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early voting stats
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10/22/26 08:50 PM
10/22/26 08:50 PM
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charles
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I recently read that the ratio of Dem to Rep utilizing early voting is often as high as 5:1. Why?
Seems like a voter would prefer to vote on a day when it is most convenient, the lines are shorter, and he doesn't have to take time away from work. In my city, an early voter can vote at any voting location. On election day, we have to vote at our assigned location, regardless of the line and delays.
Does early voting or a larger turnout favor either party?
Please share your ideas.
Last edited by charles; 10/22/26 08:52 PM.
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/22/26 09:21 PM
10/22/26 09:21 PM
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The democrats push early voting and mail in voting. Trump has raged against mail in voting. The other republican politicians cringe because a vote banked early is a vote no longer vulnerable to bad weathor or life's complications on election day.
Trump votes by mail himself, then he rages about how terrible voting my mail is because it stirs up some of his supporters.
My wife and I have voted by mail for years. It is great for the less prominate races & ballot questions because we can sit and home and research whatever we want before filling out the ballot. Back when we voted in person there would often be an obscure race we weren't aware of, that took us by surprise in the voting booth.
-Joe
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/22/26 09:26 PM
10/22/26 09:26 PM
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charles
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When I voted yesterday, there was a sign that gave the address of the next closest voting location in case the line was too long.
Since you mentioned it, I remember voting in another county about ten years ago, and early voting was only at the main office.
Yesterday I only had to wait about a minute, and there were at least a dozen election employees in the library to direct traffic and validate the voters. Everyone had to show their driver's license. When I handed the lady my license, she found me in the registration printout, compared my face to my photo, and asked me to spell my last name. There were about a dozen machines, and outside in the handicapped parking slots, there were two remote machines so a disabled voter didn't have to get out of their car.
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/23/26 12:05 AM
10/23/26 12:05 AM
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Maybe the polls are taken in more urban areas.
Keep your boots dry.
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/23/26 06:26 AM
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I saw that T votes by mail and thought boy that's gonna kink
the tin foil hat. Probably ok now.
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/23/26 09:12 AM
10/23/26 09:12 AM
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I vote early because the regular voting day occurs during trapping season.
It seems to me early voting, at least here in MN, favors democrats. But it might also suggest people don’t like standing in long lines.
Last edited by Teacher; 10/23/26 09:17 AM. Reason: Clarification
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/23/26 09:25 AM
10/23/26 09:25 AM
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When my Bride got real bad with her MS she started using absentee ballots. The rural twp hall where we voted is less than a half mile up the road, so I just drive up and vote in person. I can honestly not remember if I ever used an absentee ballot. Its sorta a game to see if I can be the first to cast a vote on election day. I have pulled it off before, but there are lots of old retirees in my twp and most are early risers. Lots of Dems too on account of 90 % of them live along the lake in what used to be their cabin/cottage before they took their UAW retirement from downstate auto plants. We don't always see eye to eye on things politically, but most all these folks know the value of a buck and were hard workers.
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/23/26 09:31 AM
10/23/26 09:31 AM
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Hopefully, there is a strong verification method on the receiving end.
My wife and I stayed at an extended-stay hotel in Denver about 10 years ago, when our last grandchild was due. There was a bank of mailboxes in the lobby and dozens of ballots on the floor and in the trash. I asked my daughter, and she said the verification is done at the election center. Heck, I could have voted a dozen times, and I didn't even live in the state.
Let's hope there are some tight controls.
Sadly, there are none. The only security built into vote by mail is a signature match, and that is routinely ignored. In AZ in 2022, they counted untold numbers of ballots with no signature at all. No signature match on front end when registering, and none on back end when vote by mail ballot is returned to be counted. Once a name is in the system, it is in. And state will mail a live ballot to that name at that address.........real person or not.......real address or not. It will go out. So in situation above, what would prevent party operatives from rolling in to collect all those ballots? Nothing.......so they could go from hotel to hotel, apartment complex to complex, all over town where these ballots accumulate........and grab them all up. The reason they mail all those ballots out a month ahead of time is because once you harvest all those live ballots, it takes a lot of time for a small group of party operatives to open them all, vote them all and bundle them in stacks as needed to be dumped into the system at last minute. Some places accept ballots as late as 5 days after election is over and results are known. CA flipped two House seats from red to blue in 2024, still finding and counting ballots for 28 days after the election was over. The Democrat finally pulled ahead by a few hundred votes and they called it. Just out today.......SCOTUS ruled you could not use a student ID as valid ID to show at a polling place. That is when voting in person. Again, with vote by mail, no ID needed on either end. Vote by mail is as corrupt of an election scam as has ever by devised by man.
Easy to vote your way into socialism, but impossible to vote your way out of it.
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: charles]
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10/23/26 08:54 PM
10/23/26 08:54 PM
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Where I live we had local voting locations, that were small and easy to get in and out of.
That has changed all local voting places are now at one place, plus they added another township to it.
My health won't allow me to walk that far as the parking is much larger, and the lines will be so much longer.
Early voting is the best bet for me.
So much BS about each candite that it's hard to believe in any of them.
Voting pure red, because I trust the party more than the others.
We have met the enemy and the enemy is us!
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Re: early voting stats
[Re: HayDay]
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10/23/26 08:57 PM
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Hopefully, there is a strong verification method on the receiving end.
My wife and I stayed at an extended-stay hotel in Denver about 10 years ago, when our last grandchild was due. There was a bank of mailboxes in the lobby and dozens of ballots on the floor and in the trash. I asked my daughter, and she said the verification is done at the election center. Heck, I could have voted a dozen times, and I didn't even live in the state.
Let's hope there are some tight controls.
Sadly, there are none. The only security built into vote by mail is a signature match, and that is routinely ignored. In AZ in 2022, they counted untold numbers of ballots with no signature at all. No signature match on front end when registering, and none on back end when vote by mail ballot is returned to be counted. Once a name is in the system, it is in. And state will mail a live ballot to that name at that address.........real person or not.......real address or not. It will go out. So in situation above, what would prevent party operatives from rolling in to collect all those ballots? Nothing.......so they could go from hotel to hotel, apartment complex to complex, all over town where these ballots accumulate........and grab them all up. The reason they mail all those ballots out a month ahead of time is because once you harvest all those live ballots, it takes a lot of time for a small group of party operatives to open them all, vote them all and bundle them in stacks as needed to be dumped into the system at last minute. Some places accept ballots as late as 5 days after election is over and results are known. CA flipped two House seats from red to blue in 2024, still finding and counting ballots for 28 days after the election was over. The Democrat finally pulled ahead by a few hundred votes and they called it. Just out today.......SCOTUS ruled you could not use a student ID as valid ID to show at a polling place. That is when voting in person. Again, with vote by mail, no ID needed on either end. Vote by mail is as corrupt of an election scam as has ever by devised by man. Not so true in Ohio, you need to send in a fax or picture of your government ID before they will send you a mail in ballot!
We have met the enemy and the enemy is us!
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