awesome, i am a former GA resident, now in PA. i don't think we're doing early voting. i wonder if there are any stories of ppl being denied vote due to too long of a queue...
good to know. to me it just seems possible that queues could be so long as to take a day to finish (apparently a 12-hour wait has been documented), so if we're talking election night then is it feasible to delay publishing of counts? seems unlikely but was just wondering what would happen in that case.
You can technically vote early in PA, but it's an in person absentee ballot. You apply for the ballot at the elections office and complete it at the same time. Look into dates and times for your area.
I'm in Southwest PA and saw some fuckery in 16' voting for GEOTUS. it wasn't anything super crazy, but I was able to report my issue to the campaign via their website, and they responded within literal minutes...on election day. So if you see or hear of anything, report that shit.
I'm seeing stories of 11-12 hours yesterday in some other parts of metro-Atlanta. Some blame the holiday yesterday for the crowds. But from what I saw today, the process is very inefficient - literally one voter at a time is asked for ID and processed. They had 5 or 6 poll workers doing various parts of the process like asking for my ID, printing my paper, leading me to the scanner to scan my vote card in, etc. But it was a bandwidth of 1 person at a time, which is insane. In years past, I remember 5-10 people at the ID desk at a time.
Inefficient as hell. It looked like they had picked up the folks working registration off the street, and they were having some major (user) errors when processing info.
Same! Waiting in line for a measly 2 hrs is the absolute least I can do for a guy who has had to fight 12-16 hrs every day for the last 4 years. I also signed up as a poll worker here on election day. Waiting to get final confirmation.
Was hard to say just looking at the line demographics. In metro Atlanta that can be deceiving. Anecdotal evidence: a guy drove by and yelled out his car window to those in line: "Vote Trump for America! Keep America great!" True story. Not much reaction from the line either way, but I didn't see that in 2016.
brilliant point. another benefit of the rallies. 100% biden voters are not waiting more than 30 mins to vote. stacy abrams was bitching about voters having to wait in line during midterms.
Good work Georgia boy. I'm going with my ladypede in early morning this week. Athens has some Biden signs but ffs... I know the kinds of people who put them up. Old, out of touch, haven't really been outside their bubble since they moved here, they read in a magazine 20 years ago that they should come here so their safe space wouldn't be disturbed.
Crazy to me how there are lines at so many polling places in the USA. I have never had to wait in line to vote. Maybe we have more polling places here in South Florida.
I don't understand why some of these states have 3, 4, 5 hour long lines to vote...I usually walk right in and vote and it takes 5 minutes, tops. I live in cucked MA, but maybe that's one thing we do right. I live in a town of about 35,000 and we have 10 different polling places. I've been voting since 92 and I've never, ever spent more than 5-10 minutes voting
I have voted in primaries, mid-terms, and presidential elections, on my lunch break, in 3 different states in places ranging from towns of 10,000 to cities of 250,000. I have never had to wait in line more than 15 minutes. I just don't get it.
PS: To be clear, I am referring to different points in my life as a resident of each of those states, not at once, I'm not a democrat lol.
Serious question: Why are people voting early? What advantage does it give you versus voting on Election Day? It seems to me it just gives Democrats advanced warning of how many ballots they need to harvest/“find”.
I gave a more detailed reply to someone else already, but this is Atlanta and the lines may only get worse based on experience. I feel the Dems' plans to cheat are going full force regardless, independent of whether they can get inside info on the count.
Hey I got a question. If your state law bans open carry, and the sheriff is a Communist who only gives CCW licenses to family members, would you arrest someone who was doing nothing wrong other than carrying a concealed firearm (legally owned)? Let's say they have no record whatsoever and they're acting totally normal and sober and talking to you politely. Would you still arrest them? (Let's also say for the sake of things it would be a misdemeanor in said state not felony)
If you implying they will discard it, they could do the same thing on Election Day. I would advise voting in person instead of mail, but to stoke fear that early voting is dangerous is irresponsible.
