3 Days of Early Voting for Oklahoma starts on Thursday!
Oklahoma: Oct 29 – 31
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Louisiana & Pennsylvania, tomorrow is your last day to vote early!
Louisiana: Oct 16 – 27 (last day is Tuesday)
Pennsylvania: Sept 14 – Oct 27 (last day is Tuesday)
check your local resources for details
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Tennessee, Thursday is your last day to vote early
Tennessee: Oct 14 – 29 (last day is Thursday)
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Now we’re getting to the last few days of voting in a couple of states:
Last day to vote is TUESDAY
Louisiana: Oct 16 – 27 (last day is Tuesday)
Pennsylvania: Sept 14 – Oct 27 (last day is Tuesday)
Last day to vote is THURSDAY
Tennessee: Oct 14 – 29 (last day is Thursday)
Last day to vote is FRIDAY
Arizona: Oct 7 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Georgia: Oct 12 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Maine: Oct 5 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Massachusetts: Oct 17 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Montana: Oct 2 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Nevada: Oct 17 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Texas: Oct 13 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Utah: Oct 20 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Last day to vote is SATURDAY
North Carolina: Oct 15 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
New Mexico: Oct 1 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
Oklahoma: Oct 29 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
Virginia: Sept 18 – Oct 31 (last day is Saturday)
West Virginia: Oct 21 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
Last day to vote is SUNDAY
Florida: Oct 10 – Nov 1 (last day is Sunday)
New York: Oct 24 – Nov 1 (last day is Sunday)
Wisconsin: Oct 20 – Nov 1 (last day is Sunday)
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Early Voting Dates:
Alaska: Oct 19 – Nov 2
Arizona: Oct 7 – Oct 30
Arkansas: Oct 19, 2020 – Nov 2 (only if unable to vote on election day)
*California: Oct 5 – Nov 2
Colorado: Oct 19 – Nov 2
Florida: Oct 19 – Nov 1
Georgia: Oct 12 – 30
Hawaii: Oct 20 – Nov 2
Idaho: ?
Illinois: Sept 24 – Nov 2
Indiana: Oct 6 – Nov 2
Iowa: Oct 5 – Nov 2
Kansas: Oct 14 – Nov 2
Kentucky: Oct 13 – Nov 2
Louisiana: Oct 16 – Oct 27
Maine: Oct 5 – 30
Maryland: Oct 26 – Nov 2
Massachusetts: Oct 17 – 30
Michigan: Sept 24 – Nov 2
Minnesota: Sept 18 – Nov 2
Montana – Oct 2 – 30
Nebraska: Oct 5 – Nov 2
Nevada: October 17 – 30
New Mexico: Oct 6 – 31
New York: Oct 24 – Nov 1
North Carolina: Oct 15 – 31
North Dakota: Oct 19 – Nov 2
Ohio: Oct 6 – Nov 2
Pennsylvania: Sept 14 – Oct 27
Rhode Island: Oct 14 – Nov 2
South Carolina: Oct 5 – Nov 2
South Dakota: Sept 18 – Nov 2
Tennessee: Oct 14 – 29
Texas: Oct 13 – Oct 30
Utah: Oct 20 – 30
Vermont: Sept 21 – Nov 2
Virginia: Sept 18 – Oct 31
Washington: Oct 16 – Nov 2
West Virginia: Oct 21 – 31
Wisconsin: Oct 20 – Nov 1
Wyoming: Sept 18 – Nov 2
Always check your state and county websites for specific information about voting times and voting locations.
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* Voting absentee in person (a bit of an oxymoron) started on September 9 in Alabama
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NO EARLY VOTING
Missouri does not offer an early voting period. If you will be unable to vote in person on Election Day, you can request an absentee ballot/mail-in ballot by mail or by visiting your local election office – beginning on Sept 22.
