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This thread is for people who have already voted in the United States general election. (Sorry for people living in the rest of the world with your marginal democratic traditions) Please share your early voting stories, and talk about how easy/difficult the process was. I know that the lucky ones among you live in civilized states like Oregon and Washington where all voting is done by mail, but I know some of you have to go through a process to vote absentee or early. Basically, bump this thread when you vote. And I hope there isn't too many objections to making a D&D thread in GBS. This is more for fun stories and patting ourselves on the back, not for political arguments. (obviously if you haven't voted, but have a question about it, you can also post in this thread) glowing-fish fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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I am legally a resident of the State of Montana, but I live in Santiago de Chile. To vote, I downloaded and printed a form authorizing my absent voting, and giving them my e-Mail address. I had to mail it back to the United States, which despite the long journey, must have only taken a week, because I got an e-Mail with a link to a website. I filled out an electronic ballot, saved it as a pdf, and e-Mailed it back to the county clerk of my county in Montana. There were a few things that went wrong, the website for Montana wouldn't work for me, apparently because of my foreign IP address (which is kind of to be expected for people voting from a foreign country), so I had to go to a proxy server. I imagine a less technical person would have been clueless about this problem. But the entire thing was pretty easy, over all. The postage was a dollar, and it did take a week to get there, but it was pretty easy. And now I can be proud that I voted!
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Oct 24, 2016 04:39
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I voted for Hillary and Jay Inslee. Down ballot I don't give a poo poo, so wrote-in a lot of joke names as is my custom.
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Oct 24, 2016 04:47
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voted here in arizona by mail, specifically maricopa county gently caress arpaio, gently caress mccain, gently caress trump, voted for their opponens
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Oct 24, 2016 04:48
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:voted here in arizona by mail, specifically maricopa county What is the Arizona process like? Was it in person or absentee?
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Oct 24, 2016 05:01
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i voted for donald trump
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Oct 24, 2016 05:12
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Mail in from Utah. Voted straight ticket, save for potus. gently caress Trump, gently caress Clinton, and gently caress anyone wasting a vote on either one. I went with the third party candidate I thought had a chance of at least making a showing.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:12
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glowing-fish posted:I am legally a resident of the State of Montana, but I live in Santiago de Chile. To vote, I downloaded and printed a form authorizing my absent voting, and giving them my e-Mail address. I had to mail it back to the United States, which despite the long journey, must have only taken a week, because I got an e-Mail with a link to a website. I filled out an electronic ballot, saved it as a pdf, and e-Mailed it back to the county clerk of my county in Montana. i ttoo suffered many hardships on my journey but i overcame them and voted for donald trump
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Oct 24, 2016 05:14
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reallivedinosaur posted:i voted for donald trump how does it feel to be a hero?
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Oct 24, 2016 05:16
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Zorodius posted:how does it feel to be a hero? its not about the glory my boy i put my bootstraps on one at a time like everyone else
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Oct 24, 2016 05:17
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I got my ballot in the mail. It was four separate ballots (Lol California) but i filled it out and just have to put the stamps on it to send in
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Oct 24, 2016 05:17
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Genderfluent posted:I got my ballot in the mail. It was four separate ballots (Lol California) but i filled it out and just have to put the stamps on it to send in In California, do they do what they do in Oregon, and give you a voter pamphlet? Or sometimes two?
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Oct 24, 2016 05:21
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reallivedinosaur posted:i ttoo suffered many hardships on my journey but i overcame them and voted for donald trump What state are you in?
