Electoral College
You're not voting for President and Vice President, you're voting for a slate of Electors chosen by the different presidential campaigns. Once that slate is chosen via the election, they almost always vote for the President and Vice President with their electoral votes, and some states require them to vote that way by law (see faithless Electors). But they are technically free to vote for whomever they want.
In a scenario where a Vice Presidential candidate drops out, and the campaign supports that dropout, they will likely issue new instructions for whom their slates of Electors should vote.
I think you're conflating 2 things. One is the existence of the bond, and the other is the mismanagement of it.
The way this is supposed to work is that your municipality wants some expensive things, like new utility infrastructure, roads, bridges, whatever. If they have the funds in their Treasury, they can pay for it that way, or they can issue a bond and saddle future residents with the debt. It's actually preferable, and more fair, to issue the bond, because the Treasury is made up of the tax money people paid in the past whereas the bond is tax money people pay in the future. People in the past may move away and never get a chance to use the thing that was built, but future residents will use the thing AND as you've pointed out, they can see the bond before moving there, so there is a form of consent.
Now mismanagement is awful, but a separate issue. If the municipality got too much bond money and then used it for something else, that's bad and likely criminal.
No problem doing that. If you did go to the post office you can buy the "additional ounce" stamp for much less. But we're really only talking about a difference of 50¢ or so.
I still bring mail ballots to the post office so I can see them put that postmark on it.
But to each their own
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The post office will often still deliver election mail even with insufficient postage. In fact, if it gets too close to election day, they'll even overnight election mail.
If you're voting by mail, 1) ask for a post mark from the clerk, and 2) mail your ballot well in advance of election day to give sufficient time for delivery.
https://about.usps.com/what/government-services/election-mail/
Simpler Explanation:
This is the month before the election. All of the House and 1/3 of the Senate is up for election. Maybe they're spending that time campaigning?
Congress cannot pass anything with the entire House and 1/3 of the Senate absent.
This happens every 2 years
Every 2 years, the entire House is up for election, and 1/3 of the Senate is up for election.
Since there are 100 Senators, and 100 is not evenly divisible by 3, every 6 years there are 34 Senate seats up for election rather than 33.
The number of Senate seats up for election might vary a little bit if a Senator doesn't finish their term (because they retire, get elected to a different Federal office, die, etc.)
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All of this information is also available at https://vote.gov/
Virginia allows 16 year olds to pre-register to vote. They cannot vote in a general election until they turn 18. They can vote in primary elections if they will be 18 by election day.
Pre-registration basically just allows them to be registered to vote as soon as they are legally allowed to do so.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title24.2/chapter4/section24.2-403.1/
Good point. I have seen ballot marking devices, but only for people who have a disability that would make it difficult to use pen & paper.
Those ballots still get fed into the ballot scanner though.