When I first voted back in the early 1970’s I had to ask my local election board to send me an absentee ballot to my college so I could vote when I turned 18. It was the first time 18 year olds were allowed to vote before that you had to be 21 years of age to vote. They lowered the age due to the Vietnam War (18 year olds were being sent off to die)
I dont know when the law changed that these kids could register to vote on their campuses, but if you ask me we should go back to having them request absentee ballots from their home counties.
They have made it too easy for them to register and vote on these campuses and now to help foreign born students to vote, too
If we went back to having them ask for absentee ballots I bet you’d only see the ones who really motivated to vote do so.
Yes. Rather than upset anyone who wishes to vote we do this.
But the final decision on whether or not that vote counts is up to the County Election Board made up of both Republican and Dems. So we don’t tell them if their vote will be counted.
These ballots are enclosed into a sealed envelope and do not go in the regular vote bins for that reason.
I’m comfy waiting to see what happens. The good thing is the election is almost here. I suspect there will be surprises along the way.
Buckle up. Anons. It could get bumpy.
Chances are the Podesta and HRC posts about them being arrested was just to get the anons attention to follow the posts.
He was given a provisional ballot.
As a poll worker in NC I was told if anyone insists on voting we give them a provisional ballot. We write the reason they were given a provisional ballot for the Election Board to also review.
It is not a poll workers decision to accept a provisional ballot. It is the County Board of Election. We have both Democrats and Republicans on our BOE.
I was a birther so I woke up just prior to Obama getting into office. I followed all the birther news.
FWIW His BC online was already identified as fake by other professionals. Sherrif Joe Ariapio
But the IMPORTANT part to remember is it was Donald Trump who came out and said something about Obama's BC that caused them to put the fake BC online!
I am working the polls in NC.
RIght now the Republicans are leading the Dems in early voting.
What people fail to take into consideration is that most Unaffiliated Voters in NC also vote Republican (My hubby is one of them)
And there will also be a number of registered Dems here who will vote all Republican. I know of one individual in my area who came out to see Mark Robinson at a meet and greet who told me he is a registered Dem who votes all Republican and his wife is Unaffiliated and she does the same.
One voter came into the polling station when I was working the front desk on the first day of early votingand she was surprised to see she was a registered Dem. I told her it is too late to change her party affiliation, but that she could vote for whoever she wanted since it is a general election. Said she had not voted in awhile, but she was voting for Trump.
Good to hear! I was off today from working the polls here in NC since I have a bible study group I attended in the am. That didn’t stop the county Board of Elections from calling me anyway to see if I could come into help out. Apparently they are swamped again today. Early voting started last Thursday here in NC. And the lines haven’t quit.
The only thing is it’s a general election so how can they stop her from voting red all down her ballot? They can’t.
But she should aim to fix her party affiliation after this election (not able to do this now in NC) so she can vote in future primaries
Rural and relatively poor red county in the Bible Belt. There is a large population of registered Dem Black voters in the precinct I’ve always worked on Election Day.
I’m always been the only Republican and only Caucasian working at that precinct. Met one of the Black chief justices early on when I started working the early voting polls that year and she must have liked me enough to ask me to work her precinct. I’ve been working that precinct ever since.