check. My recollection is that I had to declare a party when I registered to vote anyway. As long as they count my vote, the rest doesn’t matter to me.

Dave

I can see how you would likely not have a problem checking a party box in King County unless you were checking Republican, lol.

Bill

 

[JudiZ]

Try living in a state where your vote Never counts.

My brother-in-law says the same thing. He is a Republican in Cook County, IL. I can't imagine how frustrating that must be. We live in a town of 13,000 where candidates and initiatives pass and fail by less than 50 votes. When we first moved to NH in 1985, it was bright red. Even Democrats voted for Ronald Reagan! Demographics have changed a great deal and we are now solidly purple. I, for one love it. I really do love the wild,wild west feel to the politics here. For better or worse, never a dull moment. Of course, if we ever lose that first-in-the-nation primary, we'll never see a candidate again.

 

[DeniseM]

We always get a mail in ballot, because we like to be able to sit and take our time when filling it out. But we drop them off of on election day, because that way we know they got there. In California, you can drop your mail in ballot off at any polling place, and there are also polling places that are just for dropping off mail in ballots.

 

[Passepartout]

Try living in a state where your vote Never counts.

Same deal here. We've exchanged phone numbers with the other Dems in flamin' red Idaho. It's a very small list.

 

[Rolltydr]

Same deal here. We've exchanged phone numbers with the other Dems in flamin' red Idaho. It's a very small list.

I’m a Democrat living in the most Republican county of very Republican Alabama. Fortunately, my wife is the other one!