I don't have any insight, but I don't know of any advantage (related to vote security) in waiting. The process here is that after voting on the screen, my vote card is printed to paper. I walk over to the scanner and hand-feed that paper into the scanner and wait until it says "vote cast" and the running vote counter increments by +1. I'm registered as a poll worker on election day, so I may get to see some behind-the-scenes process then.
We always vote on election day and usually go right after work. After reading this (Georgia residents by the way) we decided we're going to be at the polls when they open that morning. It may be a long wait but it will be glorious.
I’m 45 years old and have never had to wait longer than 15 minutes to vote. Is it really as crowded as you say? Is it voter enthusiasm or to few polling centers? Genuinely curious.
I think it's multiple factors - enthusiasm for sure, and also too few poll workers hired for early voting. As I replied to others, in this location they were processing only one person at a time in a line of about 250. So basically 1 person was let into the voting room every 2-3 minutes, which is ridiculous. Very inefficient poll workers. The stories of 11-12 hours in Atlanta on Monday also had the holiday as a factor with everyone voting on their day off.
Treat it like a tailgate party if you have to. Bring a wagon with a cooler and snacks, a folding chair, and an umbrella. Go with a friend or a spouse, they can hold your place in line if you need to use the toilet. If Big Don works 12 hours a day for us, we can work one 12 hour day for HIM (which is really for all of us, anyway!).
I'm fortunate to be in-between jobs riiiiight during the election so I'll be able to take the day and vote. If I wasn't, I was 100% going to ask for the day off to go vote. My boss is a flaming lib, I feel like she might have even paid us for the day to go vote lol she has no idea where I stand, pretty sure she thinks I'm also a lib.
I got out there at 11:30, which was probably too late. With a Republican governor and Republican Sec of State, there's not much else we can hope for in terms of vote security - they've had 2 years to prepare for this (plus all the years that Kemp as Sec of State). If they've failed, we're fucked. I figure if my vote isn't safe in the system early, it won't be safe on election day either.
We have 3 weeks to vote. This "early voting" is bullshit propaganda bait. The election is November 3rd. Period. This 'early voting' doesn't mean the President now serves 3 years, 10 months, and we have a '2 month' election period.
I don't get the "wait in line for hours to vote early" thing. I understand being stoked to vote MAGA but I would just come back in a week when there's no line.
The machines were fine here. As I said in one of my other replies, the human workflow was shockingly inefficient. The bandwidth is literally one voter processed at a time.
My husband and I both voted this afternoon, we were done in less than 30 minutes. They had a lot of people working there and moving everyone along very efficiently.
I went today. The line wasn’t long but it took over an hour to get through. With social distancing they only have a handful of booths open. Got to talk to my neighbors while I waited.
best time to vote in person is between 1pm-4pm. most people vote early before work, or during their lunch break, or right after work, try to avoid those times
I gave a more detailed reply above, but it's not the machines - they were processing one voter at a time here in a line of 250 people. I don't think they hired enough poll workers to match the early-voting turnout.
Republican governor and Sec of State. And the current governor (Kemp) had been the Sec of State for 8 years immediately prior under Republican governors. So no excuse.
I wish that was true, but I've seen some videos (posted here, actually) of people waiting in line for 11 hours that seemed like Biden voters. We can't underestimate their resolve, and we need to counter it full force.
Not enough poll workers and a very inefficient workflow, in my opinion. As I've replied to others, they were letting one person from the line into the voting room every 2-3 minutes. Not because of Covid - that was just the speed of the poll workers.
