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My life and the life of my wife are in danger now from Leftists. I could never put on a Trump hat or place a Trump sticker or sign near me. Deadly serious.
Exactly how tolerant are the Leftist BLM and Antifa scum going to be after Nov. 3rd? Either way.
In my youth I had a non-acceptable, non-leftist bumper stick on my parked car as I went to my political science classes at Wayne State University in Detroit. Came back to find the engine badly sabotaged with cut wires and missing parts. Expensive lesson.
Early voting starts tomorrow in FL. I met with my coordinator from the Trump campaign yesterday to get my poll watcher credentials and packet for Seminole County. We have to wear sandwich board sized credentials any time we are in the voting room or the no electioneering boundaries. EVERYONE must wear the same style. No “voting rights attorney” badges will be allowed.
The Trump campaign has assigned attorneys to us who are members of the Florida bar in case we have issues. Biteme’s campaign has a much more haphazard process of recruiting and assigning legal help to the field.
Broward was very loosey goosey with rules inside the polling place. This is my first year in Seminole. My early voting site is smack dab in the middle of Karenville so if this thread is running tomorrow I will let you know how it went.
My son is a registered Democrat and voted absentee straight R.
Franklin Co. OHIO
I know he is a registered Dem because he get mail at our address.
Hall County Ga, working the Murrayville Library voting location.
In this early election residents can vote at any open location, not just their home precinct.
Days one and two we had a good number of Ds come through. That trailed off by end of week as the lines shortened, but never slowed.
Our location was forecast to process 1000 voters in 3 weeks and we broke 1000 by noon of second day of voting. Thursday was our highest number of voters.
All ages, from first time voters to seniors who needed help in the booth.
Nearly 10% of votes cast were people canceling or surrendering their absentee ballots for fear of their vote not being counted.
Our area is safe red, roughly 80% Trump.
Will advise how next week goes.
Got a general question. There is a list of judges on the ballot.I tried to determine their party affiliation. Almost impossible to get that information. Any ideas on how to get that information? (Simple google search didn’t help)
The local news media was there at the country courthouse, one of two locations for early voting. We often vote early and haven't seen lines as we saw on the first day of early voting.
There were at least 100 people ahead of us after we went through the metal detector and had our temperatures took - masks required, of course. Officers present were not enforcing social distancing.
I'm guessing there were as many Biden supporters as Trump supporters. Everyone was friendly and cordial with each other. An atmosphere of we're all in this together seemed to be present if you can imagine that.
We ended up waiting in line for about 40 minutes. One of the officers said the line wasn't as long as it had been. Earlier, they told us the line stretched outside of the building and around the corner. I'm guessing probably another third to half again as long as when we got there around noon.
Some never vote (ones not registered). I believe those numbers will remain pretty much the same, but for those registered, I think this election will set record numbers voting.
One glitch: when I presented ID and tried to check in, the poll worker made me sign an affidavit promising that I would destroy a mail-in absentee ballot I had requested. Of course, I never requested such a ballot, nor had I received one, and it is illegal in GA to send out ballots unrequested.
When I contacted Fulton County elections about the issue later that day, I got a big runaround . . . until finally an official assured me there was no record on file of my having requested a ballot at all. "Just a mistake on the poll worker's part." No, of course I don't believe that for 5 seconds.
Thank you for starting this; been wondering myself.
Our early voting in TN started this past Wednesday and runs through Oct. 29. Hours in Montgomery County are 8-6 M-F and 8-4 on Saturday. I plan on going mid-week next week towards the end of the day; when I did that back during the primary I was the only one voting.
The first day of early voting in the county saw 3020 voters. First person in line arrived at 4 a.m.-four hours early.
News article with some pics: https://clarksvillenow.com/local/first-day-of-early-voting-draws-over-3000-at-election-commission/
Voted on Thursday at 2:00 pm. At the Marriott in Bluegrass Industrial park in Louisville, KY. The Jefferson County runs its own voting. Lots of elder voters. No waiting in line but they were very efficient. Had to scan driver’s license to computer and sign. Felt comfortable about the vote being counted. A poll worker said about 10,000 had already voted. Mostly white voters, but that’s because of where it was located. Can’t compare it to 2016, as the polling place we normally go was not used in 2020.
Early voting started last Tuesday in Texas. It was packed all day every day last week at my county polling place. I went ahead and voted Thursday afternoon and waited in line two hours. The lines were even longer on Friday.
If you have early voting in your state, don’t wait until election day. Vote now before someone else votes in your name.
Just drove back to DC from Dewey Beach, DE. Lots of Trump signs in Eastern shore Maryland and Delaware.
My neighborhood in Northern Virginia is ultra-liberal blue. But FAR fewer Biden signs than Hillary 2016 signs. A small number of Trump signs now, compared to ZERO in 2016.
During the check-in procedure, I presented my Texas Driver's License, and had to confirm something on a screen verifying who I was, etc, and I had to sign on the screen with the disposable stylus they gave me. They then presented me with a paper ballot.
I loaded the ballot into the computer voting machine and voted for all the R candidates. When I was finished, the ballot printed out with all my sections accurately printed. I then loaded the ballot into another machine. There was one other person finishing up on another machine while I voted.
My district has traditionally been red, but I think we are turning a bit purple due to the influx of foreigners. Tom Delay was our congressman until he retired. Pete Olson has been our rep for a number of years, but he is one of the retiring republicans. This year the race is between Sheriff Troy Nehls (GOP) and a guy named Sri Kulkarni (Democrat). The nomination of a guy with such a foreign sounding name (even though he was born in the USA) relates IMO to the influx of people from India and the mideast.
I did not vote in the March primary until election day and had to go after work. The line was wrapping around the building that day. When I voted in the runoff in May(?), I again waited until election day and stood in line outside. Yesterday's early vote took all of 5 minutes.
I tried voting yesterday afternoon and the line was long - a wait of 40 minutes or more. The poll gal said it had been like that all day. I have never seen this in my city during early voting.
I have a terrible feeling that blue states will try to stop in person voting on Nov 3
Knox County TN - very long lines on Saturday. Any Knox County voter can early vote there - they figure out what precinct you’re in and print a ballot for you - you mark it and they scan it. 59-35 for Trump in 2016.
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