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All of the above.

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#2, I’ve never seen #1. I agree and believe voting is an honor. I believe the tiny effort to set a little time out of your day and driving 5 minutes to go vote is a pretty low bar to pass for that privalege.

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#2 in Georgia

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#2 is my vote, #1 and #3 are neighbor’s votes cast by me. It’s all the normal for Chicago area voters.

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We drive into town and go to the County Courthouse.
Upstairs in the courtroom is where we vote.
Black sharpie-like pens to blacken an oblong by the name of the nominee.
Put the ballot into a machine that sucks it up.

Sometimes there are so many people the line goes clear out the front door.

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We vote at a school and use the #2 booths. I’m with you about going on Nov. 6th. We usually go early and than go out for breakfast.

Absentee ballots should be used only in a verifiable case of “can’t get to the polls.”

And what’s with this early voting crap? Just more chance to lose bags of votes in the back room.

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#2, heard of #1 but never seen one in person.

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I always wait to vote on election day and I wear my “I voted” sticker all day. But this year, I’m going to break tradition and vote early – today in fact – because I want to be part of the largest early voting turnout in history to evict the current occupier out of the White House.

I don’t know if #2 is a touch screen – it looks like the infamous hanging chad machine – but our ballots are electronic touch screens.

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Just like Tim above.

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#2

And the Special Forces have a 30-sec. ad they want you to see for the election. It rocks!

http://bit.ly/XG30j4

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We use #2 but I’ve been tempted to vote by mail. What stops me from doing so is that I live in Illinois, dropping my ballot in the mailbox doesn’t give me any reassurance my vote will actually be cast by me.

I’ve also been tempted to not vote at all because even though I may vote for a candidate like Romney, my vote is in the Illinois machine and this state will never go Romney. Basically my vote is a complete waste of time.

Eventually it gets the better of me and I show up just to make sure nobody else claimed to be me.

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I try to vote number two everyday.

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mailed mine in two weeks ago.
have always gone to my precinct but recently moved and decided to go wtih the mail option. went online to howard jarvis’s website to guide me through the various ballot initiatives. made it less stressful.

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#2, with electronic touch screens. I’ve seen pictures of #1 but have never voted that way. We vote at a local fire station.

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#2

Touch screens in a private
voting booth

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How Did I Vote?

-STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN BALLOT

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#2 in Virginia, but have fond memories of voting for Ronald Reagan in booth #1.

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Electronic new Hugo machine, this is a photo of one.

#2 looks like a punch card type to me.
Call this one #4

http://media.columbiatribune.com/img/photos/2012/06/30/sa_A10_machine_0630_t300.jpg?8aff03de2423e912a2467e97388a07f5331c05b6

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In Oregon mail-in in the only option. Hate it.

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In Maine, we still have paper ballots. You go into a booth with your national ballot and with your ballot with state on one side and city on the other and fill in the circles with a black marker that it provided. Then you take your ballots and put them into a machine that sucks them out of your hand.

Old fashioned and yet never problems with hanging chads or computers with glitches.

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#2 with the “fill-in-the-oval” with a sharpie marker.
I vote in the basement of a small country church, with some of the nicest older people working in there.
My county goes so far Republican in every election, but we will have Obama lawyers in the court house all night long “making sure they do not cheat him out of a vote”. They had an Obama lawyer there in the 2008 election, even though Barko got less that 40% of the vote here.

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#3,but I will be taking my ballot to the courthouse and hand delivering it. Last election cycle I was unable to get out to vote due to unexpected circumstance

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@BigSlurpy – “…I try to vote number two everyday…”

Maybe you can start a movement.

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I live in AZ and now vote exclusively by mail – gives me the chance to look up the backgrounds of the judges and any candidates that I don’t know as I vote – and I can take as long as I need to get it done. I worked the election booths in 2010 and did find out that you can bring your mail in ballot to the polls and drop it off, so no need to worry about it being “lost in the mail”. The process was pretty slick for making sure all ballots were collecdted. I recommend working at the polls at least once to everyone.

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My dog votes #3 in California

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Hi Illust8r — Washington state, too. Mail in. You’re right, it takes all the occasion out of it. We voted at SPU’s Ashton Hall. It always felt good to drive there, feeling solemn and being reminded that we’ve participated in something that our forebears did when they voted for Washington, Adams and Jefferson.

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I’ve used all three methods – most recently #3 a month ago. I’ve also missed a few voting days by having to work and being new to an area and not knowing were the polling place was. I’ve lived in Deep Blue states for a lot of years, so voting didn’t seem to make much difference.

Now I’m back in WI and it’s a toss up state. So by mail in ballot this time so I guaranteed that I got my vote in and other family members as well. I made sure everyone registered for absentee and sent their ballots in the same week they arrived. This election is too important to trust everyone in the family will have time or remember to vot on Nov. 6.

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I live in Washington State so I have no choice but to use a ballot I received in the mail. However, this time I will be hand carrying my ballot to the drop box at my city hall instead of mailing it in. This election is too important to risk using the U.S. mail.

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In 2000 I lived in an area where the polling place happened to be a gay church. The election judges and I chit-chatted and joked amicably until they asked what ballot I wanted.

“Republican.”

They all stopped talking to me.

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Washington has been vote by mail for several years now. We don’t have an election day any more, we have election seasons. I don’t like it because it encourages voter apathy and allows fringe ballot measures easy passage in off-year elections.