Polling places in GA run by county. Fulton, DeKalb, heart of Atlanta. Idiot democrats, many minorities, run the elections, poorly, and then bitch it’s suppression and racism. Not enough polling places, confused workers, not enough functional machines in polling stations, a lot of user error firing up the machines, etc. For years my polling station was close by my house, I could walk, and It seemed to run pretty well. Then, the polling station torn down and a bunch of $800k and up condos built in its place. Polling moved to some kind of community center miles away with hardly any parking, No nearby train station. Terrible signage— like a piece of crappy copy paper with magic marker taped to a telephone polll and a door, and there were guys booting voters cars if they parked in the wrong spot. After looking all over for parking, I got inside and the line was long and slow. I saw machines sitting idle and asked, what’s up and the worker said not enough outlets, extension cords or power strips. Lol. Great. Clusterfuck from top to bottom.
There’ve been scathing reviews of how badly local officials performed on Election Day for years in Fulton and DeKalb especially, but there doesn’t seem to be any capacity to fix it. The republican state government can only do so much since it’s up to local officials, and the local officials, well I don’t know what their excuse is. It’s hard to tell if it’s stupidity, corruption, or both. Taxes are high enough, there’s surely plenty of money. The GA DMV used to be really awful, day long or multi day long waits to get a license, but it’s been dramatically improved. Last renewal by appointment and took 15 minutes, tops.
Democrats foul up their own counties, then call in TV to broadcast how terrible the voting process is, then blame the state. Either it is intentional, or these people are retarded. Its a tough choice.
See Fulton and Dekalb GA and Broward FL for a few examples.
I've done the same in years past, but the passion on both sides for this election is nuts. Add a shockingly inefficient workflow (in some areas) and this is what happens.
Hope you turn out to be right. There's indeed no passion for Biden, but too many in this country are wildly passionate about communism. Biden is simply a Trojan Horse and they know it.
There is no fucking way there is a voting line 12 hours long.
I waited in a fairly long line yesterday (wrapped around the building) and it was 30 mins. a line 24 times as long as that would have been in the next town.
At the place I voted, they were letting one person in the voting room about every 2-3 minutes. Not due to Covid, but due to the poor workflow of the poll workers asking for IDs, printing the paper form, giving the chip cards, etc.
awesome, i am a former GA resident, now in PA. i don't think we're doing early voting. i wonder if there are any stories of ppl being denied vote due to too long of a queue...
I have heard this as well.
But I'm going to hijack your comment and remind everyone...
In 2000 they tried to call FL for Gore, and then to close the polls. Which was false. Alot of people left the line, and then were not able to vote.
Please Pedes. If you are reading this, do not let them disenfranchise you. VOTE.
Ha! I heard they tried the same commie shit in Canada one year.
Called it for Trudy in the west coast, 3 hours before the polls closed in Ontario, where all the votes are.
good to know. to me it just seems possible that queues could be so long as to take a day to finish (apparently a 12-hour wait has been documented), so if we're talking election night then is it feasible to delay publishing of counts? seems unlikely but was just wondering what would happen in that case.
You can technically vote early in PA, but it's an in person absentee ballot. You apply for the ballot at the elections office and complete it at the same time. Look into dates and times for your area.
https://www.votespa.com/Voting-in-PA/Pages/Early-Voting.aspx
They can't kick you out if you are in line when the polling place closes on Nov 3.
sweet. looks like i am taking the day off just in case!
I'm in Southwest PA and saw some fuckery in 16' voting for GEOTUS. it wasn't anything super crazy, but I was able to report my issue to the campaign via their website, and they responded within literal minutes...on election day. So if you see or hear of anything, report that shit.
whoa that's awesome that they responded that quickly. thanks, will keep in mind
Because people are livid and want some payback. Dems are going down hard.
Same and I live in South Florida.
I am hearing the voting machines were having issues
"issues"
I'm seeing stories of 11-12 hours yesterday in some other parts of metro-Atlanta. Some blame the holiday yesterday for the crowds. But from what I saw today, the process is very inefficient - literally one voter at a time is asked for ID and processed. They had 5 or 6 poll workers doing various parts of the process like asking for my ID, printing my paper, leading me to the scanner to scan my vote card in, etc. But it was a bandwidth of 1 person at a time, which is insane. In years past, I remember 5-10 people at the ID desk at a time.