Mississippi does not offer early voting. In Mississippi, the only “early” votes are absentee ballots that are available beginning 45 days before an election, but only for specific excused reasons including the voters knowing that they’ll be out of their home county on Election Day or disability or voters past age 65. College students and members of the armed forces can often vote absentee ballots.
Remember, if you vote – in person or drop it off or put it in the mail – stop by and post a comment in the I Voted post. It’s in the sidebar on computers and in the hamburger menu on mobile.
If you know the first date for early voting, and your state isn’t on one of these lists yet, please let me know in the comments.
SiubhanDuinne
Today is Oct 26, so MD can now go in the title list!
Edmund Dantes
I am sorry but if there are strict reason required to vote absentee rules, there is no way that age alone as a category is constitutional.
I know the courts (SCOTUS denied appeal leaving circuit ruling in tact) recently ruled it was In Texas or something place when someone sued saying it was discriminatory to allow over 65 the excuse but not anyone else.
It shouldn’t be allowed. I am of course for anything to make voting easier. But preferring one age group over another should not be allowed here. Everyone should have the right to absentee voting.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
59 million people have voted.
40 million by mail.
19 million in person.
Source.
A Ghost to Most
Being able to check online if/when your ballot has been counted is something that every state should have. Just another item for the list.
psycholinguist
Great site to follow the early voting action state by state. The numbers this year are overwhelming.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Oops, I stared editing this over the weekend and never got back to it! Maryland is now where it should be.
Richard Guhl
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: And, for the states that provide data about party affiliation of the 27 million votes cast, 49% have been for Democrats, 28% for Republicans, and the remainder are Independents (who, according to polling, are breaking for Biden).
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl: I noticed! That was quick!
Thank you so much for your hard work compiling these state-by-state details, GOTV initiatives, and so much more. Between you on the “what can I do?” front and DougJ with the fundraising links, Balloon Juice is a seriously formidable force in this year’s election.
Scout211
A good lookup tool for all states:
https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/
You may have posted this link before but it’s a helpful tool.
RedDirtGirl
Voted early in NY on Saturday. Just a two hour wait. I was lucky to live close by so I ran home to pee half way through (I drink a lot of water!) In the places with all day lines, are porto-potties made available to voters?
rikyrah
I love these posts.
Spanky
Will vote early and in person here in MD probably tomorrow. Reports are that today it is, predictably, crowded.
Betty Cracker
Our county’s election supervisor has a portal where you can check the status of your vote. The mister and I voted in person because our mail-in ballots were defective. We figured it might take time to tally our votes because of that, but it didn’t — we were counted!
ArchTeryx
Voted early in Saratoga County, New York. It was a full 3.5 hour wait – not, for once, because of any perfidy, but because the brand new early voting program in the state was just utterly unprepared for the tsunami that washed over the early voting polls. And the mood in my very suburban line was almost universal – throw that bum Trump out.
It’s New York, so we don’t really “count” but there’s hope that maybe our long-term incumbent Republican State Senator, Jim Tedesco, will be washed away in an anti-R wave. Almost happened in 2018. Maybe it will happen this year.
WaterGirl
Now we’re getting to the last few days of voting in a couple of states:
Last day to vote is TUESDAY
Louisiana: Oct 16 – 27 (last day is Tuesday)
Pennsylvania: Sept 14 – Oct 27 (last day is Tuesday)
Last day to vote is THURSDAY
Tennessee: Oct 14 – 29 (last day is Thursday)
Last day to vote is FRIDAY
Arizona: Oct 7 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Georgia: Oct 12 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Maine: Oct 5 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Massachusetts: Oct 17 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Montana: Oct 2 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Nevada: Oct 17 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Texas: Oct 13 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Utah: Oct 20 – 30 (last day is Friday)
Last day to vote is SATURDAY
North Carolina: Oct 15 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
New Mexico: Oct 1 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
Oklahoma: Oct 29 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
Virginia: Sept 18 – Oct 31 (last day is Saturday)
West Virginia: Oct 21 – 31 (last day is Saturday)
Last day to vote is SUNDAY
Florida: Oct 10 – Nov 1 (last day is Sunday)
New York: Oct 24 – Nov 1 (last day is Sunday)
Wisconsin: Oct 20 – Nov 1 (last day is Sunday)
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Yay!
