"Early voting" really bit us in the @$$ this election. And "Early voting" (which is NOT the same as absentee voting, you need a legitimate reason you can't be there on election day to Absentee vote) is a relatively new thing, as I recall it didn't exist prior to 2006 or so. In Illinois, most of the "early voting" sites are city halls run by city employees. Joy.
It seems we DID have a "blue wave" in 2018... two weeks AFTER the election!
>> I’m half expecting lost ballots from 1988 to show up. “Turns out Dukakis won!!!!” <<
Nah, that one wasn't close enough to steal. But at this rate, the RATS could probably retroactively elect Harvey Gantt to the U.S. Senate over Jesse Helms...I'm sure there are truckloads of ballots waiting to be counted that they "missed" in 1990!
Dukakis still wouldn’t have been elected president of course. But Illinois itself was pretty close, 2% race, only 95K votes, JaBba’s butt crack could hold twice as many ballots.
I’m pretty sure these aren’t the “early votes” (cast in person) taking so long to be counted and coming in heavily rat. It’s absentees but especially the damn provisional ballots, you know the ones they don’t count till they verify you are actually registered (because you aren’t!).
Cali allows mail-ins beyond just absentees and it’s since 2016 it’s just absurd.
I do frown on early voting however, I think it hurts us (I early voted myself though, may as well take advantage, remember they add votes, they can’t subtract votes) and makes fraud easier. And let’s face it, lazy scum vote democrat so anything that makes it easier to vote is gonna be bad, even if they are legal voters.
I voted early at Downers Grove Village Hall since I would be out of town on election day. Didn’t need to give a reason. I stayed in my voting booth to make sure the paper ballot print-out matched my touch-screen screen hits. Were these the kind of machine that were suspect in 2016? I recall the Downers Site had reports of Trump votes counting as Hillary votes. DuPage is now a vast wasteland.