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In reply to the discussion: Check-in if you've already voted. [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)We had requested mail-in ballots but then got lazy and and then decided to go to the early voting location near our house. About 10 people in line ahead of us but it went pretty quickly. They asked about our mail-in ballots and we told them we changed our mind and wanted to vote in person and they said just be sure to destroy the mail-in ballots when we got home.
Easy as pie! Which is a saying I don't understand - is it easy as making pie? or eating it? I can eat pie like a champ but making it is another kettle of cats.
Funny story while were in line: The mail-in ballot drop-off box was up by the entrance with a poll-worker monitoring it. A guy comes up and asks to speak to the poll worker and they huddle up. Then the poll worker calls for a Library worker (we were at a public library). Finally they stopped being quiet and we could hear them plainly - the man, wanting to give his young son a taste of civic duty, had sent his son up to drop their mail-in ballots in the collection box. But apparently he got a little confused and dropped them into the library book return box. So they needed the Library staff to come open it and get the ballots out. Everything worked out and the ballots got put in the right box. And they put a sign up on the book drop lol.
It wasn't a completely unreasonable mistake - there were a lot of boxes to drop stuff in and they don't look ALL that different but they were just far enough apart that poll-workers might not have seen the kid going to the wrong one..
Another nice thing was the county Democratic party had people there (at the prescribed distance) handing out voting guides which came in handy for those local city council races. They were busy and getting a lot of traffic while the lonely trump flag waver across the driveway from them sat bored. Good. Hope her ass hurts from all that sitting.