WaterGirl
Is anyone from New Jersey? I couldn’t find clear information about voting in New Jersey.
Danielx
Voted in Indiana last Wednesday, in and out in a half hour. Was a young woman in front of me in line with violet colored hair and wearing rainbow socks and I thought “odds are that’s not a Trump voter”.
Geeno
Went to vote Saturday in NY – the line was crazy, so I came back Sunday first thing and the family and I got through fairly quickly.
DropDminus
Anecdata from PA. Did the in person absentee drop off here in Northern Allegheny county (the red/purple part of the county) on Saturday. Both parties had swag tents set up out the drop off area. The people coming out were stopping at the team blue tents or taking pictures with Biden Harris cutouts at a 5or 6 to 1 ratio compared to the trump tent. Talked to one of the volunteers who said it was like that all day.
mad citizen
@Danielx: Let’s hope not! My wife and me voted in Noblesville (Indiana) two weeks ago today and I try to avoid the guessing who they are voting for game (was SO wrong last time in Fishers), but sometimes you can’t help yourself based on something about the person. As another jackal said one day, one can’t imagine that all these people are coming out because they liked what they’ve seen from you know who.
The vote counter on ElectProject is now over 60 million. I wonder if it’s behind because a lot of places might not have been adding and reporting over the weekend. Today might be a big counting day from all the Friday and Saturday voting.
If 80 million vote early that still leaves another 70 or more on Nov. 3.
Dupe1970
@Betty Cracker: Wish I had that in Texas.
Snarki, child of Loki
Question to the experts:
if you fill in all the ‘bubbles’ correctly, then write in a blank part of the ballot:
FUCK TRUMP UP THE ASS WITH A CHAINSAW!
would that be a ‘spoiled ballot’?
gene108
@WaterGirl:
NJ sent everyone mail-in ballots to everyone by early October. You can either mail it back, postage already paid, or drop it in one of the five drop boxes each county has, or bring it to the board of elections.
Mail-in ballots will be start being counted 10 days prior to the election.
Though no actual in-person early voting, the mail-in ballots allow people to vote early.
Omnes Omnibus
@Snarki, child of Loki: Don’t chance it. Let the bubbles do the talking.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Snarki, child of Loki: Check the rules for your state.
No stray marks in my state. I washed my hands before filling it out and treated it like surgery.
WaterGirl
@gene108: thank you!
Matt McIrvin
@Dupe1970: In Texas it may or may not be available county-by-county (the state does it for overseas/military voters only, by law). What county are you in?
ArchTeryx
@Snarki, child of Loki: Most of the time yes, though the rules can vary by state. I let my bubbles do the talking on the ballot itself and save the FUCK TRUMP WITH A RUSTY CHAINSAW for social media. More of an audience that way anyway.
Nicole
Voted this morning (I put it in the thread, too), in Harlem. Got in line about 15 minutes before the polls opened and waited about an hour to get in. The poll workers were great; strolling up and down the line looking for people with walkers, so they could let them move to the front of the line. Seeing as how my back was aching from standing half an hour in and I’m in pretty good shape, I really appreciated seeing how thoughtful they were.
One poll worker was so zealous about it she chased down a woman with a walker passing by the line, shouting at her, “Ma’am! Ma’am! You don’t have to go to the back of the line! Ma’am!” The woman, initially unaware she was the one being shouted at, finally realized it, and turned around to shout back, “I already voted on Saturday!” Aww…. I guess the poll worker just couldn’t figure out any other reason for why any elderly person would be out on the streets in the rain before sunrise. :)
For any of my fellow NY’ers who haven’t voted yet- Senator Warren asked that we vote on the Working Families’ line for Biden/Harris, as it’ll keep them a viable political party. Let’s not disappoint Senator Warren.
