Just curious since it seems so much easier and less stressful during any election cycle to fill out a form and mail it in during your free time.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I get this question a lot, since my wife and I always vote in person. The place where we vote is right around the corner from us, a 2 minute walk. We go mid morning and there’s never a line. It’s just more fun for us, kind of a tradition. The same poll workers have been there for several years and it’s always nice to see them.

    As microscopically unimportant as our two votes are in the big picture, they are still important to us.

    If I still lived in some of the places I did in the past, I would definitely mail it in. Those places always had a long wait.

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      18 hours ago

      oh, cool.

      that makes sense.

      i’ve usually lived in busier places, so there was always long lines and just everything was a mess.

      and I’ve never lived close, so it was always a chore to get there in the first place.

      nice!

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      16 hours ago

      Every vote is important.

      “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas