I did a little preparatory pamphlet reading today, just to test the waters.
A friend in Oregon teased me with their psilocybin initiative, which I understand is very popular there. Maybe mushrooms will be legal in my lifetime!
I did a little preparatory pamphlet reading today, just to test the waters.
A friend in Oregon teased me with their psilocybin initiative, which I understand is very popular there. Maybe mushrooms will be legal in my lifetime!
There’s been at least one report
Of trump ‘Volunteers’ in Colorado a couple days ago standing guard at a ballot Dropbox. Apparently they asked a woman for her ID, she said no and they backed off. She called the authorities and cops or someone came by and the two guys were gone. If that’s all that happens things will be fine.
We have our ballot dropbox here outside our Senior Center. If some "guard" is there asking for ID, it won't go so well...Originally Posted by jp1
I didn't run into any BS like that when I dropped my ballot off at the local library on monday. Just a steady stream of people like me doing their voting. The old guy in front of me gave me a big smile and thumbs up and said "vote the ****er out." I assumed he was talking about trump and returned the thumbs up but, who knows, perhaps he was referring to the accountant running for re-election to the community college board...
“volunteers” as you use the term are not at our polls beCause they are made to leave.There is no hanging around.
We put our ballots in the drop box yesterday. No ne was around except a young guy with a backpack playing with his phone and 3 construction workers. Quick and easy unlike those poor souls in GA and soon to be TX.
I don’t understand why separate dropbox is needed anyway. Do you all not trust the US mail? I just don’t get it.
Yesterday I put mine in the mailbox. Am I naïve for thinking that it will actually get to the election office within two weeks.?
I have four or five voting drop boxes within about five miles of my home, outside libraries, parks, city building, etc. But just one post office. At least here it's as much a matter of convenience as anything (and saving a stamp). I suspect there is no difference between them as long as the ballot is dropped of in time.
I didn't want to chance any problems--and I didn't want to pay for a stamp, so I used the drop box. The drop box is also right outside of town hall where I usually vote so it felt a lot more direct.
For me, a couple of reasons:
- It seems more like a voting ritual to take it into the town and put it into the box at what passes for a civic location on this island. Voting in person here used to be so much more fun, as there were little old ladies working the polls, and coffee and cookies there after you voted.
- The box is escorted by multiple county employees quite often to the next island over, where our county seat is, where they are placed into the counting/sorting apparatus, with full chain-of-custody the entire way.
- USPS mail here, by contrast, gets packed up, sent all the way over to the mainland to be sorted, then brought back and delivered. It doesn't even get postmarked here if you drop it into any of the USPS offices - the only way to get a postmark same-day here is to go to the counter of the USPS office and send the mail some other class/service, which I did yesterday to hit my Oct 15 IRS date.
- USPS mail deliveries the past few months have had unexpected delays and errors, causing mail delays of days-to-weeks. This has not happened in my previous 20+ years of living here. Not sure what's going on.
So, my ballot is going into my jacket pocket, right next to my gun, and off to the drop-box I go this afternoon.
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