do NOT stand in long lines to vote on tuesday

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77. Good advice and welcome to DU, mijus1957!

I'm in NC and we can go to our voter registration at the BOE site and access our sample ballots that way. I print out my ballot and mark it as necessary. I don't have to do the partisan races -- I'm familiar with all of those candidates and vote for all Dems anyway. During primaries, when I'm not familiar with all of the candidates, it gives me time to research them, make my decisions and mark the sample ballot(s).

In elections like this one, we got lucky -- only 2 pages. I had to research most of the judges and a few other nonpartisan races so I printed it out, took my time doing my research and went to my early voting spot with my marked sample ballot in hand. (I also then give it to my friend/neighbor, who works and has 3 little kids and doesn't have time to do the research that I do. She and I have agreed 100% on votes over the years, so she's thrilled with having that voting assistance. Occasionally in primaries I've had a marginal decision, and in those circumstances I take a little time to tell her why I picked the candidate I did and what I thought the other candidate's plusses and minuses were, as well as basic info on each.)

Hope you have a blast on DU! Come here for some sanity tomorrow.....if DU can be considered "sane." At least you'll find like-minded folks who are celebrating or commiserating!