Posted on 10/18/2020 1:28:39 PM PDT by bort
Please post early voting observations/data from your area of the country. These reports assist our election research Freepers in gathering up information to research and report. When posting your report, please:
1) Be VERY detailed with your report. State, county, city.
2) Is your precinct a red, blue or purple area? Did you notice anything different than in 2016?
3) Who is showing up? Race, age, cis-gender? /s
4) How long was the line? Anything out of the ordinary?
That’s how they do it here in Collin County, Texas. They print your ballot according to your precinct. Went yesterday, almost no lines.
We still need as many CA votes as possible to win the popular vote.
Massachusetts, Plymouth County
Red town (one of very few in Mass)
Short line, very civil, no problem
Average age at least 50
Our town of 30,000 had 1,200 vote over the weekend
Through Saturday 10/17 in Texas:
Over 23% of the registered voters in Texas’s 10 largest counties have voted. 2.3 million voters in those 10 counties.
The way the numbers are running, I wouldn’t be surprised if Harris County tops 100%.
NJ Gov. Murphy made voting in person illegal in NJ by executive order. Don’t count on NJ producing reliable results as Dems will take all positions despite national trends.
Hopefully it will be overturned when he gets tossed in 2021.
I am volunteering in Coweta county. Absentee ballots are not sent in Georgia unless you request them. Tons of people have been issued ballots because they checked the box marked elderly or disabled when they applied for absentee ballots during the primaries which indicated that they wanted to receive absentee ballots for the rest of the year. Some people are claiming that they have received multiple ballots when, in fact, they are absentee ballot requests. Sadly, they don’t know the difference. At least a lot of people are finally interested in exercising their right to vote.
Its the same way in NOVA. If I put a Trump sign out my property would be vandalized.
In Travis County, TX we vote with mini-condoms. Yep, here is how it works.
I live in Travis County, occupied territory. Outside of Austin city limits but within the county. Officially its called an “extra territorial jurisdiction” (EJT of Austin). We don’t vote in Austin city elections because we are EJT. Austin has some big prop on the ballot for a subway. Multi billion dollar adventure. Since I’m not within city limits, I couldn’t vote against it.
Anyway, Travis County website has a “waiting time” map. I found the shortest wait time (Ben Hur Shrine Center), supposedly 20 minutes or less. Wife and I drove there. Line was so long, couldn’t even tell which building the line fed into. No parking in lot, side street full. Let there are drove to the Renaissance Hotel Arboretum. Lots of parking and shorter line. Took about 40-45 minutes to get into the building.
When we get inside, they have little mini condoms for voters to put on your index finger (so they don’t have to keep cleaning the machine). Show ID, get ballot and vote.
The crowd was all Caucasians, but this is Travis County, 2/3 of the people there were Ds. I was the only person with a bright red shirt on. In Travis, all Rs can do is reduce D margin so the rest of the state can vote the right way.
Was the line long because of incompetence of the Democrats who run the board of elections, or was it long because of large turnout?
Definitely large turnout when I voted. That was Friday.
I just checked right now, and nearly every voting location says “green”, less than 20 minutes. Maybe because its Sunday at 6pm. But still 1 hour left to vote today.
https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/elections/wait-time-map.html
Seattle, Washington
Blue city, blue state
All mail-in voting
Requires signature for verification
Interesting Philadelphia Inquirer article today focusing on several Dem ward leaders who say that Trump interest remains strong in their heavily dem districts which Trump carried in 2016.
“Welcome to the two neighborhoods in deep-blue Philadelphia where Trump can win again”
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/trump-biden-philadelpha-northeast-south-20201017.html
There is no way John James was trailing by ten points.
We don't do mail-in; you have to have a statutory reason to request absentee. We do early voting and in person voting.
We don't count the absentee/early votes cast until Election day, but the number received/voting is reported to the Secretary of State every day.
Through yesterday, a total of 727,290 absentee/early votes have been cast. In contrast, a TOTAL of 1,522,925 were cast for Trump in 2016; 870,695 were cast for Hillary in 2016. We don't declare our party affiliation here in TN so no way to tell what % of the absentee/early are likely D and which are likely R.
I mailed my ballot in. I’m in California
I wonder whom I early voted for? Wonder what my positions were on the CA propositions?
Instead of receiving a ballot, I received my neighbor’s ballot. So I put it into his mailbox. Never received my ballot. I’ve asked for another which they say has been mailed. I don’t have it yet.
So who used mine? And if I get another, which ballot(s) will count?
Thanks for the advice! I was not able to find any information online. Called the local El Paso County Colorado GOP and they were able to help.
It turns out Colorado has “non-partisan” judges that are appointed and we get to vote if we retain them or not.
They provide a rating of the judges to let us know they have a good judicial temperament. Ugggh
I am voting no on all of them - if I do not know if they lean right or left or think that George Soros is the second coming - I ain’t risking it.
Again - Thanks very much for you input!!!!
I went to vote this morning at 10 am in Florida, Orange County, Apopka. The line was 3 times as long this year as last year and I did not get out until 12 noon! This is a red area and those I talked to were obviously Trump voters. There were blacks, whites, ages 30-84. The workers inside were shocked when I told them how long I stood in line and how many people were outside. My Democrat neighbor is elderly and voted absentee for Trump. Last year the line was around one side of the bldg.. This year it was around the side, the back the other side and the front!! A woman in line said she believes people are afraid their votes will be tossed in the garbage so they are voting in person.
I don’t vote for judges or school board folks if I can’t find any info on them or if Kansans for Life doesn’t endorse them.
Wife and I voted in our suburb in the Phoenix Valley in Maricopa County. We voted in our normal mail in ballot process that has been in use for many years. There is a Marine Corps vet who is in charge of their receipt and a computer site that tells you a date received so you can track it.
The only worry out here is the current Democrat Sheriff will not keep ballot harvesting from happening in various forms imported from California. Thanks for dragging your career past its sell-by date last election Sheriff Joe.
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