Who is being voted for in the "others" category? And why are there over a thousand votes?
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Who is being voted for in the "others" category? And why are there over a thousand votes?
I got my absentee ballot a few days ago. This is my first time voting. I'm in NY, so it didn't seem relevant before considering the Electoral College system, but I'm so angry this year that I don't even care if my vote doesn't really matter for the EC, I want to contribute to voting this idiot out. If there's a huge popular vote landslide I'll feel nice that I contributed to that.
People seem a lot more motivated and a lot angrier this year, and it's not surprising. A ton has happened since 2016, and people are just sick of it.
People seem a lot more motivated and a lot angrier this year, and it's not surprising. A ton has happened since 2016, and people are just sick of it.
Its referring to turnout rate, not total people voted, for the 1908 comparison. It says on a raw numbers basis it would be a record.
Those are independent or "No Party Affiliation" ballots.
"Others" is referring to Independents and No Party Affiliation. That's who voted, not which party they voted for.
Understood, thanks to you both.
At a drop box? I thought early polling places (and thus drop boxes) open on the 24th? I'm in Seminole County so just wondering.
Its not early voting, its a mail in ballot that I am going to drop of at my campus drop box. Which gets delivered to the polling station tomorrow evening.
its my first time voting so I'm excited to get it done.
Love the turnout. But scared there won't be enough help to call it on election day. Unless they a system in place to count these quick?
Depends, really. Early voting at polling places count on election day, 100%. For mail-in/absentee ballots, some states verify and count as they are received. Some verify but don't count until election day. Some don't do either until election day and beyond.
Yea pretty sure everything received before (or even on election day) are counted that evening and reported. The unknown is states where they've extended the deadline past the election day as long as they are postmarked on election day. As long as those states aren't necessarily that close it won't matter.
I am going to vote on election day. I need that to distract me.
Even though there is not a single competitive race on my ballot :(
Even though there is not a single competitive race on my ballot :(
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Good call. Look at the interest here wtf
Early voting opened in SC Monday with widespread interest across the state
Early in-person absentee voting began on Monday across South Carolina, where long lines greeted thousands from Upstate to Lowcountry precincts.
We didn't vote for his dumbass in 2016, we happen to have a busted election system. GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote only once since 1992!
Turned in my ballot yesterday. I don't have much faith in Florida but this waste of shit needs to get gone.
Florida update from this afternoon, the new voter numbers are huge. Trump only won the state by just over 100k votes.
We can vote early next week. Going to get my sample ballot, and me and my wife are going to knock it out in person.
If at least one of these states is called for Biden in Election Day:
- Florida
- Pennsylvania
- Ohio
- North Carolina
It's pretty much over. Trump's path to victory is super narrow. Even if many of the swing states aren't called on November 3rd, one or more of these being called for Biden will give us a VERY good indication of the winner. Good thing for Biden, even if he loses states like Florida and Ohio, he still has a great chance of victory. We just probably wouldn't know the results on election night, unfortunately. So hopefully a couple of the states listed above are called for Biden on the 3rd!
I don't know if this crass of me but goddamnit so many 3rd party votes going to waste 🤦♂️
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Arizona is huge too. Pa for Biden is real.
Oh this is just party affiliations
Wouldnt they be counting what the person is registered as and not who they voted for?
That's how I felt reading that too. Honestly I find it kind of suspicious not gonna lie lol.
All good, that is just the party the voter is registered with.
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Yes, Arizona! I knew I forgot one. If AZ is called on Election Day for Biden .....oh baby
Just got my mail in ballot today. My wife hasn't received hers yet but hopefully she gets it tomorrow or Friday.
We're not taking chances with the mail and will drop it off at a ballot box over the weekend. I feel kind of relieved now that I don't have to go vote in person in case the wait times ended up being very very long lol.
Another thing is that I'm moving by the end of this month. My current district is purple but trending blue while my new home is solid red. Not likely at all but it would be nice to get more of us blue bloods out here to make these R's sweat more lol.
We're not taking chances with the mail and will drop it off at a ballot box over the weekend. I feel kind of relieved now that I don't have to go vote in person in case the wait times ended up being very very long lol.
Another thing is that I'm moving by the end of this month. My current district is purple but trending blue while my new home is solid red. Not likely at all but it would be nice to get more of us blue bloods out here to make these R's sweat more lol.
So...my wife and I were filling out our mail-in ballots (Florida), finished them up and everything and...we forgot that our names are printed on the outside envelope and accidentally signed the other person's envelope. Now I don't know what to do.
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Def reach out to the local office and find out what they think you should do. You might be able to go there and get a new envelope. Man see this is why these ballots are so ridiculous so easy to trip up on something like that.
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