Multnomah County (I can't speak for the rest of Oregon) has drop off boxes for mail-in ballots, especially if you miss the deadline for USPS to deliver it. I will be dropping off my ballot and my sister's ballot at the County Election Office box, drive-thru style, tomorrow for the run-off City Council election.
I always get a personal e-mail from my township clerk saying my ballot has been received (in response to the personal e-mail I send announcing that I have mailed it). Small-town America...
Well, my paint chip eating mail carrier decided yesterday to put my mail on top of of my mailbox and threw my packages into the yard. Luckily I was able to stop the dog before he got a belly full of brasso. My county is doing drop boxes at polling locations for absentee/mail ballots, but if I'm going to the polling location anyway, ill just vote there.
The Biden team needs to get moving with some ads talking about Trump’s crony Louis DeJoy running the USPS. Don’t hold back, let people know that veterans aren’t receiving their medications on time and the delays caused by DeJoy’s actions are intended to undermine and damage vote by mail in the November election.
My latest amazon delivery via USPS took an extra 3 days (showed up late yesterday). That's never happened before. Tracking showed it sitting in a local post office for days. but yeah, it looks like trump's evil plan is working.
If my Prime orders are shipped via UPS or FedEx, they get here on the second day. If my Prime orders are shipped via USPS, five business days, minimum. On the plus side, I've gotten the next year of my Prime membership free after complaining. They give me roughly two months for each complaint.
We can start with Garamet. https://wordforge.net/index.php?posts/3267003/ asking why like I'm gonna give a weak excuse to open up for a "Well, Ackshcually..." You. https://wordforge.net/index.php?posts/3267749/ I do sincerely hope your state's system works well, but it seems like you brought it up because you have a bit of a problem with me voting in person. then we have this silly fucker. Bitch, I'm votin' for Kanye.
I was afraid this was all there was. Correcting you and/or giving you more information about mail in voting doesn’t mean I have an issue with you voting in person. It means you have said something incorrect or otherwise lacking information.
Everything's completely literal with you, isn't it? You weren't even really "correcting" me so much as saying your state has a system you like and you trust it. My state doesn't and I don't, it's as simple as that. Really, the attitude I've gotten in this thread has mostly been one of derision. Jenee and garamet trying to bait me into naming a certain demographic so she (or they, I'm sure the dog pile would have been astounding) could get that sweet endorphin high from getting to call me whatever their favorite -ist or -phobe word is. Matthunter's cute little comments were in the same vein. Got MikeH to fart into a wine glass and take a whiff deep enough to make Biden jealous. I think Tererun said something negative (i don't doubt it) when she quoted me, but after about the 3rd or 4th line of her text walls I'm usually asleep. And why? Because I don't think orange man is as bad as CNN says he is. There's way too much fucking hate on this site anymore. Too much like nu-trek, most of the posters here are bitter, arrogant, dreary, curmudgeons that think they are right to the point where any dissent isn't just wrong, but absolutely evil.
Because you looked back at the thread and only saw a few examples responding to the mail issue, with none of them as severe as I somewhat facetiously said and posted your question in an attempt to either prove me wrong or as a gotcha and I treated it as such.
No. She fills it out for me (to make sure I voted "right"), but never tells me afterward who I voted for... More seriously, I do have a minor problem with mail-in ballots in Michigan: they are not secret. It is unethical for the election workers to disclose how a person voted, but you have to check a box that says you renounce your right to a secret ballot. It didn't use to be that way. 15 or 20 years ago, you mailed in the paperwork, so they could compare your signature and mark that you had voted, with the ballot itself sealed in another envelope (included in the mailing). The idea was that once the paperwork was done, the ballot itself could then be given to those who count the votes, with no one knowing any longer who it was from. I think it was a good system. I don't know why they don't use it any more. It doesn't make a huge difference to me, though. If voting was by raised hands in a crowd, I would still vote for Biden. Though I admit that would cause quite a few of my friends and family members to think less of me. Rural Michigan is extremely conservative (including the fundamentalist Christianity and even the racism, even though it isn't as blatant as that of a white-supremacist movement, for example).
Yes, but you don't live in a country in which Trump's gestapo can have you arrested off the street without cause.
I would rate both of them at about the same level, but I stop counting at a certain point that both of them have surpassed.
SCOTUS has ruled that Rhode Island can go ahead with their vote by mail plan. The Supreme Court will not intervene in a legal fight concerning absentee ballots in Rhode Island, meaning the state's order removing a requirement that absentee ballots must be signed by two witnesses or a notary public will stand. Thursday's order is a loss for the Republican National Committee, which had asked the court to step in after lower courts ruled to uphold the new absentee ballot rules. The witness requirement was eliminated at the height of the pandemic, and applied to absentee ballots during the state's rescheduled presidential primary on June 2. The order was unsigned. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have granted the RNC's request for a stay.
What part of France is that in? Watching from inside the government, if anything he's worse than what's being reported. Biden/Harris 2020.
Wow. I want to be happy about your choice, but to think what you must have seen to make you of all people vote for the Democrats honestly frightens me.
I don't understand that. I've voted for Democrats before. I voted for Obama, for God's sake. How many times must I explain that I don't vote for the party, I vote for the policies, platform, and/or track record? That the Democrats have - for the second election in a row - chosen the worst possible candidates they could have does not alter the fact that Trump is a stuttering clusterfuck of a President and needs to be gone.
I've mentioned before that I have an acquaintance who was in charge of military intelligence operations for the Asia/Pacific region. He doesn't know any more about Trump (basically) than what's been reported in the media, but he's said that based on what he knows of how the Russians operate and Trump's ties to them that Trump is certainly "owned" by them. So, if anything, Trump is far worse than how he's portrayed in the media.
