We early voted this am as well. First time early voter. No line, very well run. NC requires ID. I have to say I appreciate this option now, particularly since it avoids falling into some cataclysmic event happening on Election Day which throws our votes into limbo. (See Maricopa, 2020.). Also happy to report that my better half finally threw in the towel on Harris — tired of her endless evasions, couldn’t vote for a vacuum. So, plus 2 for the amazingly strong orange man and his brilliant sidekick.
Voted last week in NC. Well run, voter ID. Canceled out my GF's vote. We always joke about not bothering because we cancel each other out; then we both vote anyway.
How can anyone show up at the polling place and still be undecided? When I voted, I had filled out my sample ballot in advance and brought it with me. I didn't need to agonize over any decisions because I had already made them before leaving home. An undecided voter is someone who really isn't ready to vote yet.
Also, shouldn't those biographies actually be arranged in some kind of order? They don't seem to be alphabetized by either the subject or the author. I've read Savage Beauty about Edna St. Vincent Millay, but none of the others.
I turned in my ballot on the first day here in Nevada. I needn't have hurried, since the court extended the deadline beyond election day, throwing all efforts at election integrity into a cocked hat.
If you were legitimately undecided as of today, you should probably have waited to vote until next Tuesday. To give yourself the maximum amount of time to digest all the information, to wait for any new developments and October Surprises, etc. Why vote today if you might change your mind tomorrow, or next Monday?
My mental model of undecided voters was that if neither candidate was persuasive, they just wouldn't bother to vote (e.g. me in 2016), but I suppose there's people who just line up and decide on the spot. Or leave the line for President blank.
If you are an R in a battleground state then voting early frees up resources that would be spent chasing your ballot on the day or shortly after. All my AZ friends voted early to save Turning Point Action the trouble of those GOTV efforts.
It's simply inconceivable that she votes for Harris. No matter what reservations she may have about OrangeHitler, her stated problems with Harris should be an impermeable barrier to oozing out ink to fill that circle. But that's just me not wanting to be disappointed that I fell for her red herrings.
Pretty hard to detect a difference between the candidates this year. Such similar visions for the future of the country. Really tough to choose. Well, la di da!
Our hostess is ever coy. She is providing entertainment and an outlet for the emotions of a specialized commentariat. She is not trying to educate us to vote a certain way. To do so would be to lose a significant part of her readership; many of those that vote the opposite of whatever way she might announce would leave; and those who come here to berate the other side would find other outlets to vent their horror and frustration.
While i have a guess as to how she voted, I would not want to wager on which way she went. She is a woman of many opinions, and she keeps it deliberately unclear which are decisive to her.
"Maye Musk @mayemusk When I became an American citizen, I registered as a Democrat as I thought it was the kind, caring party. Now it’s the party of dishonesty, corruption and malice. I have resigned, and am looking forward to voting Republican. I love America. Vote! ❤️🇺🇸
1) it’s possible to show up on Election Day only to find that “you” already voted if you are not in a mandatory ID state/county, and 2) Election Day may roll around only to find you sick in bed or otherwise indisposed/not able to attend due to extenuating circumstances.
And then there was 2022, in Maricopa County, AZ, where those in Republican precincts found that their ballots wouldn’t scan. Why not? Turns out a day or two before Election Day, the voting machines were tweaked (illegally, of course, since it was after they had been certified) to print the ballots at one size, and read them in at another. The result was thousands of disenfranchised voters who couldn’t stand around hours to get their ballots scanned in. And, they shut these polling locations down promptly, with long lines still outside waiting to vote. Of course, the Secretary of State didn’t question this, since she was rewarded by the governorship. And may have helped facilitate the disenfranchisement, since it pu the top three elective offices in Dem hands. That, alone, very likely put all three over the top.
Such a buildup for the traditional lib to vote for Kamala and all the anti-liberal policies that follow. Of all Trump's attributes as compared to Hillary, Biden, Kamala and the Obama re-treads running the country, Trump owes the establishment nothing. Vote Kamala and submit to big pharma, big sugar, Raytheon, Epstein clients, etc.
We have state elections Tuesday. Gov, legend, municipal.
Up to this year we had very limited absentee voting. S few thound. No early voting. Voter id card, paper ballot, finger in and NEVER any questions of cheat. It was physically impossible. Polls open 10-2,results by 8 pm
This year we have widespread absentee ballots
And lots of shenanigans already. Esp dead people voting.
Glad I'll be in Chicago next week (packexpo. Anyone going?) so I have an excuse for not participating in this charade.
I expect I will deregister if things turn out as I expect.