The Moar You Know
@Snarki, child of Loki: Sure is in CA.
Peej01
I voted early on Wednesday. It took 45 minutes… including filling out the ballot. I got pulled out of the line…gray hair and fat works in this case (would that have been the same at the DMV). I’m in NE-02 so my vote for Biden/Harris may actually mean something this time around. I moved from Maryland where I was one Democratic vote among multitudes.
jonas
The early voting line in my CNY district was several hours long all day Saturday, so we decided to come back later in the week at an early morning or late evening time when the line should be shorter. This very purple district went hard for Trump in 16, but turned out it’s uber-Trumpy congresswoman in the 18 wave. If that line is any sign of things to come, Rs are in a lot of trouble.
Roger Moore
I voted early in person on Sunday. It was the second day any early polling places were open in LA County, and I got there just after opening. There seemed to be a trickle of people going through, which might not be bad for Sunday morning. I have seen a bunch of people dropping their ballots in ballot drop boxes, so I think that is going to be the preferred early voting approach here in California.
Matt McIrvin
@Nicole: AOC has been appearing in Twitter ads promoting voting for Biden/Harris on the WFP line. New York fusion voting is an alien thing to me, but I thought it was interesting.
Omnes Omnibus
I posted this in a thread on Saturday (I have made one minor correction): I voted today. I went to the Madison City Hall, and there were only three people in front of me. As I was waiting, I chatted with the poll worker who was managing that part of the line. She told me that turn out at that location (there are 12 others in Madison) was huge. Apparently, the line had died down just a few minutes before I arrived, so I had a really short wait. Every other election I have voted in in Madison was done on paper ballots that were fed into a scantron machine. This time, due to Covid, we voted on a machine that then printed out a paper ballot. I got to verify my choices three times, and then I got to see my choices printed out on the actual ballot. I then went to another station, put it in an envelope, sealed it, and signed it. After that, poll worker countersigned the enveloped, and I put it an old fashioned lock box. I thanked all the poll workers and got my sticker. Then I went and bought
ice creamfrozen custard.dmsilev
@Roger Moore: I did the dropbox thing a week or two ago. A real official box, not one of those fake ones that the state GOP has been trying to push.
Another Scott
re: the discussion downstairs about “re-election”:
Every vote matters. The future depends on it.
VOTE!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Matt McIrvin
I was banging the drum over the weekend about how it was the last days for weekend voting in Massachusetts (early voting ends Friday–can’t vote in person until Election Day if you haven’t done it by close of polls then).
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Much clearer, this version.
eric
@Matt McIrvin: was not crowded in brookline on saturday. though, i overheard the workers saying it had been busy during the week. procrastination for the win.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: I thought you would approve.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
You know, the way Trump harping both Obama, Biden and Harris about their places of birth (like who in the heck is going to fake claiming they were born in Scranton and Oakland?), it’s always projection with Trump. So want to bet that Trump falsified his place of birth?
geg6
@DropDminus:
This is really encouraging. It is the redder part of the county, so it’s good to have on the ground reports. And hopefully, it will make up for the 30K or so Pittsburgh voters who got the wrong ballots from the Trumpy printing company and who are now being targeted by the GOP to have their votes on the correct ballots only be counted as provisional. Fuckers simply won’t stop with the suppression.
Aleta
germy
germy
Martin
Smoke is a shitty way to wake up. Trabuco canyon on fire. Again. I’m straight downwind of it. Not in danger.
patrick II
At the beginning of the bubble NBA season most NBA teams promised their arenas would be turned into polling places. It is in fact happening. Here is a list of NBA stadiums and type of polling place. Some are early voting locations and are open now. I am not clear on the difference between a polling place and a voting center.
