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Because I saw the news about voter dropbox being fire bombed and the head of USPS deliberately slowing down mail. I don't trust that my mail-in vote will count, so I voted early in-person.
Only one guy was doing the drop box thing and you can recast a mail ballot if you need to. If the crazies try to attack your polling place on election day, you're probably not getting your vote in on time at all. Also USPS doesn't lay a finger on ballots dropped in the ballot box, they only carry mail ballots that are mailed instead of dropped off.
I'm lucky enough to work for an organization which furnishes me with up to 4 hours of paid leave to vote. Plus, my polling place is on the road home, and I've never waited longer than a couple of minutes to vote. Finally, doing it in person feels more impactful, even if that's just a perception thing.
paid leave is the first answer that would get me to vote in person.
I can't believe none of you wait in lines haha, it's good to hear but absolutely surreal.
I don't think I've ever been to a voting office without waiting for at least half an hour.
I get this question a lot, since my wife and I always vote in person. The place where we vote is right around the corner from us, a 2 minute walk. We go mid morning and there's never a line. It's just more fun for us, kind of a tradition. The same poll workers have been there for several years and it's always nice to see them.
As microscopically unimportant as our two votes are in the big picture, they are still important to us.
If I still lived in some of the places I did in the past, I would definitely mail it in. Those places always had a long wait.
oh, cool.
that makes sense.
i've usually lived in busier places, so there was always long lines and just everything was a mess.
and I've never lived close, so it was always a chore to get there in the first place.
nice!
I'm always paranoid that they will try to throw out my early vote in some way.
paranoia. I am familiar.
you get a confirmation email in the states I know about after your vote is counted early, so you know that your vote was received and recorded.
how would voting in a person make it more difficult for the non-federal employees to throw away your vote versus federal employees in a federal building?
or does it just feel-better-in-person?
I'm just curious about personal experiences here, you should definitely go in person if you prefer that.
Where I vote, I sign a book next to my name, enter everything on a computer, which prints out a ballot. I can review what it says, and then I put it into the scanner which shows that the vote count has increased by one.
The process leaves my "footprints" all over the system. It would be much harder to say I didn't vote in this way, than if my mail-in ballot "got lost in the mail."
you can track your mail in ballot, but I do like what you're talking about, leaving physical recordings and evidence of you voting.
Lack of trust in the USPS due to trump and dejoy. I do not trust that my ballot will not be tampered with in transit or lost.
I'm not eligible to vote by mail in my state, not many people are.
Because I voted early in person
using an electronic voting machine?
Less paper relative to an in-person vote
Because I voted early in person. Didn't take much more time, I know my ballot was received, and I got a milkshake on the way back.
As someone who did vote by mail, Im half convinced they'll find some bullshit reason to discount my vote. "Didn't fill in the bubble enough" or some shit."
100% why I think online/digital voting should be standard. It's insane that so many people are willing to trust some Joe Schmo with their own opinions and desires over a machine that does exactly what it's told and confirmed to work that way beforehand.
Pretty sure all voting security professionals agree that you need a paper trail to verify, in the event of data loss or hacking. Adding an online voting option would be more convenient, but also make it more convenient to foreign interests who want to disrupt the election. The added convenience doesn't justify the risk.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/
It’s easier and less stressful for me to vote in person. My polling place is like a two block walk and there’s rarely a line, plus I know there’s no room for shenanigans to disenfranchise me.
Mail in voting seems more complicated, although my state mails them out by default and it’s probably just lack of familiarity. Anyway, in person is easy and pleasant so I don’t see any reason to change.
I don’t know if I’d need to buy stamps but I’m already late for my new lawn care guy because he insists I need to mail him a check but I haven’t had stamps in years and he’s about the only check I write
This year is the first time it’s complicated though. My older kid is voting for the first time and I want to vote with him for that milestone. He’s at college but didn’t follow up with mail in voting so we have to figure out the logistics of getting him home on a school/work day
oh great. yeah that totally makes sense.
I always waited in lines lines in an uncomfortable, stressful atmosphere, so I prefer the quietude at my own time in my own home.
Good luck with your son, I'm sure you guys will figure it out.
An illogical and faint hope that Harris's campaign will commit to being less cartoonishly evil in the Middle East if they see their Michigan numbers are looking bad enough and also my polling place is close, quick, and convenient.