We had an almost 79% turnout here in Washington,

[pnwmom]

where we have an all-mail ballot (though there are still some secure boxes scattered around the state, for people who want to deposit their ballot directly.)

Oregon and CO also have mail-in. It's too bad it isn't like this everywhere. The only downside is it takes longer to tabulate our votes, because many of them are delivered to the elections facilities up to a few days after election day.

This is the turn-out most states would have if there wasn't so much voter suppression.

[RandySF]

1. I'll take an accessible, thorough election over instant results any day.

[pnwmom]

2. You had a similar turn-out in CA. There's no excuse for other states.

They could follow your state's example, or the all-mail-in states. We've shown that it can work.

[RandySF]

3. To be fair, pot and porn were on our ballot :)

[Raster]

4. I'll take pot and porn any day over guns and the Bible.

[RandySF]

5. Hence our strong turnout ;)

[pnwmom]

6. LOL! Good idea. That will increase turnout, for sure. n/t

[NWCorona]

7. I'd be one of the ones contributing to the late results as I use the drop boxes

I was bummed when it went to all mail in voting but I'm fine with it now and I've always seen the benefits.

I didn't know that it would be that high but not surprised. I'm pretty happy being a Washingtonian. Thanks for the info!

[pnwmom]

8. Here's the list by county.

San Juan County won the turnout count -- 88%.

http://results.vote.wa.gov/results/current/Turnout.html

[NWCorona]

9. Thanks for that link! What's up with Yakima?

[pnwmom]

10. Other states would be proud of Yakima.

But yeah, Yakima looks like a slacker here.

[bhikkhu]

11. 78.9% in Oregon

Which is pretty good - not our highest numbers, but pretty respectable.

I still can't imagine the states that make it hard to vote, how they even justify that and still have jobs. I think there's whole sections of the country (east of here) where people angrily shout how government can't do anything right, what a mess things are in, and they don't connect that to their own state governments that make it as hard as possible for them to vote for anything.

[Doreen]

12. I dropped mine into a ballot box and only four days

before the deadline...sorry. I think my county is a Trump county even though Washington is blue. I am a Lewis County person...sorry.

[pnwmom]

13. You don't have to apologize for your county! Thanks for getting your vote in. nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. My brother is in Spokane

He really hates Trump.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Big deal ! Some towns in WI had up to 113% turnout.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512638990

[pnwmom]

16. Sigh. That's true. We can't compete with that. n/t