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Post by oreobitsy on Oct 26, 2022 17:11:44 GMT -6
How small of a town is it for these garage polling stations? My garage is a hot mess, I’d never volunteer my garage for Election Day.
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Post by sifl on Oct 26, 2022 17:16:01 GMT -6
How small of a town is it for these garage polling stations? My garage is a hot mess, I’d never volunteer my garage for Election Day. For me it was in the state capital. Not small!
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Post by elle on Oct 26, 2022 17:34:26 GMT -6
How small of a town is it for these garage polling stations? My garage is a hot mess, I’d never volunteer my garage for Election Day. A city of 300k. So not what I'd call small exactly.
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Post by elle on Oct 26, 2022 17:35:58 GMT -6
I think it's actually in part because of the size? Not enough public spaces to handle the volume, so they ask for volunteers to offer up a space on election day. Early voting would only happen at city hall, so it was "only" a day long commitment.
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Post by mathrun on Oct 26, 2022 17:42:26 GMT -6
Whoa. NHIE heard of garage voting.
Around here it was generally schools and churches up through early 2000s. Then we had a school shooting at one of our large HSs and shortly after that they put in the door buzzers and moved polling places to churches and nursing homes. That was actually super fun because the retirees would come say hi and hand out stickers and candy. Then with COVID they moved it back to the school but locked the door between the gym and the rest of the school. Kiddos eat in their classrooms that day.
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Post by jaygee on Oct 26, 2022 17:46:37 GMT -6
How small of a town is it for these garage polling stations? My garage is a hot mess, I’d never volunteer my garage for Election Day. San Francisco! But that was in the early 2000s. I got the sense that the people were super volunteers. Like it was their thing.
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Post by goldenbird on Oct 26, 2022 19:00:21 GMT -6
Oh I see it's time for me to complain that WE DON'T HAVE EARLY VOTING. ugh That is so unfair. I don't understand why.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 26, 2022 19:07:09 GMT -6
This weekend I learned that in other countries you don’t have to register to vote. Like some of our friends are from Denmark and they said once you turn 18 it’s automatic. So you can go to vote without having to deal with the registration shit. How nice would that be? Or going through the registration process only to have Brian Kemp randomly decide you no longer get to vote bc you missed a couple of elections?
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Post by beaf12 on Oct 26, 2022 19:16:02 GMT -6
When y'all say garage, do you mean like auto repair shop? Or just somebody's two car garage with the door open??? Single car, tuck under garage. In Cincinnati, not a suburb. I think one year I actually went through the garage into the basement 😂. This was in the 90s. The ballots got put through a slot in a wooden box locked with a padlock. I remember thinking I have no idea if my vote is going to count.
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Post by byjove on Oct 26, 2022 19:20:43 GMT -6
Apparently this was meant to infer Halloween masks? SMH.
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Post by byjove on Oct 26, 2022 19:39:37 GMT -6
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Post by iruntodrink on Oct 26, 2022 19:48:18 GMT -6
Here schools don't have election day off. They do have the first day of hunting season off.
#priorities
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Post by oreobitsy on Oct 26, 2022 20:03:16 GMT -6
We don’t have Election Day off here either. But we do get our ballots by mail and then can mail or return to a polling place, which is not a garage.
I am positive the powers that be would make it harder if there was more liberal voting happening. As it is , someone locally tried to say there was fraud and people were like “Trump won in the state, so no?”
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Post by ldubhawksfan on Oct 26, 2022 20:04:37 GMT -6
When y'all say garage, do you mean like auto repair shop? Or just somebody's two car garage with the door open??? For me it was someone's garage with the door open and the voting machines and check in table all set up inside. I also forgot that we had early voting at City Hall and I did that a few times too. Same, once in their garage with the door open. Another time was in a living room of a condo in the same complex. Not small towns at all, but small polling zones.
