First he delayed things by suing to get on the ballot. Then, after he won that suit and ballots were ready to be printed, he sued again to get off the ballot. This meant weeks of delays.

Enough posting, I'm off to the drop box, less than 2 miles from here.

Kamala's up two to nothing according to my best confirmed information.

as the American Independent party candidate- although I doubt he remembers. Or has any clue as to what that party stands for

I can hardly wait!!

I dropped my 2016 ballot off at the library drop off box in the morning a few days before the election, & women were sashaying up to the box, cheering as we dropped our ballots in, slapping each other's palms as we passed. We remember the sting of winning the count but not the title. And now? We feel like kicking some maga ass.

I sent an email to my local election board to make sure I knew when they were sending them and when to expect it.

Then the check your ballot link I forget the address but I can post it for people who can check to make sure they are registered.

Actually I can't do that right now maybe someone else can.

elections-- that far too many skip over. I'm sure like me, that you don't want book banners making decisions, nor climate deniers/vaxx conspiracy theory types making health or other development policy decisions for your city/county.

I say this, as I am contemplating spending several hours trying to research some of these people for my ballot, given some of this info is not that easy to obtain. For that reason, I fear the amount of our very long ballot that many may just leave blank, or subject to a coin flip. I have no idea what yours is like, but the Voter's "Bluebook" was 96 pages--received a week ago and there is another 25-page addendum I just pulled from my mailbox. That covers the ballot initiatives, at least. Presumedly my mail ballot is coming shortly. October 11 is supposedly mail day but some years I've received it earlier.

Never a more important election. Never more challenge to "getting it ALL right."

One of them is a former student at the high school, a young impressive man in his early 20's, a son of Indian immigrants.

No weirdo book burning Taliban like Bible bangers are on our School Board.

I didn't really research the County Commissioners at all to be perfectly honest. I just voted straight Democratic.

not universal.

I have voted for questionable candidates because they are Democrats. The most recent example was Robert Menendez who's now gone.

The worst Democrat is better than the best Republican.

I had a couple of progressive voter guides in mind, and we used those guides to help with some of the judicial races and ballot measures. The major contests were pretty straightforward - the House and Senate races were one Democrat and one Republican (they aren't always, as the top two vote-getters from the primary advance to the general election here, regardless of party). There were several candidates in the presidential contest, but of course there was no contest regarding who got our votes. We completed the ballots on Friday evening and dropped them off Saturday morning. We received text notifications that our ballots had been received.

I know that votes here in California often take a long time to tabulate, and that's frustrating, but they certainly make the actual process of voting as easy as it could possibly be. I know there are plenty of other places that make voting easy, but if a state this large and diverse can do that, any other state should be capable - which says a lot about the depth and breadth of the voter suppression activities happening in large parts of this country. It must be terrifying to the GQP to think about the fact that if they made voting as easy in Texas as they do in California, Texas would probably not even be a purple state, it would be reliably blue.

Hope it comes soon.

Early voting doesn’t start till Oct 21. The conspiracy theory of illegal migrants voting runs strong here. My congressman voted against the continuing resolution because the Save Act wasn’t included.

The Save Act would make it illegal for a non-citizen to vote. It’s already against the law. Plus our state requires a birth certificate to get a drivers license, which is your ID to vote.

Still, he voted to shut down the government during prime hurricane season because he’s either stupid or needed a political win for his stupid base.