2020 Absentee/Early Voting thread

[Inmate Trump]

If Trump wins it’ll be because he does something shady with mail-in ballots.

Like causing them to not be counted or just trashed.  He’ll go to the courts to accomplish this.  It may look like a Trump landslide because of this.

[Inmate Trump]

We're gonna get daily early voting turnout reports from Georgia, right?

Follow this site, updated daily: http://georgiavotes.com/

If these numbers are accurate, that’s a massive increase from both 2016 and 2018.

I’m assuming this is accounting for mail-in ballots received also?

[Inmate Trump]

They have the next three weeks to vote, or could have voted by mail/absentee ballot.  Nobody forced them to go in day 1 of early voting.  If they would have waited a week the wait would have been 10 minutes.

if i remember correctly, the first day of early voting in georgia was among the slowest, no?

Historically, yes.  The first day of early voting in Georgia is typically one of the slowest.

[Inmate Trump]

I'm in line for early voting in McKinney and it's an hour long wait. This is insane.

you can vote by mail, vote on election day or wait a few days... LOL

I mean, I understand the concept of your answer, but two things can happen at once. You could wait till another day to vote, sure, or vote a different way... but at the same time, there's no reason why there isn't more sites in MANY states right now to vote. One drop box in a whole county is insane. Just like in GA, there should've been more remote sites to early vote at.

It's a fundamental Republican philosophy to make it harder for people to vote.  This is why Election Day still isn't a national holiday...it's the ONLY reason they're railing against mail-in ballots...it's why there are hours long lines to vote...it's why they purge voter rolls...it's why they decrease polling sites and limit the ways in which we can cast our ballots.

They know that they're quickly losing demographics and they're grasping at whatever threads they can.

Eventually the only way they'll be able to stay in power is by outright cheating.

[Inmate Trump]

I'm in line for early voting in McKinney and it's an hour long wait. This is insane.

Is that a DEM or GOP area?

Trump won Collin county 56-39. Most of the voters in line today were super diverse and young. Usually McKinney and Frisco are pretty conservative.

Thank you for doing your part!

[Inmate Trump]

Just voted! Slightly concerned that my vote could be thrown out. Reps are suing to not allow curbside voting, which, I just did. And it was wonderful! Hope they keep it going forward. Took 10 minutes from entrance to exit.

If you've already voted, it seems odd they could throw it out...

But then again, Republicans.

[Inmate Trump]

There will be a war against VBM and a real push to not have those ballot counted.  Counting them will mean Trump loses and he’ll do whatever he can to win, even cheat.  They’ll create a court battle over it somehow.

[Inmate Trump]

Might be a dumb question, so please forgive me.

How are absentee ballots counted?  By hand or is it computerized counting somehow?

[Inmate Trump]

Might be a dumb question, so please forgive me.

How are absentee ballots counted?  By hand or is it computerized counting somehow?

Depends on how the state counts its ballots. Usually fed through a machine (like a scantron).

This is the way it's done in Georgia.  There is an article in the AJC this morning describing the process, which starts today (a change from previous years, when they couldn't start until Election Day).

https://www.ajc.com/politics/absentee-ballots-can-begin-to-be-opened-but-not-counted-in-georgia/BRBLHVUJOFHB5OEHAMZV34HPDA/

Oh, good.  Hopefully that means we’ll have a good idea who wins the state on election night.

[Inmate Trump]

More people have voted early this year already than voted early in 2016.

Logic would suggest that isn't good for Trump right?