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I prefer to vote by absentee ballot. That way I can know exactly what is on the ballot and take my time researching each candidate and proposal. I also don’t have to worry about not making it to the polling station if something comes up.
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Well, that's your prerogative. But I gotta say you'd be an idiot to risk your life to do something in person if you can safely do it by mail.
Actually, I plan to vote in person, because I want to be sure my vote is counted. But if I felt that going in person would jeopardize my life, you better believe I would vote by mail.
Risk one's life? Can you be any more dramatic? A healthy man (I presume) in his 30s will risk his life by going to in-person voting? From what? Covid? He's gotta a better chance of dying in his car on his way to the polling place than he does from Covid.
Are you people unable to put things in perspective?
Risk one's life? Can you be any more dramatic? A healthy man (I presume) in his 30s will risk his life by going to in-person voting? From what? Covid? He's gotta a better chance of dying in his car on his way to the polling place than he does from Covid.
Are you people unable to put things in perspective?
You realize eligible voters are not restricted to healthy, young men - right?
I already voted by mail, and it was against trump. I want the US to work together with Japan, Canada, and Western Europe on global issues instead of trying to do its own contradictory thing and damaging its face value.
If you want to vote in person, go ahead. But don’t need to tell others to die for it. I’m past the selective service age, that ended 2 years ago.
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Got my mail in ballot. I’d vote in person if there was no other option though, I can agree with that part.
What I would be wary of in-person would be the intimidating (and obnoxious) groups the Trump team is training to “stand by” at polling places. The alt-right militias.
”As Trump team rushes to train 'army' of poll watchers, experts on watch for voter intimidation.” ...more than a dozen Trump field generals organizing Election Day poll-watching operations in key battleground states and are now engaged in almost-daily training sessions preparing volunteers for long shifts watching the voting process unfold. The president’s campaign is calling it “Trump’s Army,” which they maintain will be a force of 50,000, now being prepped to spend hours quietly eyeballing voters... https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-team...ry?id=73542441
Seems like the Trump-teams efforts are actually encouraging us to vote by mail.
I find it absolutely stomach-churning that this voting by mail has become so widespread.
It is not good.
I'm very comfortable with mail in voting.. At least there is a paper trail - and no "hanging chads". Personally, I choose to drop off my ballot using the drive through line at the secure ballot box at our local police station.
I track my ballot online. I see that its been officially accepted, as has my husband's. +2 for Biden.
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You realize eligible voters are not restricted to healthy, young men - right?
You do realize the poster who questioned this man's decision to vote in person, asked him specifically why he wanted to do it in-person, while knowing full well he was 38 years old?
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Irrelevant. There are many people for whom voting in person would risk their health and possibly their life. Their votes are equally important.
Wow, crazy person, I never said they weren't. I was simply saying a healthy 38 year old person has almost zero chance of dying while voting in-person, and has no reason to fear of doing so.
Your prerogative. It's pathetic that in what is still a first world country, anyone should need to risk their health and possibly their life to vote. In Colorado we've been successfully voting via mail for years.
It's just a rhetorical question. Got our absentee ballots within a few days in the mail, filled them out and put them in the drop-box. They are ready to be counted on election day.
I am in my late-30s, and have always felt like it was my right, my heritage, my duty to vote. And voting in-person is important to me. I find it absolutely repugnant that this mail-in voting seems to be exploding. It is distirbing.
And I would risk acquiring a disease in the process of carrying out my American right to vote (in person) if that is what it required.
Considering you're from 'Mogadishu' I'm surprised you don't have bigger safety concerns while trying to vote in person. But since you believe you are at such a serious risk of contracting Covid-19 at the voting booth, you might want to consider you could get it then pass it on to your parents or grandma and grandpa, or someone else's family members.
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