I’ve been fairly impressed with how my county/district has handled it so far. I received a mailing with applications for both the primary as well as the general election. I sent them back and received a ballot for the primary in plenty of time to vote. I expect I’ll get the same for the general election. In addition to mailing the ballot, they have stated that there will be extra drop-off locations if anyone is uncertain about mail delivery as well as the option of turning in the ballot in person at a polling place. Granted I’m a registered voter, so I don’t know what the experience is like for someone who is unregistered. Hopefully it is not much more difficult.
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We dropped off my son’s vote-by-mail (or drop off) last week at the city clerk’s drop-off box, but he keeps getting applications from Lansing to vote by mail. I do too, but in my last ex-surname - even though I returned my VBM application in June. Why I’m not getting them in my first-ex-surname, which is the same as my son’s, I have no idea.
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That is certainly sub-optimal.
I did get another application, but it was from a third-party non-profit trying to encourage voting by mail. I appreciate their intent, but based on the news reports they may have created more confusion than help.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article245113905.html
Fair warning: autoplaying video.
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Of course. Republicans don’t care if potential voters catch Covid19. Let’s hope they stick to red neighborhoods. (But probably not.)
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Because who we elect is tracked in memos. Allegedly.
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(I haven’t checked the numbers, but at least it provides the sources right there…)
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They’re doing them for all 50 states. I think I’ll watch each one to see what graphix they use to illustrate the neatest thing about each one.
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I feel really hopeless this morning. The Obama-Biden administration failed to get Ginsburg and Breyer to retire when Dems had a Senate majority. And now here we are. They couldn’t even lead reasonable people to do a reasonable thing … what hope is there that a Biden-Harris admin will be able to do anything to fix things?
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I’d say roughly the same as there ever is. All we can do at the moment is hope for the best possible outcome, plan for the worst, and get enough people on board voting and pushing their representatives in the “right direction” to shift things. Pretty much the only thing we can absolutely count on immediately improving on inauguration day with a Biden win is having someone back in the Presidency who acts like an adult and doesn’t spout something provably, factually wrong every time they open their mouth.
Of course, if Biden wins and a large enough number of other elections go the same way… all bets are off.
Scare quotes because “right direction” can be viewed differently by a lot of different people… at the moment I’m personally defining it as “towards facts, equality, and fair treatment”
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I have reminded my friends to check their voter registration.
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They should have been this motivated in 2016.
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Fairfax country went 65 - 29 for Clinton with a greater turnout than 2012 and 2008. I wonder what turnout is going to look like this time.
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I think we can all agree with Joe on this:
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Joe’s starting to look like Jimmy Carter.
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Carter now or Carter then?
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fairfax county (pictured) is a bright blue population center at the northern tip of the state. It’s part of the blue wall of densely populated, reliably democratric localities in virginia. Arlington, Norfolk, Hampton etc, are all reliably democratic as well, but Fairfax is is home to the most voters.
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apropos of not much at all,
The Democrats are the Pepsi Cola of Political Parties (making the Republicans the Coca Cola)
- They are comfortably the number two and have given up trying to be number one.
- They claim to be so different from the Republicans, and the aftertaste is different, but in the end they are still Cola (Capitalist)
- When the restaurant (DNC) says all we have is Biden, most people go, “Yeah, Okay”
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