Inefficient as hell. It looked like they had picked up the folks working registration off the street, and they were having some major (user) errors when processing info.
I’ve never waited 4 years for anything...i’m so excited to vote for this guy again!
Same! Waiting in line for a measly 2 hrs is the absolute least I can do for a guy who has had to fight 12-16 hrs every day for the last 4 years. I also signed up as a poll worker here on election day. Waiting to get final confirmation.
Fingers crossed
Great job signing up as a poll worker
Was hard to say just looking at the line demographics. In metro Atlanta that can be deceiving. Anecdotal evidence: a guy drove by and yelled out his car window to those in line: "Vote Trump for America! Keep America great!" True story. Not much reaction from the line either way, but I didn't see that in 2016.
I really hope that's not wishful thinking. All lives deserve GEOTUS.
I would camp overnight to cast my vote if it meant saving America from the radical left
People aren't waiting 3 hours to vote for Creepy Joe.
MAGA
not one of them!
brilliant point. another benefit of the rallies. 100% biden voters are not waiting more than 30 mins to vote. stacy abrams was bitching about voters having to wait in line during midterms.
Meanwhile stupidhead Claire McCaskill complained that the long lines were “voter suppression” if you can imagine that; Thank God for Josh Hawley!!
Good work Georgia boy. I'm going with my ladypede in early morning this week. Athens has some Biden signs but ffs... I know the kinds of people who put them up. Old, out of touch, haven't really been outside their bubble since they moved here, they read in a magazine 20 years ago that they should come here so their safe space wouldn't be disturbed.
Clarke County is a shit hole. I try not to go there, ever.
Damn right!
Banned.video
Exactly, next week 10am or 2pm is gonna be 10 minutes in and out.
Crazy to me how there are lines at so many polling places in the USA. I have never had to wait in line to vote. Maybe we have more polling places here in South Florida.
There wasn't a line for mid term election, but the presidential one yes. I waited in 2016 and expect to wait this year.
Way to go pede!
I'll be waiting in line before the polls open on Nov. 3rd. No force on Earth or Hell can stop me.
I don't understand why some of these states have 3, 4, 5 hour long lines to vote...I usually walk right in and vote and it takes 5 minutes, tops. I live in cucked MA, but maybe that's one thing we do right. I live in a town of about 35,000 and we have 10 different polling places. I've been voting since 92 and I've never, ever spent more than 5-10 minutes voting
I have voted in primaries, mid-terms, and presidential elections, on my lunch break, in 3 different states in places ranging from towns of 10,000 to cities of 250,000. I have never had to wait in line more than 15 minutes. I just don't get it.
PS: To be clear, I am referring to different points in my life as a resident of each of those states, not at once, I'm not a democrat lol.
Serious question: Why are people voting early? What advantage does it give you versus voting on Election Day? It seems to me it just gives Democrats advanced warning of how many ballots they need to harvest/“find”.
I gave a more detailed reply to someone else already, but this is Atlanta and the lines may only get worse based on experience. I feel the Dems' plans to cheat are going full force regardless, independent of whether they can get inside info on the count.
And just what do you think they are going to do with your vote between now and Nov 3?
I'm a police officer. If I get ambushed and die between now and election day, I want my vote to still count. Early voted yesterday.
You don't need to ask him to know yes.
Seriously let me go ask a meteorologist what color the sky is
Hey I got a question. If your state law bans open carry, and the sheriff is a Communist who only gives CCW licenses to family members, would you arrest someone who was doing nothing wrong other than carrying a concealed firearm (legally owned)? Let's say they have no record whatsoever and they're acting totally normal and sober and talking to you politely. Would you still arrest them? (Let's also say for the sake of things it would be a misdemeanor in said state not felony)
If my state banned open carry, I wouldn't live there.