I always wait for election day. Will be a little tougher this year because of health issues that make walking a bit tough, but the weather forecast looks OK. Unfortunately, the bar on the same block as the polling place just shut down suddenly after 30+ years, so there's a choice I'll need to struggle with.
In Boston, of course, most of the candidates below the top couple of races are running unopposed (and it's usually futile choosing anyone in those couple of races). I always throw in a vote for the lesbian from JP or whoever who's running for whatever and has no chance of going anywhere.
While we are all curious to know who Ann voted for - she has a right to keep it to herself, imo - respect privacy.
Breaking: Biden sez what?
“Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?… The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
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63 comments:
Your so coy.
The world is no longer an audible at the line of scrimmage kind of world is it?
Will there be a follow up after your decision? Prediction: Neither T nor H, but would not be shocked if it's T. H would be a shock.
Our in-person no-excuse absentee starts tomorrow in KY, and I'll go cancel my wife's votes then before working the election next Tuesday.
We early voted this am as well. First time early voter. No line, very well run. NC requires ID. I have to say I appreciate this option now, particularly since it avoids falling into some cataclysmic event happening on Election Day which throws our votes into limbo. (See Maricopa, 2020.). Also happy to report that my better half finally threw in the towel on Harris — tired of her endless evasions, couldn’t vote for a vacuum. So, plus 2 for the amazingly strong orange man and his brilliant sidekick.
Why vote early? I'll wait till election day
Is Cornel West on the ballot in WI?
Just got back from Ohio's "Early Voting". I voted for 4 years of gridlock.
That's it! An audible. Althouse can just yell "Omaha!" as she leaves the polling place, and we (and only we) will know she's voting like Begley.
"Who are you voting for?"
"Look, a squirrel!"
TRUMan and TRUMp. Is it a clue?
Voted last week in NC. Well run, voter ID. Canceled out my GF's vote. We always joke about not bothering because we cancel each other out; then we both vote anyway.
I also resist voting for ciphers. The Devil You Know, and all that.
Trust, but verify.
Excellent response, planetgeo
I finished Truman last winter. It took several loan periods from the digital library over about 6 months.
Heh. 'Herewegoooooo...!!!'
How can anyone show up at the polling place and still be undecided? When I voted, I had filled out my sample ballot in advance and brought it with me. I didn't need to agonize over any decisions because I had already made them before leaving home. An undecided voter is someone who really isn't ready to vote yet.
Also, shouldn't those biographies actually be arranged in some kind of order? They don't seem to be alphabetized by either the subject or the author. I've read Savage Beauty about Edna St. Vincent Millay, but none of the others.
I also see the John Bolton book. Probably never been checked out.
I turned in my ballot on the first day here in Nevada. I needn't have hurried, since the court extended the deadline beyond election day, throwing all efforts at election integrity into a cocked hat.
Undecided while in line to vote. This is why need to repeal the 19th Amendment.
If you were legitimately undecided as of today, you should probably have waited to vote until next Tuesday. To give yourself the maximum amount of time to digest all the information, to wait for any new developments and October Surprises, etc. Why vote today if you might change your mind tomorrow, or next Monday?
My flabber has truly been gasted by the fact that she is in line and undecided.
I don't even know who the Libertarian pothead is this year.
This is precisely why "early voting" shouldn't be legal.
My mental model of undecided voters was that if neither candidate was persuasive, they just wouldn't bother to vote (e.g. me in 2016), but I suppose there's people who just line up and decide on the spot. Or leave the line for President blank.
I was undecided on one candidate (not the POTUS) until I was filling out the oval. It's not a good feeling.
@Althouse Is it frequent that you don't make your voting decision until the actual moment of voting?
If you are an R in a battleground state then voting early frees up resources that would be spent chasing your ballot on the day or shortly after. All my AZ friends voted early to save Turning Point Action the trouble of those GOTV efforts.
Stein was good enough as the not-Trump option in 2016, right? Isn't she still on the ballot in WI?
I I was still undecided, I would have waited until election day.
It's simply inconceivable that she votes for Harris. No matter what reservations she may have about OrangeHitler, her stated problems with Harris should be an impermeable barrier to oozing out ink to fill that circle. But that's just me not wanting to be disappointed that I fell for her red herrings.
- Krumhorn
Pretty hard to detect a difference between the candidates this year. Such similar visions for the future of the country. Really tough to choose. Well, la di da!
Monica Lewinsky is hoping to be the next Dem nominee.
Tru an which sounds like Tru Ann. Which I put in the blog search and it gave me
This 👉🏽 LINK 👉🏽 “Champion of the beleaguer incumbent”
It depends on who does Althouse believe is the incumbent.
