Originally Posted by Cobullymom (Post 2154386)

I know a couple who has lived out of the country for 28 years in the EU and works as contractors for military, and they say quote "they would rather stay there when then retire, than come back" and they sadly get to vote. When other than receiving government funds they do not participate in American life. I find it very sad and un American.

Originally Posted by GpaVader (Post 2154419)

Sorry but if you make it a holiday, who will work. If someone is disabled and needs assistance, do they get the day off? You will always have exceptions and voting early helps to disperse the lines. Believe it or not some people still work, and having this flexibility really helps.

I understand the need or desire to vote by mail, but I always like the analogy of how much do you trust the USPS? Would you put a $100 bill in the mail and mail it to yourself?

Originally Posted by socrafty (Post 2154399)

Not having early voting could of knocked me out of voting altogether this year. I need to have surgery and they were trying to get me in next week. He does surgery on Tuesdays and Fridays and I wouldn't have had a choice of day. If they scheduled it on Tuesday, I would not have been able to vote. Knowing this, I was able to go in early this week and cast my vote. Turns out it was a none issue, but I would have been very disappointed if my vote wasn't counted. I appreciate the early voting and honestly rather do that then mail it in. At least I know they received it.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 2154193)

It seems to me that all of this early voting and voting by mail has done nothing but cause problems.

Even if there haas been on impropriety, the impression that there has been has upset a lot of people.

I understand that it gives more people the opportunity to vote but I think that a better solution would be to hold election over one weekend. Twelve hours on Saturday and twelve hours on Sunday. If you can't fit that into your schedule, you just don't care enough.

There would have to be mail in ballots for people that are out of the country or away from their homes but those should have to be applied for and should be a minimal amount.

Originally Posted by Tvflguy (Post 2154107)

Did you vote?

Originally Posted by Tvflguy (Post 2154107)

Did you vote?

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2154320)

I agree with the above post. I plan on voting next Tuesday, on Election Day, when people have voted forever and should only be allowed to vote unless they have extreme extenuating circumstances. What’s up with this BS of having voting starting weeks before the election, it opens up a can of rancid worms.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2154314)

I voted yesterday. It was well organized, no one outside shoving signs in our faces on our way in. Only one minor criticism, was the pair of official observers. One of them was kinda lurking directly behind one voter while I was coming in, and the other one tried lurking directly behind me right after I sat down and started filling in the vote circles. I stopped, put that plastic card over my ballot, and just stared at her, waiting, until she finally walked away.

My vote is my business, no one else's unless I choose to share it with someone else.[/QUOTE

I had been seeing those lurkers in Arizona and wondered what reaction I would have to something like that, well I think I would take their photo with my phone and if they challenged me I would tell them that they are stalking me and I need a hoto of them for the police. We need to be proactive in the face of this invasion of our privacy..