Some have been open for early voting. Orlando has sixty voting booths. Here is a story about that.
Congratulations to the NBA.
Taken4Granite
In New Hampshire the window for registering to vote ahead of the election is now closed, but you can still register at the polling site if you vote in person on Election Day.
New Hampshire also does not have early voting, and an excuse is required to vote absentee, but this year fear of COVID is considered an excuse to vote absentee. (Which I have already done, and the Secretary of State’s website confirms that my ballot has been received by the Town Clerk.) It’s probably too late to request an absentee ballot by mail. You may be able to request one in person at your Town Clerk’s office if you are already registered, and at least at my Town Hall there is a place provided where you can fill out that ballot and return it to the Town Clerk before you leave, but I am not sure if they are still allowing absentee ballot requests.
Baud
@germy:
Socialism isn’t evil like fascism. If they started asking about Trump’s accusation that we’re communists, then maybe the analogy makes more sense.
Ken
@Martin: What’s keeping you safe? “Downwind” and “fire” is usually a bad thing.
japa21
@patrick II: Polling place is precinct. Voting center is where you can vote and covers several precincts.
ETA: Almost all early voting is done at voting centers.
Calouste
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Maybe not falsified, but I bet he wishes he was born in Manhattan instead of Queens.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: frivolous politicians dancing? I’m sure I just missed Peg’s column on it, on account of the paywall
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgs_iVwF74
Uncle Jeffy
@germy: Trump’s “dancing” should earn him a shot on “Dancing With the Stars” along with the Texas politician who almost dropped his partner on her head (Tom DeLay)
patrick II
@japa21:
Thank you.
KenK
As I posted in the “I Voted” thread on Saturday, my wife and I voted Saturday in Amherst, NY. It was almost like a big game atmosphere; the folks were there for a reason and weren’t going to let a wait deter them.
At (about) hour intervals, the BoE would send a poll worker out to work the lines to thank us for being there and to be patient. I think he set-up was okay, just that the poll was overwhelmed by the turnout. To help pass the time while in line, we were “politicked” by some candidates. The local office Republican candidates are just as big of assholes as their national counterparts.
The only thin we’ll do differently next election is to request mail ballots, fill them out at home, then drop off at polling site. I do like the idea of early voting.
Shalimar
Note for Florida, check voting days for your county/polling location. Counties are not required to be open for all days, and many of our not-racist-at-all counties do not have voting on the Sunday before the election because they want to stop black voters from going from their churches directly to the polls.
mad citizen
@Baud: But trump/republicans paint socialism as equivalent to fascism. It’s a dog whistle of some kind. I am SO tired of this trope, and was really pissed off when Norah O’Donnell used the word to Kamala Harris on 60 minutes.
I’ve had to remind myself what socialism is: “a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.”
Our side should talk about how large the G sector is in our economy, and how so much of our government uses the (beloved) private sector and market concepts to accomplish their missions. So No, No Socialism. No one is taking over your business/farm etc.
Mike in DC
Voted early in MD today. College Park, UMD campus. It moved smoothly and quickly and there were plenty of poll workers. I have no idea how it’s going in other parts of the state like Baltimore, but it’s promising. There was decent turnout but not much of a line.
smedley the uncertain
I voted early in WNY! Got the sticker to prove it.
Cheers
Brachiator
I just voted at a Los Angeles County voting center about 30 minutes ago. Not the same place I went for the primary, and I used Google maps for directions to the building. Not very crowded at all and had help using the electronic voting machine. I did not want to drop off my ballot in a voting box to reduce the chance for mischief.
I took time to review all the stupid ballot propositions and read up on the people running for judges of the Superior Court.
But now I can relax a bit.
It felt good to vote for Biden and Harris. In California this mainly adds to the popular vote total, but it still felt good. It was an affirmative vote, not just voting for the Democrats.
Hdaman
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I voted in person in Virginia Hour and a half wait.