Early Voting 2018 thread of doom

[tantric superman 4,667]

5 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

He used to be a pretty good congressman.

Choked to death on Dotard's pickle.

[Biff Tannen 45,439]

According to the map, there are at least 8 places in Travis right now with waits over an hour.

[lemonlime 5,503]

3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I don't think there is a method for a fully secured, auditable voting system unless you are willing to connect the name of the voter to their ballot.  Or an ID# of the voter to their ballot.  However that creates other issues where 3rd parties could verify how someone voted.  Leads to voter intimidation or pay-for-votes.

 

Scantron.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,779]

1 minute ago, lemonlime said:

Scantron.

jesus dude, spoiler that shit. 

[High Plains Drifter 10,961]

2 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

why can't that be the guy they pretend to be scared of and shoot?

I have no doubt he did something that could be construed as "furtive".

[tantric superman 4,667]

Pretty cool African American "vote encouragement" sticker.  (I would have put exclamation pionts after both "Yo" and "Vote".

[NIUHuskies 504]

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/politics/article/West-Side-voters-find-long-lines-delays-at-early-13326781.php

 

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At 2 p.m. the Bexar County Elections Department announced there had been 16,827 votes cast so far. In 2014, there were 13,436 for the whole first day. 

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,780]

21 minutes ago, yoladu said:

some of the places have only 5 voting booths?!!!

I work in southeast Austin, near TPWD.  Looking at that map, I see exactly ZERO early voting places east of I35, between 183 and  south 45.  That's pretty bad.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,388]

By mid-day, Harris County was reporting >30K votes processed.  In 2014, the total first day was 20,215 and in 2016 it was 67K.

[tantric superman 4,667]

By mid-day, I had spent about two hours looking at social media regarding these elections. 

By the whole voting season in 2014, I had spent only one hour and twenty minutes saying "no way that orange fucktard wins".

[Hawndoh 2,378]

In and out in under ten minutes. About 30 in line but plenty of machines.

[Js1 85,009]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I don't think there is a method for a fully secured, auditable voting system unless you are willing to connect the name of the voter to their ballot.  Or an ID# of the voter to their ballot.  However that creates other issues where 3rd parties could verify how someone voted.  Leads to voter intimidation or pay-for-votes.

 

Jokes on you, Soros already pays for my vote.  Ready to turn in my "I voted" sticker for my Sorosbucks.

[Huckleberry 32,663]

Voted. Longest line I've dealt with at my early voting location. A woman in a GOP shirt tried to chat me up because I was wearing a Mammoet company shirt. Red with their logo.

I politely informed her it was a corporate logo. She had claimed she moved polling locations because she'd been harassed at another one.

[Radical Larry 28,499]

Exactly one hour at 183/Braker Randall’s. That was at 4:00. Line was longer when I left.

[mdmost 42,697]

Line out the door at the local library I drive by. It’s normally inside a little bit. Definitely 2-3 times longer than usual.

[Voldemort86 2,259]

I wonder how long the lines will persist. I was planning to early vote on Wednesday morning before lunch but don’t want to wait in line for an hour.

Edited October 22, 2018 by Voldemort86

[Celery Man 20,832]

Fiancee voted for the first time ever, at Southpark Meadows.  Said it wasn't much of a line.

[gmr548 16,427]

I typically vote at the Randalls at 183 and Breaker. I just swung by to vote and decided to come back another day because the line was almost to the end of the shopping center. I work close by so I'll go at lunch tomorrow or Wednesday when it's a little slower, but damn, it wasn't even that long on election day in 16.

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[SubliminalHorn 6,622]

Long line at Randall’s at manchac and Ben White, long day of work plus some rain made me decide to come back later

[Biff Tannen 45,439]

Yeah, I postponed as well.  May try and go at 7am tomorrow morning.  This is a great problem to have though, as long as people who were driven away by long lines come back.

[Michael Knight 12,853]

As of 3:45 p.m., 22,199 people have voted on Day 1 of #EarlyVoting in #TravCo, according to the clerk's office. That's ~62% of the first day in the 2016 election (35,999) and more than double the first day in 2014 midterm (10,252). (All in-person counts.)

[BigOrange1 6,403]

voted on my way home from work.  only had to wait about 20 minutes.  voted against every republican on the ballot and in races where they were unopposed, i left it blank.  

fuck them for what they've done the past several years.  hope this is a bloodbath.

[relapse98 634]

6 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Because you can go to any precinct you want instead of a particular one on actual voting day

Once again glad Guadalupe fixed that - you vote at any precint you want on election day.

[used2b 238]

10 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

voted on my way home from work.  only had to wait about 20 minutes.  voted against every republican on the ballot and in races where they were unopposed, i left it blank.  

fuck them for what they've done the past several years.  hope this is a bloodbath.

