Question

[trublu992]

Why do you think people don't early vote more than waiting until election day.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Have you seen the lines at early voting sites?

There are always fewer polling places for early voters....Election day is just traditional for many people.

[trublu992]

4. You're Right

I didn't put that into perspective and early voting is new.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. For me ...

for purely selfish reasons. I enjoy nthe feeling of walking into the polling place, mon election day, in my very red precinct ... just to look in the face of thye poll workers, who know exactly how I'm gonna vote.

Oh ... did I mention my tradition of wearing my "Yes I Am A Black Man ... No I'm Not A Criminal" tee shirt?

[trublu992]

5. That's bold

I live in a red district and during early voting I was thinking what the hell are you people thinking

[OriginalGeek]

3. I'd say lack of information

this year was the first time I have voted early and it's because this year was the first I knew I could.

I freely admit that's my fault - I wasn't on DU the last go around and all I knew about non-day-of-election-voting athe polling place was absentee ballots and I thought those were only for people who knew they would be away from their homes on voting day or for military people. I had no idea that anyone could mail in a ballot and I never heard anything bout voting early - at least, if I did, it didn;t register because I probably conflated early voting with absentee ballots in my head and I already didn't think I could do that.

I can tell ya this though - I will be early voting from here on out!

[JoePhilly]

6. Early voting is relatively new, and its use is growing every election.

When a state adopts early voting, initially, lots of people don't even know.

Then they learn it is possible, but they don't know where to go or how to find out where to go. They are family with the regular polling place, but don't know the early sites.

But once someone finds out how and where to vote early, that's all it takes.

Here in NC, I voted on one of the first early voting dates ... waited about 30 minutes.

A week later, my wife and son voted at the same location, walked right in, took them about 10 minutes.

Saturday was NC's last early voting day ... huge crowds at the same location.

Its new. You have to work it in to your schedule. But as people figure it out, they do it over and over.

[MissMarple]

7. Everyone in my house has voted.

We have mail in elections here at the local level. And a lot of people opted for all mail in ballots. And Dems have a big GOTV effort here for state and national elections. We can't win the county, but we can help win the state.