The answer though, is a resounding no.
If you implying they will discard it, they could do the same thing on Election Day. I would advise voting in person instead of mail, but to stoke fear that early voting is dangerous is irresponsible.
I don't have any insight, but I don't know of any advantage (related to vote security) in waiting. The process here is that after voting on the screen, my vote card is printed to paper. I walk over to the scanner and hand-feed that paper into the scanner and wait until it says "vote cast" and the running vote counter increments by +1. I'm registered as a poll worker on election day, so I may get to see some behind-the-scenes process then.
We always vote on election day and usually go right after work. After reading this (Georgia residents by the way) we decided we're going to be at the polls when they open that morning. It may be a long wait but it will be glorious.
I’m 45 years old and have never had to wait longer than 15 minutes to vote. Is it really as crowded as you say? Is it voter enthusiasm or to few polling centers? Genuinely curious.
I think it's multiple factors - enthusiasm for sure, and also too few poll workers hired for early voting. As I replied to others, in this location they were processing only one person at a time in a line of about 250. So basically 1 person was let into the voting room every 2-3 minutes, which is ridiculous. Very inefficient poll workers. The stories of 11-12 hours in Atlanta on Monday also had the holiday as a factor with everyone voting on their day off.
No matter how long.
Treat it like a tailgate party if you have to. Bring a wagon with a cooler and snacks, a folding chair, and an umbrella. Go with a friend or a spouse, they can hold your place in line if you need to use the toilet. If Big Don works 12 hours a day for us, we can work one 12 hour day for HIM (which is really for all of us, anyway!).
I'm fortunate to be in-between jobs riiiiight during the election so I'll be able to take the day and vote. If I wasn't, I was 100% going to ask for the day off to go vote. My boss is a flaming lib, I feel like she might have even paid us for the day to go vote lol she has no idea where I stand, pretty sure she thinks I'm also a lib.
Im in GA. How early did you go? I was waiting to go tomorrow because its mid week and I feel like it might be the slowest day.
Also kind of scared of early voting because I have no idea how safe my vote will actually be.
I got out there at 11:30, which was probably too late. With a Republican governor and Republican Sec of State, there's not much else we can hope for in terms of vote security - they've had 2 years to prepare for this (plus all the years that Kemp as Sec of State). If they've failed, we're fucked. I figure if my vote isn't safe in the system early, it won't be safe on election day either.
We have 3 weeks to vote. This "early voting" is bullshit propaganda bait. The election is November 3rd. Period. This 'early voting' doesn't mean the President now serves 3 years, 10 months, and we have a '2 month' election period.
Fuck outta here.
Gratz on your vote though~!
I don't get the "wait in line for hours to vote early" thing. I understand being stoked to vote MAGA but I would just come back in a week when there's no line.
This is Atlanta - there will be lines every day, unfortunately. It's a crap shoot. It may get worse, which is why I voted early.
Same. I early voted in GA yesterday. I got to the precinct just before closing time and there were still quite a few people there.
Ayye what up fellow Georgian! Yeah heard something fucky was up with the machines making them take along time or something
The machines were fine here. As I said in one of my other replies, the human workflow was shockingly inefficient. The bandwidth is literally one voter processed at a time.
My husband and I both voted this afternoon, we were done in less than 30 minutes. They had a lot of people working there and moving everyone along very efficiently.
Glad to hear that it's not a train wreck everywhere. Hopefully it continues to get better.
We’re outside the city so I’m sure that helps
That's nice, but Election Day is Nov 3rd.
I went today. The line wasn’t long but it took over an hour to get through. With social distancing they only have a handful of booths open. Got to talk to my neighbors while I waited.
Early voted today in GA as well. 2.5 hour wait, was told yesterday was 5-6hrs. We need to show out!
best time to vote in person is between 1pm-4pm. most people vote early before work, or during their lunch break, or right after work, try to avoid those times
You may be right. Another commenter in the same area said the lines were shorter later than when I went.
