how easy is it for you to vote?

[fizzgig]

i am remarkably lucky in colorado and my county. everyone in the state got a mail in ballot this year, early voting and multiple ballot drop off locations, voters without ID can cast provisional ballots. valid ids include student IDs and utility bills. there was a ballot drop off at my grocery store, which saved me a trip to the courthouse.

it makes me so angry that voting is not this easy across the county and that the voting system is so broken in some places.

[upaloopa]

1. Very easy. I get a mail in ballot weeks before the election.

I live in CA where the tea hadists are not in control

[fizzgig]

5. good deal

mail in ballots are wonderful.

[2naSalit]

11. I'm in

Montana but we have a choice of mail in or in person on election day. As long as you voted in the most recent election, they send it to you automatically. You can also deliver it to the polling place on election day if you forgot to put it in the mail prior to that. It's really easy.

[hrmjustin]

2. For me it was easy. No ID required.

Just signed my name and filled out my allot. The print was too small though.

My sister has to vote provisional ballot because they claimed she was not registered there even though she voted twice this year in the primaries there.

[Autumn]

3. It's great. Remove ballot from the mail box, fill it out, mail back.

Or drop it off at several handy locations. Every state should do this.

[Shrike47]

4. Very. We vote by mail, or you can go in if you really want to. (Oregon)

My son should have gone in last year. His vote got challenged on his signature purportedly not matching his registration signature. Did too, to the extent scribbles can match.

[BlueCaliDem]

6. It's the same for me here in SoCal.

Mail ballot comes early (weeks ahead of election day). I can mail in my paper ballot or drop off at any number of polling places in my neighborhood weeks in advance (I don't know how many weeks since I mail in my ballot). My friend and family sit with me and discuss what to vote on, and they sign their paper ballot, pay for the stamp, and let me drop it off at the P.O. That way, our group never misses an election!

Yeah, I wish it were as easy in other states, too, but every Republican-controlled state, it appears, make it very difficult for people to vote. Then again, they don't want everyone to vote. They just want those who'll vote for them to vote.

[RebelOne]

7. No problem for me as my polling place

is at a high school about 1/2 mile from my house. There are no long lines except for the presidential elections. All I do is walk in, show my driver's license, vote and I am done in about 5 minutes.

[fizzgig]

16. i don't remember the last time i voted on election day

it was either 2000 or 2004. the wait was pretty lengthy.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. It could hardly be easier.

Oregon has had exclusively vote-by-mail elections for some time now. I get my ballot and voter's guide weeks in advance, pick out an evening to sit down and fill out the ballot, and mail it the next day. Easy-peasy...

[MindPilot]

9. Very. I'm a permanent vote-by-mail voter.

I get my ballot in the mail two or three weeks before the election.

I believe anyone in California can sign up for vote-by-mail. Registration is very easy and can be done almost anyplace. Those times I have physically gone to the polling place, the wait is maybe 5 or 10 minutes at most.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. Ridiculously -

I go a few blocks to our local polling place that is in a neighbor's garage. No ID is needed, I simply give my name and address. We have Optiscan ballots that I fill out and get to place in the sealed counter. And I get my "I Voted!" sticker to add to my collection.

[JimDandy]

12. Don't like CO's 'ballots postmarked on election day are thrown out'

Mail-in is nice all right, but the process is unfair to Colorado voters, because the ballots must all be in the clerk's office by 7 pm to be counted. That means ballots must be in the mail 3-4 days before the election. Colorado doesn't go by the date postmarked. Voters who want to wait until the last minute to vote (Oct surprises, etc.) must then drive their ballots to the few drop-off boxes available. No ballot boxes at grocery stores in my city - they are located only at the City and County Clerks Offices here.

[fizzgig]

15. yeah, that is lousy

hadn't remembered that.

[dballance]

13. Damned Easy in Oregon. It's all by mail.

When you update your driver's license voter registration is automatically updated too. So even if you move, if you properly update your license you will get your ballots.

Screw the damned voting machines and lines.

[11 Bravo]

14. NOVA, no ache (And it didn't hurt that one of the election officials was a former student of mine!)

[FSogol]

18. Same here. NOVA. We vote at an elementary school in the neighborhood. n/t

[tabbycat31]

17. I'm registered and vote in New Jersey

And NJ has no reason voting by mail. (I'm out of state now so have a legit reason to vote absentee).

I've never been asked for ID to vote even when I did vote in person.

[kentuck]

19. I just sent an email to the County Clerk of El Paso County.

I mailed in my ballot but how do I know they received it and how do I know it was counted? Seems this would be the simplest way for voter fraud - just throw the ballots in the trash can. And we should be worried about some "illegal" casting a vote?

I could not find the information anywhere on their website? Are we supposed to just trust and not verify?