Ditto. Could not bring myself to even vote for the unopposed Rs.

[atomheartbevo 89,304]

8 hours ago, Jack Burton said:

Why are you voting at shitty grocery stores when you can go to a college campus and check out smokes for a half hour?

Library in Tarrytown is damn good. Lots of bored moms.  

[NowThis 931]

early voting running tallies are not announced , right? what about exit polling?

[Js1 85,009]

23 minutes ago, NowThis said:

early voting running tallies are not announced , right? what about exit polling?

Not really no. They might poll “people who voted” early as a subset of a regular poll but that’s about it 

[Anastasis 23,329]

4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Voted. Longest line I've dealt with at my early voting location. A woman in a GOP shirt tried to chat me up because I was wearing a Mammoet company shirt. Red with their logo.

I politely informed her it was a corporate logo. She had claimed she moved polling locations because she'd been harassed at another one.

Now that is quality trolling right there. 

[Guest Lobo]

Vote Kopser.  If you have a soul.  I have a number of things to say about Chip Roy. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,388]

The larger counties are reporting over 3% of the registered voters voting today.  Harris was one of the lower results at 2.70%.  These are all 2-3x greater than the 2014 numbers.  

El Paso usually has some very low turnout rates.  I believe they had less than 3k vote in day 1 in 2014.   Today?  Greater than 15k.

if some of the turnout numbers keep at this rate, i don’t know if any pollster will know what to think about it.  

[bad_teammate 13,116]

The next move for the Dems is to get all those who early voted to keep door-knocking and phone banking. Build the base, Dems.

[atomheartbevo 89,304]

11 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I know we are kind of all numb to it now, but it's pretty insane that we live in a democratic country where it is universally agreed upon that one specific political party benefits when less people vote. 

I’m expecting that the Texas GOP will work to shut down early voting after this election. I’m surprised Dannie Goeb isn’t publicly trying to lay the groundwork that early voting is bad. 

[Voldemort86 2,259]

9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’m expecting that the Texas GOP will work to shut down early voting after this election. I’m surprised Dannie Goeb isn’t publicly trying to lay the groundwork that early voting is bad. 

Straight ticket voting has already been killed as of the 2020 election. I’m not sure they can get away with killing early voting without suffering some kind of backlash. It would piss off a lot of repubs and independents too.

[Texas73 420]

Voted at the Old Quarry Library on Village Center off Far West Blvd this morning at 9. the line was about 20 people. Excited that the turnout in Texas is breaking all the records. Good news for Dems.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9,273]

Waited about 25 minutes to vote at the Randalls in CP at Cypress Creek & Lakeline. That's at least 2X as long as I've ever waited at that location. Predominantly the olds in line (it was about 3PM). Had a surreal moment when an attractive, youngish Indian lady (literal Dot and nose stud) entered the line about ten people behind me. The line snaked through the lobby area like an airport gate check. I was watching the number of eyes that bugged out & old spouses nudging one another & whispering under their breath when this lady of color arrived. I'm sure many of the knuckle draggers went back to their homes telling the story of how a busload of brown people were dropped off by Soros operatives in CP.

[Guest]

13 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Voted. Longest line I've dealt with at my early voting location. A woman in a GOP shirt tried to chat me up because I was wearing a Mammoet company shirt. Red with their logo.

I politely informed her it was a corporate logo. She had claimed she moved polling locations because she'd been harassed at another one.

should have worn this...

[Homercles 10,205]

Waited about 25 minutes to vote at the Randalls in CP at Cypress Creek & Lakeline. That's at least 2X as long as I've ever waited at that location. Predominantly the olds in line (it was about 3PM). Had a surreal moment when an attractive, youngish Indian lady (literal Dot and nose stud) entered the line about ten people behind me. The line snaked through the lobby area like an airport gate check. I was watching the number of eyes that bugged out & old spouses nudging one another & whispering under their breath when this lady of color arrived. I'm sure many of the knuckle draggers went back to their homes telling the story of how a busload of brown people were dropped off by Soros operatives in CP.

If they live here in CP then they should be used to seeing Indians. Parts of my neighborhood are predominantly of dot heritage.

As someone who works with more Indians than any other nationality, has regular conference calls with people in Bangalore/Mumbai, has an Indian best friend and spent several months there...I was confused why some of my Indian neighbors were very western-friendly while others would never even wave back.

I asked an Indian coworker and his response was another question:

Aditya: “Does grandma and grandpa live in those houses that don’t wave?”
Me: “Yep”
Aditya: “It’s another world in there dude”

I think about that a lot. I tend to get along with my Indian coworkers well because I collect Ganeshs, can crack jokes about the traffic there and interpret various head nods reasonably well...but didn’t consider that a third generation living with the family would have such a huge impact on cultural integration.

