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In reply to the discussion: Check-in if you've already voted. [View all]progree
(11,449 posts)I applied for my primary and general election ballots online at the Minnesota Secretary of State's website long ago. (NOT FROM THE FUCKHEADS AT THE CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION - THEY KEEP MAILING SHIT TO ME THOUGH I LONG AGO TWICE FOLLOWED THE UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THEIR LETTERS. THAT'S WHY I THINK THEY ARE FUCKHEADS AND LITERAL ASSWIPES -- MY VIEW OF EVERYONE THAT PUTS ME THROUGH THE PROCESS OF UNSUBSCRIBING AND THEN IGNORING IT, I'M STILL GETTING SHIT FROM THEM NEARLY A MONTH AFTER MY TWO UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT I HATE THEM, THEN WELL, LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU DIE. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/10/26/pro-publica-nonprofit-sending-confusing-ballot-applications ).
Mailed in my primary ballot through U.S.P.S. (wasn't worried about ballot-delay shenanigans for the primary election)
For the general election, I sat on the ballot for weeks. Was hoping Golden Valley, MN would set up a drop box, but never did. I didn't want to mail it ...
so, though mad as hell that I'd have to go in-person and interact with people to apply for a new ballot and then vote it (though I had done that at home long ago), I went to my early voting location at Golden Valley City Hall to at least check it out.
I brought my ballot that I had gotten in the mail, duly filled out and voted, enclosed in the privacy envelope which was enclosed in the signature envelope (filled out of course), which was enclosed in the mailing envelope -- so that it was ready to drop in the mail if I chose to do so except for sealing the envelopes.
Wednesday around 1230p Oct 21 at Golden Valley City Hall -- not another soul there, besides the friendly lady at the desk in the voting area (masked, and with plexiglass from countertop to ceiling). Decided I wasn't going to get Covid there.
No problem with using my ballot that I had gotten in the mail. She gave me back the mailing envelope as she doesn't need. She sealed the signature envelope with a sponge-tipped liquid applier stick. (No problem that the ballot privacy envelope wasn't sealed, she said - she never looked at the ballot, BTW).
About 3 or 4 days later it was shown as "accepted and will be counted" or some such words at the MN SOS website (I have to key in some identifying information).