To the American Bluemooners, have you registered to vote yet?

[Shiver]

Fivethirtyeight has a good per-state breakdown of the process and deadlines for getting ready to vote!

How To Vote In The 2020 Election

A guide to in person and mail in voting, and voter registration deadlines, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com

 

[catloverjerrygarcia]

Yes I have, requested a mail ballot, received it on the 5th mailed it out the next day.

 

[Tinkerer Nadia]

Don't disinfect your ballots it will Invalidate it

 

[Nihilistic_Impact]

I went and voted early in person, was maybe seven people in the building total while I voted.

 

[bodman54]

Voted early in person. Only a few people in front of me so there was no line and no wait

 

[lasciel]

I've requested my mail-in ballot and am still waiting. But I'm also in a "less than 1% chance of this state flipping" territory and my down-ballot choices are either unopposed or also less than 1% chance of flipping so it's not as anxiety-inducing. I think I can pick up a mail-in IRL if I don't get one soon. Or something like that.

 

[Virginia Greene]

My state does mail in voting (and has for years) and my family sat down and did our voting last night then dropped our ballots off today!

 

[Xanaphia]

Voted this past week. Exciting to be in one of the handful of states that actually determines the election.

 

[Shiver]

Voted this past week. Exciting to be in one of the handful of states that actually determines the election.

Ooh, that is exciting! Swing away!

 

[lasciel]

I got my sticker! I GOT THE DAMNED STICKER UPON WHICH OUR DEMOCRACY IS BUILT.

 

[Gudao Master of Gacha]

I got my sticker! I GOT THE DAMNED STICKER UPON WHICH OUR DEMOCRACY IS BUILT.

Huzzah! The best sticker one can ever hope to get! I submitted my ballot in the mail a few days ago!

 

[catloverjerrygarcia]

I checked the status of my mailed ballot online a couple days ago. It was received by the appropriate person/s on the 8th of this month.

 

[Blazorna]

I'm not voting. Not a fan of either. I'd vote for a chimpanzee if one was LEGIT running.

 

[Shiver]

I'm not voting. Not a fan of either. I'd vote for a chimpanzee if one was LEGIT running.

I find this very disheartening, and hope you reconsider. A vote isn't a pledge of unconditional support or total agreement. It's how you steer government policy, which impacts millions of lives. Given the huge issues that exist at the moment, I find it hard to believe that you don't have a preference for which direction things go. Voting shouldn't be something you do only when your ideal candidate comes along.

Just my two cents.

 

[Blazorna]

I find this very disheartening, and hope you reconsider. A vote isn't a pledge of unconditional support or total agreement. It's how you steer government policy, which impacts millions of lives. Given the huge issues that exist at the moment, I find it hard to believe that you don't have a preference for which direction things go. Voting shouldn't be something you do only when your ideal candidate comes along.

Just my two cents.

I understand your feelings there, but the 2016 elections proved my vote really doesn't matter. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote yet that human tangerine won.

 

[bodman54]

I find this very disheartening, and hope you reconsider. A vote isn't a pledge of unconditional support or total agreement. It's how you steer government policy, which impacts millions of lives. Given the huge issues that exist at the moment, I find it hard to believe that you don't have a preference for which direction things go. Voting shouldn't be something you do only when your ideal candidate comes along.

Just my two cents.

I agree. I am far from a fan of Biden but I love my civil liberties and the idea of actual equality and hope for the future. It may be a bit hyperbolic but considering who is about to get confirmed to the Supreme Court the novel The Handmaiden's Tale doesn't look that dystopian. But if Biden does win we have to continue to pressure him to make real changes

 

[Shiver]

I understand your feelings there, but the 2016 elections proved my vote really doesn't matter. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote yet that human tangerine won.

It matters as much as any other vote. The EC is definitely goofy and can generate some frustrating results. But to jump from there to total apathy? When the stakes are so high?

There's just no reason to go from "the system and candidates are flawed" to "I refuse to do what I can to help." Low turnout is the single biggest reason the "tangerine" won. His base is going to show up at the polls again, you can be sure of that.

I agree. I am far from a fan of Biden but I love my civil liberties and the idea of actual equality and hope for the future. It may be a bit hyperbolic but considering who is about to get confirmed to the Supreme Court the novel The Handmaiden's Tale doesn't look that dystopian. But if Biden does win we have to continue to pressure him to make real changes

Hear hear.

 

[catloverjerrygarcia]

As a navy vet friend of mine said, "I'd rather shoot myself in the leg and hobble around for four more years than shoot myself in the head and end it all."

 

[Jericho Z. Barrons]

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, those who don't vote because they thought they couldn't affect change. I have too much invested, too much at stake not to make the attempt. As LGBT, I represent others like me. I owe it to them as much as myself to add my number to their voice.

 

[Pink.]

I got my sticker! I GOT THE DAMNED STICKER UPON WHICH OUR DEMOCRACY IS BUILT.

My state votes by mail, I don't get any stickers!

 

[bodman54]

I think I read somewhere that he won by 725k votes combined in WI, PA, and OH. So it's not like it was inevitable. How many people voted for him as a joke and only did so because they thought their vote didn't matter

 

[Shiver]

My state votes by mail, I don't get any stickers!

Here you go

 

[Pink.]

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, those who don't vote because they thought they couldn't affect change. I have too much invested, too much at stake not to make the attempt. As LGBT, I represent others like me. I owe it to them as much as myself to add my number to their voice.

 

[Pink.]

Here you go

Gasp! Thank you

 

[bodman54]

I voted for my LGBTQ+ friends. For my sisters. For my black friends. I know as a 27-year-old white male I'm lucky but I'll be damned before I stop fighting making sure everyone is as lucky as I am.