if possible, vote in person

[kimmer]

Oh, and I did find out that if I wasn't honest, I could vote via absentee ballot in my current state -- as long as I don't tell them I own a house there and have moved by the election date. Whatever.

[Xairbusdriver]

I think Jon was trying (again?!) to make a fuedal attempt at humor. Actually, I don't think Kimmer has made a public notice of her upcoming move, so I suppose we need to give him a bit of slack. I'm sure he meant well.

Frankly (you remember him, right... Surly's sister, I think...), I was wondering why we don't have a new thread about the travails of cross-country moves. I've watch dozens of far less interesting topics on Vblogs in the last few months!

[gunug]

We can get the ballots in the mail and then drop them in a dropbox at the courthouse downtown!

[jchuzi]

After much thought, my wife and I have decided to avail ourselves of the opportunity to vote early. In New York State, this option extends from Oct. 24 to Nov. 1 and, in our area, there are five locations to choose from. We had contemplated voting by mail, but we don't want to contribute to the burden of an already-overloaded post office. Naturally, we will wear masks and observe social distancing.

[Xairbusdriver]

We'll be doing the same. While my wife and I can vote by mail since we are both over 65 (one of the requirements for "Absentee" voting in TN), our GD obviously can't use that age option. While the State wisely allowed using the pandemic as a reason in the Primaries, they have decided that the virus has 'disappeared' and we can 'return to normal'. Who needs science with only 200,000 deaths? So our GD and my wife and I will all vote early which had much smaller crowds in the Primary, and will again in the General.

The USPS claims they can easily handle 500 million mail in ballots since that is about half what they handle every day. OTOH, my last order of meds took much longer than normal by sitting in the next to last facility over a week. That facility is less than 30 miles from our house. The shipment which usually takes 4-5 days, took over 2 weeks.

[Xairbusdriver]

Completed!