[kestrel91316]

20. I always vote by mail these days. But I've heard that absentee ballots are only counted if it's

really close, so I'm not sure why I bother at all.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. Extremely easy and fun. Oregon votes by mail, so it's a sofa vote with vape hits and internet access

for researching those issues or minor candidates you might need to check out. I drop them off at the Elections Office instead of mailing them because that's my idea of big fun.

[meadowlark5]

22. I'm in colorado too and I dropped mine off while running errands today

But we don't have a republican governor and haven't for many years. I think that makes a big difference. Though that slimy Scott Gessler tried purging registered voters back in 2012. And that smary turd is going to run for governor next year. If he wins, it may become much more difficult to vote in Colorado.

[Downtown Hound]

23. In California, it's damn easy

Only problem is it takes more than a month for all the votes to be counted here.

[MineralMan]

24. In Minnesota, you walk into the polling place, sign the book, and vote.

If you're not registered, you can do so on election day at the polling place, although some form of ID will be needed, but that can just be someone who is registered vouching for you.

Very relaxed. Very pleasant, and the poll workers are all friendly to everyone.

Minnesota Nice...

[LadyHawkAZ]

25. Really, really easy here

with the caveat that this is Utah, and it's not like they really have a reason to make it tough. Most races here are foregone conclusions, and the (R) Mormon majority isn't threatened yet.

[procon]

26. No problemo here in rural So Cal

It's a nice stroll to the end of my dirt road, and across the main street to the polling center that's been hosted in the community hall at the local church for at least the last 40+ years. There's seldom a wait, and I can't recall ever being asked for an ID, but then everyone knows each other. They do formally ask for my name and address to check me off the voter list then hand me one of those old fashioned ink-a-vote cards. I fill it out, drop it a locked plastic tub and get my little "I Voted!" sticker.

[Control-Z]

27. I guess it could be easier -

if I chose to use a mail in ballot. But I love walking in and casting my vote in person. I love getting my "I Voted" sticker. I even love standing in a line if there is one, though there's seldom more than a dozen people waiting even in big turnout years.

My favorite was when I got to vote at the local fire station. There was something really special about voting next to one of those big shiny red fire trucks! I believe they broke up a few precincts after that and it changed my voting place.

I don't know what it's like in other counties in So Cal, but OC makes it really easy and convenient to vote. The church where I now vote is right down the street and walking distance for probably everyone assigned that precinct.

[sarisataka]

28. Walk in, sign the book,

sign the other book for electronic registration, vote, chat with the election officials, fill out a survey what I think about electronic registration, done. All of that in 15 minutes. I could have been done in 3.

[bigwillq]

29. No issues at my place today

I live in CT.

I had an issue in the past where they crossed off my name by mistake and I had to fill out some form, but that can sometimes happen.

Overall, I find it very easy to vote where I live.

[northoftheborder]

30. Texas.

The poll workers were very helpful with the additional step you have to go through when your Driver's License name doesn't match your Voter's Reg. card name. They also had the form to use to change your Voter's Reg. card name so that when it is mailed out next year it will match. I mildly protested, because my maiden name on my Driver's is one I NEVER use on any other legal document. One of them piped up and said, you don't have to change it, but you will have to sign the affidavit every time you vote. I went ahead and signed the affadavit, and had my card changed. Later, I thought, I should have asked if they were making an independent local decision to say you do not HAVE to change your card name to match; or is that part of the small print on the state law.

I sensed that they all were very defensive, and making an effort to be extra pleasant and friendly to everyone. Hope they had a bunch of disgruntled persons with more complicated ID cases complaining. (VIVID RED COUNTY)

[Gothmog]

31. My youngest is an election judge today

At her training, the election office instructed all poll workers to try to help people vote and to deal with the new system. So far I have not heard of any complaints but this will be a low turnout election

[Jenoch]

32. It's incredibly easy to vote for me.

In fact, I voted today. All I had to do was to drive to the elementary school where the polls were located. I walked up, told them my name and address, I signed the book by my name, they gave me a ballot. I went to the voting booth, filled in the ovals with the ink pen and then I put the ballot into the machine that counts ballots. I walked out the door. The entire voting process would have taken two minutes, except I stopped to talk to the guy handing out the red and white 'I Voted' stickers.

[Gothmog]

33. Vote by Mail in Texas

There is going to be a major program by the Texas Democratic Party to help people vote by mail in order to solve any problems with the voter id law. I predict that if the voter id law is not found invalid, that there will be far more Texas voters using vote by mail in 2014.

[kentuck]

36. It's not who votes...

It's who counts the votes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. Very easy in Minnesota.

You just show up, sign in and vote; no need to show ID or have a colonoscopy or anything else the GOP would like to require to keep people from voting. You can register at the polls on the day of the election if you have ID showing where you live. They just started on-line registration but of course the GOPers are trying to kill that. http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/230597821.html

[msanthrope]

35. I had to walk the 200 feet to my polling place, see my neighbors, step over smashed pumpkins....

not too bad!