What is going on? Why is it taking so long?
I gave a more detailed reply above, but it's not the machines - they were processing one voter at a time here in a line of 250 people. I don't think they hired enough poll workers to match the early-voting turnout.
Hmm, that's strange isn't it because Georgia is Republican controlled? Or what party is controlling your local polling station?
Republican governor and Sec of State. And the current governor (Kemp) had been the Sec of State for 8 years immediately prior under Republican governors. So no excuse.
Voting in person is the only way to SECURE your vote!
Not a single one of biden voters would wait more than 10 min in line
I wish that was true, but I've seen some videos (posted here, actually) of people waiting in line for 11 hours that seemed like Biden voters. We can't underestimate their resolve, and we need to counter it full force.
Why are the lines so dam long?
Did you talk to anyone else around you? What was the feeling? Trump?
Why so long? I’m in Commie-fornia but I’ve never even waited in line. Are there not enough polling places?
Not enough poll workers and a very inefficient workflow, in my opinion. As I've replied to others, they were letting one person from the line into the voting room every 2-3 minutes. Not because of Covid - that was just the speed of the poll workers.
Polling places in GA run by county. Fulton, DeKalb, heart of Atlanta. Idiot democrats, many minorities, run the elections, poorly, and then bitch it’s suppression and racism. Not enough polling places, confused workers, not enough functional machines in polling stations, a lot of user error firing up the machines, etc. For years my polling station was close by my house, I could walk, and It seemed to run pretty well. Then, the polling station torn down and a bunch of $800k and up condos built in its place. Polling moved to some kind of community center miles away with hardly any parking, No nearby train station. Terrible signage— like a piece of crappy copy paper with magic marker taped to a telephone polll and a door, and there were guys booting voters cars if they parked in the wrong spot. After looking all over for parking, I got inside and the line was long and slow. I saw machines sitting idle and asked, what’s up and the worker said not enough outlets, extension cords or power strips. Lol. Great. Clusterfuck from top to bottom.
There’ve been scathing reviews of how badly local officials performed on Election Day for years in Fulton and DeKalb especially, but there doesn’t seem to be any capacity to fix it. The republican state government can only do so much since it’s up to local officials, and the local officials, well I don’t know what their excuse is. It’s hard to tell if it’s stupidity, corruption, or both. Taxes are high enough, there’s surely plenty of money. The GA DMV used to be really awful, day long or multi day long waits to get a license, but it’s been dramatically improved. Last renewal by appointment and took 15 minutes, tops.
Democrats foul up their own counties, then call in TV to broadcast how terrible the voting process is, then blame the state. Either it is intentional, or these people are retarded. Its a tough choice.
See Fulton and Dekalb GA and Broward FL for a few examples.
I thought the election was on November 3rd.
For reals. That's the day the national vote is held, and that's they day I plan on voting in person for GEOTUS here in GA once again.
I literally have voted after work my whole life day of election in Canada.
Yall crazy.
I've done the same in years past, but the passion on both sides for this election is nuts. Add a shockingly inefficient workflow (in some areas) and this is what happens.
Wrong there’s no passion on the Biden (evil) side except just the f trump crowd. That doesn’t get you over the line historically speaking.
Hope you turn out to be right. There's indeed no passion for Biden, but too many in this country are wildly passionate about communism. Biden is simply a Trojan Horse and they know it.
There is no fucking way there is a voting line 12 hours long.
I waited in a fairly long line yesterday (wrapped around the building) and it was 30 mins. a line 24 times as long as that would have been in the next town.
Check out this post, also from yesterday: https://thedonald.win/p/HrKIkwQH/now-standing-in-line-for-early-v/
At the place I voted, they were letting one person in the voting room about every 2-3 minutes. Not due to Covid, but due to the poor workflow of the poll workers asking for IDs, printing the paper form, giving the chip cards, etc.
Needs Democracy Sausage.