Fingers crossed it goes ok.

Hotline duty yesterday was very quiet. No early voting tomorrow, so I'm expecting it to be mostly, "where do I vote?" questions.

Unfortunately, one of the things we're struggling with are people whose absentee ballots never arrived. Their choice, at this point, is to vote on election day or skip it - unless their ballot arrives and they can get it postmarked tomorrow. It's gut-wrenching to tell someone their only real option to ensure their votes are counted is to come home from Florida, NY, or wherever they are, to vote in person. There are a few who are doing that, but not everyone can.

mail is getting worse and worse.

Yet again I have to deal with another amazon package that said it was delivered through usps and wasn't. I have one of those locked things for a bunch of neighbors so postal person either put in wrong place or didn't do it.

There are some instances of the BOE mailing out ballots late. But, generally, it is the post office.

Take care.

It's at least as much self-preservation as it is altruism.

was moving due to safety concerns of the secret service ?
Moving to Rankin/ or Ranklin ?
I will go look for the post

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Different location - the Carrie Blast Furnaces (the address is Pittsburgh, likely a quirk of zip codes). It's a hair farther from us, but not enough to worry about.

It had moved before I found out about it - and I'm actually excited about the location. I'm working on a BFA in photography, and from the website there's a lot to photograph there!

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from another Ohioan. I hope all goes smoothly.

And thank you!

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I do what I can. I'm not a door-knocker, or a phone banker. But I can answer calls, write postcards, and work on election day. So I do. If we all kick in and do what we can, we'll get there!

Stay safe!

. . .and if you have any stories to tell later, we'd love to hear/read them.

Me, I'm a poll worker (NY), so Tuesday begins for me getting to the site by 5:00 AM to set up for opening at 6 AM, and it won't end until closing at 9 PM, when we then have to close up shop according to protocol, call in our results, and turn in equipment.
Odds are, I will not be home until maybe midnight; then I'm off to bed to sleep for about 10 hours. No TV, no social media, etc.

Our polls close at 7:30 PM. But otherwise a similar schedule.

I probably won't be able to resist staying up a bit longer, hoping there is an early decision.

I won't get back home until about 6:00pm PST on Tuesday.

I hope to go to bed with a smile on my face later that night. I remember 2008. This sort of feels a little like that moment.

Hopefully, I will be smiling all month.

But it does feel more hopeful than 2016. (I was not one of those on the Clinton high, so I was pretty pessimistic going into election day.)

I was an election judge for one election, up at 4:30am, in bed at 11pm. It wiped me out. I don't know how I worked the next day.

Please prepare to have food - maybe some PBJs or other sandwiches, prepare to drink water, give yourself breaks, don't overdo the coffee. Get sleep before hand.

Tuesday is going to be a long, crazy day.

Thank you for what you do. I think election workers are the backbone of our democracy.

The food this year is an interesting issue. People will bring food to share. But I have a colonoscopy on Friday, so Tuesday is the first day of a restricted diet. I'm probably just going to grab some yogurt to take with me.

As for sleep - my body is extremely tolerant of irregular sleep schedules. After decades of getting very little sleep (5-7 hours a night most nights), I am now retired and get more sleep than I ever have - except when I have early AM commitments. Unfortunately, this semester my classes start at 7:45 AM, so I've gotten to test adapting to irregular sleep schedules - and am still able to manage it. And . . . as to sleep beforehand . . . with the Harris rally in Pittsburgh tomorrow night, not much chance! It's scheduled to run until 10 PM, so even if I magically transport from the rally to the parking lot, and there are no traffic jams, it will be midnight before I get home.

If you've been doing this for 20 yrs, my hat is off to you . When I did it, I met many veterans. I'm just hoping we can pass the baton to a younger generation that will care as much as we do

for doing this. I don't know how anybody gets up at these crazy hours like 4:30 or 6:30, but I know it's necessary because someone here told me polls open at 6:30 a.m. This person actually gets there at 6:30 a.m. to vote.

Best of Luck! I have no doubt you'll do great!

have fun at kamala's rally

Big hug from across the pond. I got to vote via email. WV does few things right, but they make it very easy for their citizens abroad or absentee to vote.

Thank you and enjoy the rally.

It is the county I work in, not the one I live in so I will be outside. I am thinking it will not be horridly crowded due to massive early vote.

Thank you thank you thank you!
Kick ass!

I'm so freaking nervous for Ohio. Thank you for your work!

Thank you for all that you are doing!!!