You know what else the blog search “True Ann” returns?
Some of the lengthiest posts on this blog.
The tabulators here will kick back a blank ballot but it can be overridden. We had somebody do that in the precinct I worked a couple years ago.
The fact that there is so much uncertainty here about the way The Professor will vote is objective verification of the "cruel neutrality" claim.
Was it worth it?
In Texas you can’t have a cell phone out within 100 feet of a voting station. It’s the law.
Trump says Kamala is the incumbent and Kamala asks her rally crowds “Are you ready for change?”
Our hostess is ever coy. She is providing entertainment and an outlet for the emotions of a specialized commentariat. She is not trying to educate us to vote a certain way. To do so would be to lose a significant part of her readership; many of those that vote the opposite of whatever way she might announce would leave; and those who come here to berate the other side would find other outlets to vent their horror and frustration.
While i have a guess as to how she voted, I would not want to wager on which way she went. She is a woman of many opinions, and she keeps it deliberately unclear which are decisive to her.
My wife and I did that last Friday around 11:00 am at the Village Hall. No line.
and now a word from Maye Musk:
"Maye Musk
@mayemusk
When I became an American citizen, I registered as a Democrat as I thought it was the kind, caring party. Now it’s the party of dishonesty, corruption and malice. I have resigned, and am looking forward to voting Republican. I love America. Vote! ❤️🇺🇸
1) it’s possible to show up on Election Day only to find that “you” already voted if you are not in a mandatory ID state/county, and 2) Election Day may roll around only to find you sick in bed or otherwise indisposed/not able to attend due to extenuating circumstances.
Yes. Everyone under the sun is on the ballot for President in WI. Seriously, Cornel makes it 8 on the Presidential ballot in WI.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
And then there was 2022, in Maricopa County, AZ, where those in Republican precincts found that their ballots wouldn’t scan. Why not? Turns out a day or two before Election Day, the voting machines were tweaked (illegally, of course, since it was after they had been certified) to print the ballots at one size, and read them in at another. The result was thousands of disenfranchised voters who couldn’t stand around hours to get their ballots scanned in. And, they shut these polling locations down promptly, with long lines still outside waiting to vote. Of course, the Secretary of State didn’t question this, since she was rewarded by the governorship. And may have helped facilitate the disenfranchisement, since it pu the top three elective offices in Dem hands. That, alone, very likely put all three over the top.
Stein for not-Trump/helps-Trump ftw. If you can't even but still kinda like him.
definitely define : womanly? fickly ?-
ballot =
multiple choice Q's we already know like Harris knows her interview items.
when Harris can be undecided after knowing Q's why not professora?
Such a buildup for the traditional lib to vote for Kamala and all the anti-liberal policies that follow. Of all Trump's attributes as compared to Hillary, Biden, Kamala and the Obama re-treads running the country, Trump owes the establishment nothing. Vote Kamala and submit to big pharma, big sugar, Raytheon, Epstein clients, etc.
Yes, very much so
We have state elections Tuesday. Gov, legend, municipal.
Up to this year we had very limited absentee voting. S few thound. No early voting. Voter id card, paper ballot, finger in and NEVER any questions of cheat. It was physically impossible. Polls open 10-2,results by 8 pm
This year we have widespread absentee ballots
And lots of shenanigans already. Esp dead people voting.
Glad I'll be in Chicago next week (packexpo. Anyone going?) so I have an excuse for not participating in this charade.
I expect I will deregister if things turn out as I expect.
John Henry
Granddaughter turned 20 and is excited about voting for the 2nd time.
First time she was about 6. I took her in the booth and told her to make some xs.
John Henry
I disagree. I often listen to Audible when in long lines. Oh wait...
I voted early because I start county jury duty in 4 November, for one thing.
I always wait for election day. Will be a little tougher this year because of health issues that make walking a bit tough, but the weather forecast looks OK. Unfortunately, the bar on the same block as the polling place just shut down suddenly after 30+ years, so there's a choice I'll need to struggle with.
Althouse's "It's a long line" cracked me up.
--gpm
In Boston, of course, most of the candidates below the top couple of races are running unopposed (and it's usually futile choosing anyone in those couple of races). I always throw in a vote for the lesbian from JP or whoever who's running for whatever and has no chance of going anywhere.
--gpm
Please. You were always going to vote for Harris and did so. You would have voted for Biden.
While we are all curious to know who Ann voted for - she has a right to keep it to herself, imo - respect privacy.
Breaking: Biden sez what?
“Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?… The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
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