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Oct 24, 2016 05:21
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Voted Saturday in NV. Was about 65 minutes of waiting in line which would have been about 20 minutes if the line weren't composed almost entirely of old fuckers that took ten times as long as should have been necessary to push a few things on a touch screen.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:22
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scrubs season six posted:Voted Saturday in NV. Was about 65 minutes of waiting in line which would have been about 20 minutes if the line weren't composed almost entirely of old fuckers that took ten times as long as should have been necessary to push a few things on a touch screen. So they have staffed polling places open for at least two weeks before the election? Where do they find the volunteers or whatever to run them? That is pretty good, though.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:23
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glowing-fish posted:In California, do they do what they do in Oregon, and give you a voter pamphlet? Or sometimes two? Yeah I got a whole book of propositions and candidate statements from my county and from the state. You can bet I didn't read much of them
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Oct 24, 2016 05:23
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The OP is good for recognizing the superiority of the civilized states of Washington and Oregon. Voted in my pajamas.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:42
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Industrial Meat Package posted:The OP is good for recognizing the superiority of the civilized states of Washington and Oregon. Its not so much superiority as the only way to do things.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:46
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how much bodily fluid can i get on my ballot before they toss it
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Oct 24, 2016 05:45
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hth posted:how much bodily fluid can i get on my ballot before they toss it ihhave it on GOOD authority that you can soak a ballot 69% of the way before they put it in the hazmat bin
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Oct 24, 2016 05:46
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I early voted for none of the above. Thanks Richard Pryor you were a visionary ahead of your time
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Oct 24, 2016 05:47
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glowing-fish posted:What is the Arizona process like? Was it in person or absentee? arizona is shockingly progressive so i just had to go online and indicate i only want to vote by mail and they mailed a ballot w/ a return envelope etc which reminds me i voted for the maricopa county recorder helen purcell's opponent. she was responsible for the 7-8 hour voting lines at physical polling places for the primaries.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:51
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I voted absentee for Donald Trump. I think I may have orgasamed during the process.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:54
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i votd for tramp
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Oct 24, 2016 05:56
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R-Type posted:I voted absentee for Donald Trump. I think I may have orgasamed during the process. Han Solomon posted:i votd for tramp What state though? This thread really isn't about who you voted for, you can go to D&D and talk about that. This thread is about the PROCESS. Tell me how you felt, either standing in a line in the rain like an uncool east coast person, or lounging around home in your pajamas like a BEST COASTER.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:00
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I voted on the first day of early voting in my state. I got there after my dentist appointment, and a cameraman for a local news channel said I'd have to wait 30 minutes for polls to open, so I got breakfast, and when I came back within a minute of opening there was already a long line. It took about 20 minutes or so for me to get to the end of the line to vote. Also, I didn't see a single Trump sign. There was one Hillary sign that I noticed, but mostly it was local candidates, and a guy running for some city or state rep position was there handing out flyers and asking for people's votes. I took his flyer and tried to act nice, even though I didn't live in his district and it was super awkward. Also, they gave out state shaped stickers this time. I've been seeing them around lately, I guess early voting is pretty big this election. Space Robot fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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Oct 24, 2016 06:00
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:arizona is shockingly progressive didnt az vote to defund some community colleges entirely also isnt maricopa the place that has a caricature of boss hog as the sheriff ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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Oct 24, 2016 06:00
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shadowvine118 posted:I voted on the first day of early voting in my state. I got there after my dentist appointment, and a cameraman for a news channel said I'd have to wait 30 minutes for polls to open, so I got breakfast, and when I came back within a minute of opening there was already a long line. It took about 20 minutes or so for me to get to the end of the line to vote. Most places have like an exclusion zone for campaigning around polling places. Does your state not have one, or is it just not enforced?
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Oct 24, 2016 06:06
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I already voted... 1.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:09
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Friginator posted:I already voted... Whoa!!!! I was thinking it'd be one thing, and then you had a long space and it was something else entirely!  Well I'm voting this thread 2 in any case.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:10
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Kuato posted:Whoa!!!! I was thinking it'd be one thing, and then you had a long space and it was something else entirely! i will be voting a 4 to nullify bootleg krang's vote
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Oct 24, 2016 06:13
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Kuato posted:Whoa!!!! I was thinking it'd be one thing, and then you had a long space and it was something else entirely! What can I say? I'm just... a huge prick.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:13
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glowing-fish posted:Most places have like an exclusion zone for campaigning around polling places. Does your state not have one, or is it just not enforced? Maybe it's just a few feet. All he was doing was standing around and asking people to vote for him. The last time I voted before the primaries it was for local elections, and there were people standing around in the same area trying to convince me to vote for a particular person, but only one guy this time.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:23
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My entire dead family voted for Hillary Clinton.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:34
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yes she can commune with the dead, and is a witch
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Oct 24, 2016 06:37
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I just put in 25 votes for Hillary
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Oct 24, 2016 06:39
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My dog also voted foe Hillary. I filled out the ballot for him.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:40
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glowing-fish posted:So they have staffed polling places open for at least two weeks before the election? Where do they find the volunteers or whatever to run them? Yeah, it was at the city hall. Two people checking cards and about 10 touch screen things. Was open 10-2 on Saturday, not sure beyond that.
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Oct 24, 2016 06:47
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Mail in voting is really good
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Oct 24, 2016 06:51
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I would say who I voted for, but we're not allowed to say "friend of the family Hitler" in GBS unless we make it sound liek someone else is saying "friend of the family Hitler" using quotes or whatever. Some people just don't believe in democracy I guess.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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