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Post by richard on Oct 26, 2022 20:17:45 GMT -6
Apparently this was meant to infer Halloween masks? SMH. They also already apologized and removed the signs. They had the same signs up in 2019 and just rolled the same Halloween signs back out. I’m just impressed they found the signs from 3 years ago. When I had to go look for a sign we hadn’t used for a bit in the back of the museum, it would end up taking hours because some asshole had moved them around in the storage area. I made a sign that said “don’t touch the signs!”
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Post by richard on Oct 26, 2022 20:20:12 GMT -6
I could not host a polling site in my garage because I’d be compelled to clean my garage.
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Post by flippinchica on Oct 26, 2022 20:28:35 GMT -6
I voted early today. I would not mail in vote here even if I was eligible (if I could help it) because i don't trust the mail in system here. I would worry about my vote getting tossed because of signature matching or some other nonsense
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Post by fatpony on Oct 26, 2022 20:36:52 GMT -6
I like to vote day of for no other reason than I like to bring my daughter in with me so she can see the process, we can talk about what's happening and we can thank the judges. She's never missed an election since she's been born.
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Post by richard on Oct 26, 2022 20:39:03 GMT -6
In light of Elon probably buying Twitter officially on Friday, a thread of some of the best of Twitter.
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Post by jaygee on Oct 26, 2022 22:38:58 GMT -6
I’m really grumpy that this is actually happening.
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Post by jaygee on Oct 26, 2022 22:45:34 GMT -6
I voted early today. I would not mail in vote here even if I was eligible (if I could help it) because i don't trust the mail in system here. I would worry about my vote getting tossed because of signature matching or some other nonsense I hear ya. We have ballot tracking her so I actually get texts all along the process. Like when my ballot is shipped. When it’s received back and when it’s counted. Otherwise I would be extremely on edge.
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Post by jaygee on Oct 26, 2022 22:46:13 GMT -6
In light of Elon probably buying Twitter officially on Friday, a thread of some of the best of Twitter. Clear my schedule tomorrow. This thread is gold. My fav so far:
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Post by jaygee on Oct 26, 2022 23:47:11 GMT -6
Just took a scroll through my Twitter account since I’ll probably delete it tomorrow. 😢 1,900 tweets, 2 World Series championships for the Giants, 1 horrible POTUS, and lots of laughs. What a ride.
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Post by byjove on Oct 27, 2022 4:52:46 GMT -6
Apparently this was meant to infer Halloween masks? SMH. They also already apologized and removed the signs. They had the same signs up in 2019 and just rolled the same Halloween signs back out. Yes, didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t. It was very short sighted on their part, though. 2022 is a very different world than 2019.
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Post by kbw on Oct 27, 2022 7:09:27 GMT -6
Blergh. Listening to todays The Daily Podcast has just ramped up my anxiety and makes me depressed. And I’m trying really hard to not lose it on all of the Zeldin support I’m seeing locally.
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Post by clucky on Oct 27, 2022 7:09:38 GMT -6
But still pushing for privatization of schools and thinking this won’t or can’t happen *to them.
TLDR of email: KW’s academy closes immediately with promises to come back next year.
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Post by starbuck on Oct 27, 2022 7:22:04 GMT -6
But still pushing for privatization of schools and thinking this won’t or can’t happen *to them. TLDR of email: KW’s academy closes immediately with promises to come back next year. I have a lot of very strong 4-letter feelings about cancelling an entire motherfucking school year with 12 hours notice. But this reply has killed me dead so you are all spared my rantings.
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Post by kbw on Oct 27, 2022 7:33:24 GMT -6
I’m not sure what I would do if I found out my kids school closed for the rest of the year in less than 12 hours notice.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 27, 2022 7:34:56 GMT -6
I could not host a polling site in my garage because I’d be compelled to clean my garage. I spend a lot of time in random donors' garages at canvasses and you're definitely not required to clean first, trust me lol
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Post by richard on Oct 27, 2022 7:44:20 GMT -6
I’m not sure what I would do if I found out my kids school closed for the rest of the year in less than 12 hours notice. The sympathy I would otherwise have for parents being in this situation is muted by the fact they chose an unaccredited school led by a principal with no educational background and an erratic at best founder. There are clear risks involved with that choice. I do feel bad for the kids.
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