politics

Before 2020 republicans used to dominate early voting.

So if I'm doing my math correctly, that's 49%-45% for Harris in the popular vote. And that 49% is pretty much right on where she's been polling in traditional polls. But Trump has been polling way higher than 45% recently—so if this is in any way true, he's got a much tougher path to victory ahead of him than the standard numbers suggest.

You would think that fear of potential election day fiascos would drive Trump supporters to vote early, no? It was a minor calculous in my own decision to vote early (though not a major one, even if there are election shenanigans they'd never happen where I live).

If you're in TX, polls will be open from Oct 21- Nov 1, with one final day to vote on Nov 5. Your voter registration must be approved on or before Oct 7 to vote in this election.

Polls will be open at least 9 hours the first week and at least 12 hours during the second week and final day to vote. Go early and you won't have much of a line, if there's even a line at all! We were the first state with early voting, so take advantage of it!

www.votetexas.gov has all the info you need. You can check your voter registration, find voter registration forms, see polling locations and their hours for the entire voting period, and find answers to other election questions.

This may have something to do with which states do all-mail voting:

Eight states—California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia—allow all elections to be conducted entirely by mail.

Utah is deep red, but the others are quite blue. Especially with California in there, that's a pretty good chunk of the US that votes early by default (there are same-day options in these states, but I suspect that option is often utilized due to procrastination rather than intentionally waiting until election day to vote).

In Florida, the early votes are tabulated election day morning and are reported with the first results reports from the precinct.

My state of New Hampshire doesn't allow early voting and gets to watch as all the tax revenue from legal weed goes to the states surrounding us because of Republicans.

Live Free or Die my ass lol

Democrats - particularly in low-income and minority majority areas - tend to face enormous lines at voting booths on election day. Polling stations regularly run out of ballots or have lots of broken and misconfigured machines. Polling delays can lead to legal drama around whether ballots will even be counted

Republicans, particularly those concentrated in the wealthy suburbs, rarely have these problems.

This tends to shape voter behavior over the long term.

And DeJoy is still Postmaster General. I’m sure he won’t try to fuck with and delay the carriage of completed and returned ballots just like he did in 2020. WCGW 🤦‍♂️

We see the writing on the wall. Someone(s) is(are) going to attack a voting center eventually since them attacking the certification didn't work.