Voting Plan

[owlmoose]

My preference is to vote in the morning, before work. There are two main reasons I have this habit. 1) It gets voting out of the way, so I don't have to worry about getting held up late at work or in traffic. 2) Then I get to wear my "I voted" sticker all day. It is no secret that the "I voted" sticker is one of my favorite parts of elections. I had to vote absentee in my first general election (1992 -- I was a sophomore in college and didn't want to change my voter registration to Pennsylvania), and I was so happy that my packet included a sticker. But the packets in San Francisco don't, and I'd be sad not to get one.

Anyway, so tomorrow I'll get up on the early side, go vote, get some breakfast, and go to work. I have enough going on that I can easily work a full day, so that's what I plan to do. Better to have work to focus on as long as it's too early to get any results. I'll probably get home around 6 or 7pm, just in time to park myself in front of the TV and start absorbing my multi-screen experience: TV, Twitter, maybe the 538 liveblog, probably Slack. And then... we wait.

Somehow all of my posts in November so far have been about the election. Given how deeply embedded it is in my mind, and pretty much everyone else's I know, I suppose its not surprising. Still, I hope I can start putting other things at the front of my attention stack soon.

Comments

[satsuma]

I have a lot of friends who are from delaware (which is very, very, blue) but are going to college in PA and the “but PA is a swing state, make your vote count!” is so heavily ingrained that I almost yelled at you for not switching your voter regestration for an election twenty five years old 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’ll be voting I’n the afternoon, I’m catching a ride to the polls with my parents and my moms shift ends st three. Hopefully we’ll beat the post work rush there, but the lines in my district are usually pretty good (sufficient # of polling places, not low turnout, thankfully)

I’m considering taking & posting a selfie with my sticker from the primaries right after I get up though, just to remind everyone of what day it is

[owlmoose]

:) California wasn't at all solid blue in 1992 (the transition from swing state was actually just starting around then), and I wanted to be able to vote for the state propositions. And I also needed to keep my California residency in case I ever wanted to go to grad school. But if I were a college student in PA NOW, you bet i'd change my voter registration for the duration.

Same here with having enough polling precincts that there are rarely lines. The only time I remember standing in a line of any length was 2008, when I needed to arrive just as the polls opened. The mood was really upbeat that day. I wonder how it will be tomorrow.

[satsuma]

yeah California has a lot of interesting propositions, and the state's so big that they make a pretty big impact on the country when they pass so that's totally legit (as is wanting to not pay oodles for grad school)

Well we've already confirmed a failure to take back the senate (which was a long shot, admittedly) but the house is still looking pretty good. So hopefully we'll still be feeling upbeat tomorrow :)