Early voting: Half of U.S. begins voting by tomorrow (which was today)

NBC News ^ | 9/21/12 | Kyle Inskeep

[Libloather]

Early voting: Half of U.S. begins voting by tomorrow
By NBC's Kyle Inskeep
1 day ago

Election Day may be Nov. 6th, but with President Obama grabbing a lead nationally and in key swing states, Americans are already starting to vote.

Idaho, South Dakota, and the crucial swing state of Virginia are the first states to begin early, in-person voting today.

Also today, absentee voting begins in Minnesota, West Virginia, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Georgia, Arkansas, Idaho, and Maryland, bringing the total number of states already accepting ballots to 13. Twelve others -- South Carolina, New Jersey, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Delaware, Louisiana, and Missouri -- will begin absentee or early voting Saturday.

That means, by tomorrow, half the country will be casting votes. By the end of the month, voters in 30 states will be voting already.

[DoughtyOne]

There’s no way we should be allowing this process to take place over six weeks. This opens the window for fraud 3,500 miles wide.

[Terry Mross]

I’m almost back to believing our votes don’t count. Some puppetmasters control everything and they’re putting out these polls so we’ll be expecting it when Romney loses. I don’t know who the puppetmasters are but I think there are some strings tied to the GOP, too.

[John Leland 1789]

We have early voting so that the leftists have enough time to tamper with the votes.

[Guardian Sebastian]

Wow, 10 illegal votes to one legal one. Makes you wonder what the true tally would be without all of this cheating.

[kabar]

Early voting helps the Dems commit voter fraud. They will ensure that all those phony names they registered show up to vote. They will send the buses to the old age homes to pick them up to vote.

Someone who is knowledgeable about the subject told me that more people voted for McCain on election day than for Obama. It was the early voting that gave Obama his margin of victory.

[kabar]

Funny, but all those people used to vote just on election day except for some absentee ballots. Early voting was another Dem initiative to give them more time and flexibility to cheat. All those college students will be voting where they attend school as well as in their state of residence.

[Woodsman27]

It makes it easier on working people, the disabled, and others to be able to cast a ballot and cuts down on lines.

I’m all for the idea but think that the amount of hours is absurd. For instance if you open it today and some goes out and votes they have no ability to change their mind if something bad comes out about a candidate. I think one to two weeks of early voting would be ideal. More than a month early is absurd.

Personally i’d also like to see Election Day become a national holiday.

[Nuc 1.1]

We have early voting so dims can cheat.

[1035rep]

I vote absentee so I don’t have to fight my way through the Black Panthers on election day.

[castlegreyskull]

“I vote absentee so I don’t have to fight my way through the Black Panthers on election day.”

Make sure you get it postmarked. Remember in 2000, when the Dems were throwing out the military’s in Florida because they lacked a postmark. I believe in my heart that postmark was left off intentionally to this day. I was a military member from Floriday at that time. It steams me to hear people say that Bush stole that election, and all I can think about are the 25000+ absentee ballots that literally got tossed by no fault of the servicemen.