Too easy to game the system.

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#2 with paper ballots. In a church.

In Michigan I used to vote in a fire station with the #1 machines.

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#1 They still have the old style levers here in Brooklyn. I try to be there right when they open at 6am. No lines, stress free day.

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You guys are great. Give yourselves an applause.

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Last time I saw #1 I was voting in PA – in the late 70s. Here in FL we use #2.

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@Freeman – that’s the machine we use in my district also.

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#2 and I always put in for the next day off from work so I can stay up late watching the results while drinking some suds.

2010 was a goodun !

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Early, and often.

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2

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@ Illustr8r,
We have to vote by mail now, but my wife say’s the same as you. She misses going to the polls

I don’t mind the mail in.

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I moved recently so this is my first election to vote in a new place. I really loved my old voting place I usually knew all the volunteers there and did see my neighbors. We used # 2.
I always hated voting in the booth it made me nervous. This time I mailed it in. I was able to go on the internet to check out the judges I was voting for so I didn’t have to remember names. I voted straight Republican if as far as I knew they weren’t a wife beater or pedophile, if they were only a crook I figured they’d fit right in for awhile until we could primary them out in the next election. Romney/Ryan 2012

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Just curious, if you vote by mail do you get something back that confirms your vote was processed. Who guarantees that government union mail carrier won’t lose that mail???

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I usually go down to the local fire station and sit at a dirty old table with the ballot and a black marker pen.
Mailed mine in early this year. Felt like I was in a hurry.

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And they DO check ID even though they know who I am. I’m glad they do.

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My lefty state of Washington has gone to all mail ballots, the better to steal elections. I always use the drop box at my county courthouse, since I believe that maximizes the chances of my vote actually counting.

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Living in the county in Alabama, we vote at the local volunteer fire dept.. After showing our PICTURE I.D.’s and verifying we are who we say, we receive a pen and a paper ballot within a privacy folder, sit down at what looks like their lunch tables, color in the appropriate boxes, then we feed the ballot into a little machine under the watchful eye of one of the minders. Then we get our “I voted” sticker, YAY!!

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I like going to the polls.
I don’t mind absentee voting, but you can’t beat the excitement of election day and seeing a big turnout.
At that point I don’t mind waiting in line.
Plus I live in Florida so maybe that is why there is a buzz in the air on election day.

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Booth with curtain

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Another from Washington State. I also walk my ballot to the “collection box” in the auditor’s office where they wait till I leave then write my name on the envelope so they can laugh at me When they open it on the 6th.

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Took “Stirrin the BS” advice, both wife and I went to early voting today. Here in Nevada the news reports record early voting for the first available day last Sat. Hope that’s a good sign.

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Virginia had #1.
Florida has #2.

Even with 11 State Amendments on the ballot (meaning multiple pages of the ballot) I’m going in at 7am, to avoid the lines…then spend the day driving folks to their polling places.

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I used to vote in person, now by mail because I want to be able to take my time filling out and make sure I have it 100% correct. With my work schedule I never know what hours I’ll be working, so for me voting by mail makes sure I can vote. I do miss going to the polls. My son will be voting for the first time, in person, this year. : )

Funny thing here in San Diego, CA (I know – feel sorry for me?) an interesting development in voting by mail for this election. I saw on one – ONLY ONE – newscast that because our ballot is longer this year, if you vote by mail you need to add extra postage ($.65) or as they said “your vote may not count.” When I received my ballot there was no indication anywhere, not even on the envelope, that extra postage was required. So had I not seen that newscast, I would have put one stamp on and thought I had voted. I told all of my Republican friends. Today when I dropped my ballot in my office’s out box, I noticed several other ballots, all with one stamp. But they’re all lefties so shhhhhhh…

I just hope this doesn’t come back and bite us in the end, can’t believe they’re letting this happen.

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I’m going to vote early. I saw the booth (with curtain) in the county building when I was there to pay my goverment rent (property taxes).

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Well, da fust time I vote, I goes to da licker store. I getz 2 haf-pints of bourbon fa free and that votes dun by the licker store owner.

Then da union bus pix me up an takes us sumwear else, where we drinks our bourbon and votes, again.

The union bus takes us back to da licker store and da man giv us $20 and 2 mo haf-pints a bourbon an a sammich. Then he passes out ballats what are already filled out, so we makes our mark and puts em in a envelope and give em back to him.

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2 in West Michigan…….

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#2…Texas

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No. 1…..but instead of a lever it has a big, red button at the bottom that says “vote”.
At that point you hear a lot of loud clicking sounds. Very mechanical.
I would hate No.2. It would feel like everybody can see who you are voting for. I’m old school and think that is private,unless you choose to tell people.

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We are disabled. If fact, mr sablegsd just got home today from a 2 week hospital stay.

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Took them to the post office last week in Southern Cal. Go Mitt!

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FWIW, CA has a website where you can verify that your ballot was received.

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With my WA ballot there is a stub you tear off after you vote with a number-and like @MerryPoppet there is a website to verify the status of your ballot.

I’m fine with mail in ballots for special circumstances…sick, elderly, military or out of state/country. I’m sure when I’m old and cranky I’ll appreciate mail in voting. Right now, I am able bodied and want to go to the polls in the rain with my fellow Americans (and libs).

This early voting is just crazy to me-what if you change your mind? Can I get my ballot back please? Stupid.

Thanks iOTWers for letting us know how the first Tuesday in November will be for you.

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