Early voting trickle quickly becoming a torrent

[NellyLunatic1980]

Whether a person who votes early but dies before Election Day would have his/her vote counted is up to each individual state, I believe.

Personally, I think the law should be if you voted according to state regs, your vote should count no matter what.

How is dying after early voting any different than dying after voting on Election Day? Many people who voted will die between Election Day and when the electors actually assemble to vote for President.

The point is, you were alive (hopefully!) when you voted.

Unless you live in New York, Florida, or Chicago, where dead people vote all the time.

[elwoodblues]

We have early voting in Texas and I will vote Saturday, which is the day of the week elections should be held anyway.

The reason elections are on Tuesday is that in the early days of the country many people had to travel for a day to vote, and they preferred to start the trip on a Monday after going to church on Sunday. But today, voting on Tuesday means either waiting in a long line before work or waiting in a long line after work.

So as a country we are still doing something that became illogical long ago, sort of like watching Saturday Night Live.

[Bob Juch]

Ken Jenning's blog today says he just voted early - for Obama.

[Jeemie]

Ken Jenning's blog today says he just voted early - for Obama.

Just goes to show you that a head full of trivia doesn't make one intelligent!

[silverscreenselect]

We have early voting in Texas and I will vote Saturday, which is the day of the week elections should be held anyway.

Saturday elections would exclude a couple of significant voter demographics:

Jews, Seventh Day Adventists and others who consider the Saturday the Sabbath and a holy day.

College football fans who consider Saturday an even holier day.

[Bob78164]

Ken Jenning's blog today says he just voted early - for Obama.

Just goes to show you that a head full of trivia doesn't make one intelligent!

I could have told you that without leaving this Bored. --Bob

[WheresFanny]

We have early voting in Texas and I will vote Saturday, which is the day of the week elections should be held anyway.

The reason elections are on Tuesday is that in the early days of the country many people had to travel for a day to vote, and they preferred to start the trip on a Monday after going to church on Sunday. But today, voting on Tuesday means either waiting in a long line before work or waiting in a long line after work.

So as a country we are still doing something that became illogical long ago, sort of like watching Saturday Night Live.

The logical day of the week for elections to be held is Sunday. Postal workers would like to vote too, you know!

[WheresFanny]

We have early voting in Texas and I will vote Saturday, which is the day of the week elections should be held anyway.

Saturday elections would exclude a couple of significant voter demographics:

Jews, Seventh Day Adventists and others who consider the Saturday the Sabbath and a holy day.

College football fans who consider Saturday an even holier day.

I think my first experience with Judaism was back when I was a kid and my dad had a motor route for the newspaper. On Friday & Saturday nights (or Saturday/Sunday mornings) us kids would go along and stuff inserts and run papers up that had to be porched. Some people got Sunday only, some got just the weekends, but there was one customer that got every day except Saturday.

We'd also go help on collection day. Yes, back when you'd go up to people's doors, get your three bucks and write them a receipt on a little stub. We would split up the book and get done faster. Collection day was also a Saturday and the customers that didn't get the paper on Saturday also wouldn't answer the door, so they'd leave a little envelope with the money stuck in the screen door.

[silverscreenselect]

We'd also go help on collection day. Yes, back when you'd go up to people's doors, get your three bucks and write them a receipt on a little stub. We would split up the book and get done faster. Collection day was also a Saturday and the customers that didn't get the paper on Saturday also wouldn't answer the door, so they'd leave a little envelope with the money stuck in the screen door.

I don't think there's many people leaving money in an envelope outside their front doors anymore....

[SportsFan68]

I'm guessing that Colorado will soon join Oregon as mail-in only.

I find myself in agreement with a local conservative on this one, or what his position used to be anyway: His contention was that all-mail ballots lead to harvesting by opportunists. Close races could be decided not by the better candidate or hardest-working campaign, but by who the smartest thieves were.

Currently, you have to sign up for mail-in ballots. With all-mail, hundreds of ballots, or even thousands statewide, can be delivered to apartments where the voters don't live there anymore.

However, most Colorado County Clerks, and for all I know, all of them, support all-mail balloting.