My fellow USAians...

[nialla42]

If you haven't already, vote. Even if you feel surrounded by those who will negate your vote, vote anyway. Your voice is just as important, and if everyone who felt their vote wouldn't count did vote, things might go a bit differently.

If you're female, keep in mind women in the US have had the right to vote for less than 100 years. Keep in mind the

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[tx_cronopio]

I early voted!

Now I'm just so so so ready for it to be over...

[nialla42]

You and me both. My remote control is getting a workout changing the channels a soon as a political ad comes on. And I'm getting a double whammy because I'm in an area that gets both Texas and Oklahoma ads.

I'm going to vote tomorrow, but we'll be running the library the same hours as the poll. Lucky me, I get to open at 7 a.m., so when I get off work I'll trek over to the tiny town in which I have no other ties except it's my polling station.

[mindyfromohio]

You can tell everyone that if they don't vote, I will show up at their house and sing "Sister Suffragette" -- my singing may possibly be classified under UN torture regulations.

[nialla42]

I had 11 years of music class in public school, mostly choral music, yet I'm pretty sure my singing voice also qualifies as torture.

[superbadgirl]

I'm in a pickle. I have no voter registration here, though I did register. I suspect it was not enough time to turn it around, knowing government systems and offices. So, no info here (mail ballots), but I DID get a ballot from my former state of residence.

I have no idea if I can vote with that, or if I'm SOL.

[kaleecat]

The reg deadline in OR was 10/16 according to the info I found. Maybe this site will hwelp:
http://www.headcount.org/verify-voter-registration/

[superbadgirl]

Yeah, it doesn't help that much. It confirms that I'm registered and that a ballot will be mailed for the next election. Since that's tomorrow, I'm thinking I'm in Nowheresville.

[kaleecat]

Huh -- pretty useless without a polling location. Maybe show up at the closest polling and see if they list you?? Government websites, never quite useful enough. :(

[kaleecat]

I of course live in a state with no early voting -- most of the time I feel lucky they even bother to let us woman folk vote around here.

My mother has been gloating that they voted last week, but then FL's ballot is 8 pages!!

Luckily I'm off tomorrow and my voting precinct happens to be basically right across the street. I'll actually have to walk down to the light to see if the line is out the door though. A hardship I'm sure. ;-)

[captain_tiv]

Ours was only 4 pages. Presidential election, local elections and choosing whether or not to change two amendments to the state constitution.

Next year, we'll probably be voting online.

[nialla42]

My county's ballot is about two pages. No large cities and massive poverty doesn't mean many local initiatives on the ballot.

I normally vote in the morning before going to work, but for Presidential elections, we have the library open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. just like the polls (the one for the city were I work is in the same building), and I have the first shift. If all goes well, I'll get off at 3 p.m. and then have to drive about 20 minutes to get to my polling station.

It's in the usual town, but they've changed location. I've voted there before and it's horrid. Teeny place in which everyone has to line up down a hallway to vote two at a time. And then you've got to get out the same way you came. I have no idea why they moved it there again, though I guess it's because the usual place is a school and they're probably concerned about the higher turnout for a Presidential election.

[kaleecat]

Ours was a pretty slim ballot, no initiatives which is unusual.

Ugh on the teeny tiny place to vote. reminds me of my voting precinct where I lived in north GA. It was in a nursing home & we were lined up all down their residence hallways, then had to go back the same way. It was a mess & I felt sorry for the residents.

Hope you made it over there just fine.

[captain_tiv]

I early voted too. :)

The day the early voting started, the polls opened at 7:00 a.m. I got there at 6:55 a.m., and there was already a line out the door.

[nialla42]

I'm really wondering what it's going to be like in areas still affected by storm damage. Even if there was early voting, the last week of it was disrupted, and some places still have transport issues, so will the lines be longer or shorter as a result?