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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Oct 15, 2020 14:17:44 GMT -8
Got my ballot in the mail today. I'll fill it out tonight, and return it to my neighborhood dropoff box, 1/2 mile away, in the morning. No waiting in line 10 hours or more to vote, no having to drive 90 minutes to the one dropoff box in the county, like in Texas, no waiting in line on election day, hoping for clear weather so you won't get dumped on.
Vote by mail is safe, efficient and convenient. We are extremely lucky to have universal VBM in Oregon. Take advantage of that and vote!
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Post by beaverdude on Oct 16, 2020 6:10:02 GMT -8
Our ballots weren't in our mailbox. The USPS Informed Delivery service is a great tool as it emails you a list of the mail being delivered that day.
My first thought was here we go again (had to go through the hours of red tape to get replacement ballots), the 2016 election was a lot of work.
Fortunately our neighbors found our ballots in their mailbox and corrected the postman's error. They are still trying to locate their ballots.
I hope they have someone watching our local drop box this election. It was set on fire the last presidential election.
Finding out if the state received my ballot was a nightmare.
Standing in line and voting in person is much easier.
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Post by ag87 on Oct 16, 2020 6:28:36 GMT -8
I stood in line for 4 hours at the Lake Oswego middle school to vote in the 1992 general election. I love dropping my ballot off in the box.
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Post by mbabeav on Oct 16, 2020 9:08:29 GMT -8
All of our local drop boxes are inside local businesses (except for the one at the County Court House). Not going to mail mine, always drop box - but I sure miss going into the local grade school gym to vote on election day. Normally I wait until election day to vote and take my ballot in, but this year I will be very happy to get it done and over with!
All I can say is, regardless of the attempts to confuse, cry foul, intimidate, feel lazy or be turned off by the whole process, VOTE! About 16 years back we had a one state representative race that was decided by a difference of one vote per precinct.
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Post by spudbeaver on Oct 16, 2020 11:15:18 GMT -8
Vote early, and vote often!!
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Post by sagebrush on Oct 16, 2020 13:00:17 GMT -8
When I turned 21 in the middle of 1069, I was in a place where I could neither register to vote or vote in the November election. I started school winter term 1970, registered and have not missed an election since. I still remember, the late Doyle Johnson, my HS civics teacher, telling us seniors when we turned of age, it was our absolute duty and responsibility as a citizen, to VOTE. As a matter of fact, it was our October project, to pick a candidate/issue, national, state, local, write a paper, make a 5-minute oral presentation to the class and it better be good.(BTW, he was cool. Any kind of reasonable effort got you an A.)
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Post by spudbeaver on Oct 16, 2020 13:30:38 GMT -8
When I turned 21 in the middle of 1069, I was in a place where I could neither register to vote or vote in the November election. I started school winter term 1970, registered and have not missed an election since. I still remember, the late Doyle Johnson, my HS civics teacher, telling us seniors when we turned of age, it was our absolute duty and responsibility as a citizen, to VOTE. As a matter of fact, it was our October project, to pick a candidate/issue, national, state, local, write a paper, make a 5-minute oral presentation to the class and it better be good.(BTW, he was cool. Any kind of reasonable effort got you an A.) Wow! You’re older than Bob M Johnson! Fortunately, you lived through the Battle of Hastings! |
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Post by jefframp on Oct 16, 2020 18:30:25 GMT -8
Wow! You’re older than Bob M Johnson! Fortunately, you lived through the Battle of Hastings! Excuse me but I have a registered trademark of that line!  |
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Post by dK on Oct 17, 2020 14:09:23 GMT -8
When I turned 21 in the middle of 1069, I was in a place where I could neither register to vote or vote in the November election. I started school winter term 1970, registered and have not missed an election since. I still remember, the late Doyle Johnson, my HS civics teacher, telling us seniors when we turned of age, it was our absolute duty and responsibility as a citizen, to VOTE. As a matter of fact, it was our October project, to pick a candidate/issue, national, state, local, write a paper, make a 5-minute oral presentation to the class and it better be good.(BTW, he was cool. Any kind of reasonable effort got you an A.) Wow! You’re older than Bob M Johnson! Fortunately, you lived through the Battle of Hastings! Actually, he is not older than Bob M Johnson. I have met both of them. I am about the same age as Sage. I was also overseas in the Army before I could legally vote because I was under 21.
I was still overseas again the first time I could vote, but honestly didn't know how to do it.
When I got out of the service, I had served under a democrat and a republican regime and was so pissed off at both parties due the the Vietnam war, I registered as an independent. I still am registered as an independent. I have also voted in every election since.
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Post by mbabeav on Oct 17, 2020 15:09:44 GMT -8
I voted today, hope to see a lot of people post that in the next 2+ weeks.
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Post by lebaneaver on Oct 18, 2020 6:00:28 GMT -8
Wife and I dropped ours off at the Lebanon Justice Center on Friday.
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Post by jefframp on Oct 18, 2020 8:45:50 GMT -8
We mailed ours back on Thursday, the day after we got them.
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Post by Werebeaver on Oct 19, 2020 17:50:15 GMT -8
Dropped off my ballot at the County elections HQ today. Always a good feeling.  |
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Post by babs on Oct 20, 2020 6:50:32 GMT -8
My ballot has been submitted as well.
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Post by irimi on Oct 20, 2020 6:53:53 GMT -8
Just got my “Ballot Accepted” notification.
2016 taught us that anything can happen in an election. I’m not expecting a miracle, but a return to normalcy would be appreciated.
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