Indians are people like everyone else and one of the most diverse places/cultures/politics you’ll ever know. I’ve been all over Europe, lived in turkey for three years, spent a week in San Salvador, Penang, Bali, all over the Philippines, going to Thailand next year, along with the usual Mexico and Canada...but there is absolutely no place as varied and exotic as India.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,780]

7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’m expecting that the Texas GOP will work to shut down early voting after this election. I’m surprised Dannie Goeb isn’t publicly trying to lay the groundwork that early voting is bad. 

His radio ads advocate straight ticket Republican voting.  Don't think, just do what I say.

[bernorange 8,345]

4 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

His radio ads advocate straight ticket Republican voting.  Don't think, just do what I say.

I've seen several Surly peeps advocate the same action for the Dems in various threads.  I even responded to one saying that straight ticket voting is lazy and dumb.  The drumbeats of the tribes are quite loud right now.

[Js1 85,009]

[GopherRock 1,765]

Is this thread limited to Texas early voting?

 

Early voting opened last Wednesday in Tennessee, and as of the close of business on Saturday, nearly 400K ballots had been cast, which is only slightly below a presidential election and destroys their previous midterm mark. 

[Chuckie Finster 22,571]

Not going to bump the "say something good about the Trump presidency" thread, but I do think he is directly responsible (on both sides) for the apparent increased voter turnout.  More voters is a good thing, even if our country is full of idiots.

Edited October 23, 2018 by Chuckie Finster

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,355]

First day of early voting in Louisiana today starts in 10 minutes.

At my early voting location and there are four people at the door plus some people waiting in their cars in the parking lot.  It is also raining.

[horncyclist 1,384]

Schumer no offered a deal for his wall. The truth is they don't give a shit about immigration. Probably like it cause of cheap labor. They just want to use it as an issue to scare people and gain power.

[Chad Fuck 17,455]

If they live here in CP then they should be used to seeing Indians. Parts of my neighborhood are predominantly of dot heritage.

As someone who works with more Indians than any other nationality, has regular conference calls with people in Bangalore/Mumbai, has an Indian best friend and spent several months there...I was confused why some of my Indian neighbors were very western-friendly while others would never even wave back.

I asked an Indian coworker and his response was another question:

Aditya: “Does grandma and grandpa live in those houses that don’t wave?”
Me: “Yep”
Aditya: “It’s another world in there dude”

I think about that a lot. I tend to get along with my Indian coworkers well because I collect Ganeshs, can crack jokes about the traffic there and interpret various head nods reasonably well...but didn’t consider that a third generation living with the family would have such a huge impact on cultural integration.

Indians are people like everyone else and one of the most diverse places/cultures/politics you’ll ever know. I’ve been all over Europe, lived in turkey for three years, spent a week in San Salvador, Penang, Bali, all over the Philippines, going to Thailand next year, along with the usual Mexico and Canada...but there is absolutely no place as varied and exotic as India.

Don’t pick up the sitar George, or we will lose you completely.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,355]

And I’m done. 

[Js1 85,009]

Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

And I’m done. 

Does anyone even give a shit in Louisiana?  No Senate race and no statewide races due to off-year elections in 2019.

[Jiggy-Z 3,427]

14 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Long line at Randall’s at manchac and Ben White, long day of work plus some rain made me decide to come back later

Went there this morning. Had to use the men's room, but cops and ems had a guy in the restroom area common hallway on a stretcher.  They were not using the restrooms but still would not let me take care of business.  ended up using employee restroom.  Cop was pretty short with me. they could have easily blocked the common area hallway and not has any trouble.  Cops.  I guess I should be thankful I am still alive, but then again I am white and look like a construction guy so the odds were in my favor.

Report from the field.

Anyway, got in line and monitored my progress for 15-20 min and figured it would be 1:15 wait.  Plus guy in front of me smelled funny, so I left to try another time.

[Js1 85,009]

Why were the cops and EMS there?  Standard in case a minority tries to vote and has to be shot on sight?

[Jiggy-Z 3,427]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Why were the cops and EMS there?  Standard in case a minority tries to vote and has to be shot on sight?

Not 100%  sure but looked like an old black guy, possibly homeless.  They were gone by the time I got back from the employee restroom. (about 5 min later).

Line was culturally diverse with a lean towards older.

If I had to guess using my Sherlock Holmes powers i would say, homeless guy was hanging out under the overhang to get out of the rain and was still high/drunk and a slight danger to himself and others. Nothing to see here. Its south Austin.