There are also secure ballot boxes at the local library (I’m a frequent flyer, so that’s usually where I drop mine off), city hall, high schools (some students are 18), etc. At least those are our options here.
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You might want to look at Ohio with our black and red I Ohio voting stickers. http://rogersforjudge.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/i-ohio-voting.png
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He’s on the good side of average IMO. There are at least two living presidents who are comparable or better.
Is her mascara clumping or is she blinking Morse Code?
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That. I tried a while ago… “Damn girl”.
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This was the first election in Massachusetts where early voting was allowed. That probably contributed strongly to the high turnout. The fact that this election has Clinton and Trump running as the major party candidates also provided some motivation.
Previously, if you wanted to vote with an absentee ballot you had to have a physical disability or religious belief that would prevent you from being able to visit the polling place on Election Day or were going to be out of town on Election Day.
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Done! It was incredibly quick and easy, even more organized than usual here in Detroit. It took eleven minutes from joining the line to voting (at one of 18 voting stations, more than I’ve ever seen set up before) to walking out the door. No intimidation that I saw, though a young woman did ask me if I got to vote okay on the way out.
Our stickers are very plain, but I love mine.
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I really wanted to come out with ink on my thumb or something.
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Love the shirt! 
Nice to keep some humor even during such a stressful election!
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Fancier than ours out here in Washtenaw County. We get the standard issue sticker people most places get.
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OMG that is priceless…
“I have to register to vote?” I knew they were a bit uninformed but for fucks sake.
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His presidency might not have been the stuff of legend, but I think Jimmy Carter is one of the best human beings out there.
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Exactly! I voted after work, so I pulled the shirt on over my work clothes. I was wearing a jacket though, so I don’t think anyone at the polling place noticed (or were too busy to mention it.) Then I tried to take a selfie next to my car and three people asked me where the polling place was. 
So I told them and took my pic in the car instead.
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bed time on this side of the pond. make no mistake, I am not interested to wake up in a nightmare…
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Right there with you.
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My pamphlet said there was a ballot drop-off outside of a library branch at a mall. I was planning to go over there anyway, so I went and … no ballot box outside the library. So, I went in and asked. “Oh, go out the Pier One and go left”.
No ballot box there either. I have no idea where they hid it. I walked halfway around the outside of the mall and didn’t see one. Ended up sticking it in the mailbox instead.
Edit:
Bitch, I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I had ancestors on the fucking Mayflower. I didn’t vote for Trumpkin.
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Good night, I also really need to go sleeping.
Take care all!
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The states with universal vote-by-mail (Oregon, Colorado, and Washington) are also the same states with legal marijuana. COINCIDENCE? (probably)
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OK, here’s the final rundown, using ethnic breakdown from a NYTimes article:
First, tried to vote last week at an early voting location in Chicago:
92% Black
1.8% Hispanic
1.1% Asian
3% White
1.8% Others
Waited 30 minutes before finding out the full wait time was over 2 hours, and left.
From there, drove to another location somewhat nearby, which fortunately had more room and more machines, so my wait time was only about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, 4 of the machines had printer problems, meaning during the time I was there I witnessed that a voter would go all the way through the process before discovering that their vote wasn’t getting tabulated correctly. Four different machines, out of about 20.
94% Black
1.4% Hispanic
0.6% Asian
2% White
1.6% Others
Took someone without a car to that first location on Sunday morning while church was still in session. Line was over 3 hours at that point. They decided to wait until Tuesday and vote in their usual location.
Took someone without a car and a little unsure about the process (all those judges, etc.) to their official voting location today. No line, lots of workers to help the process along.
5% Black
5% Hispanic
17% Asian
68% White
4% Others
But again, to be fair, I was on the north side on Monday and saw a 2-city-block line outside a public library branch in a well-off and majority-white neighborhood:
2% Black
6% Hispanic
6% Asian
84% White
3% Others
Apparently Chicagoans, fearing the worst and not trusting the postal service, decided to vote early in droves, much more than anyone was expecting.
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