Early Voting

[malkin]

Early voting is brilliant!
Completely saturated, over-saturated, filled to the gills, sick and tired of political everything, having voted, I am now exempt from all of it and will ignore everything, even the results.

[luvmyguys]

+1000

I plan to vote this week and join you in ignoring everything.

[thekarens]

I'm also voting this week. It's a nightmare to vote on election day.

[Blueberry]

I wish I could ignore it. We are being inundated. TV, mail, radio, and now even Hulu, Pandora, and online streaming shows from the networks. Plus the door to door people who are rallying to get out the vote for their candidate, and the never-ending telephone calls on my unlisted cell phone. I'm not even safe in my house with all devices off!

It's to the point where I've been sorely tempted to tally the interruptions in my life and vote for the guy/gal in each race who has annoyed me the least (there's one who is a PRIME offender). I believe in democracy, and I would never do that. But I'm sick and flipping tired of the intrusions into my life.

[OakLeaf]

We have a phone line that's a legacy of dial-up internet, and now it's the number we give out whenever a business or nonprofit asks for our number, but it's not a "real" number and we don't answer it, the ringer is turned off, there's an answering machine in case it's something real like a bank trying to resolve a suspicious transaction. I've never been so glad for that line as I have in the past few weeks.

I don't think voting early will stop the spam. I could've done it a couple of weeks ago, I may not get around to it until election day ... I never planned to vote by mail, so the choice is trying to find the time to vote on a trip into town, vs a nice five-mile round trip walk on election day (provided the weather isn't so crummy that we drive instead ).

[goldfinch]

We have vote by mail only. All signed, sealed and delivered. Glad to be done. I'll also be glad when politics fades from our morning breakfast group.

[Koronin]

First day of in-person early voting started here on Oct 18th and we were there that day to vote. Of course AFTER I vote I start getting tons of junk in the mail. UGH! I already voted don't send me the junk now, esp if you couldn't be bothered to send it before early voting started. I'm tired of the ads as well. The worst part is I'm in NC so we aren't getting hit that hard with ads like people in Ohio are. Most of my family is in Ohio and they are much more sick and tired of it. My mom told me she had one entire set of ads that were nothing but political ads.