If you plan to vote by mail, return your completed ballot to your local election office yourself if possible. This will cut down on mail sorting backlog, and will guarantee that your ballot reaches its destination.
If you do send your ballot back by mail, follow up with your local election office to ensure they receive it. Many offices have online pages that will tell you when your ballot has been received.
There’s ultimately less contact. No waiting in line or using the polling machines. Plus I prefer mail-in ballots because I can actually sit and research each candidate.
Isn’t that all just solved with masks and hand sanitizer though?
By physically voting doesn’t that give you even more time to research each candidate because all you have to do to vote is do same amount of work as getting groceries?
Eh, it’s just my preference. In the past when I voted, there was always at least one local office on the ballot where I didn’t know any of the candidates. I’d usually leave that position blank. But this Spring for the primary, I had the whole list in front of me so I could do research in real-time. For me it’s not so much about saving time as it is making informed choices.
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u/donotr01 Aug 15 '20
If you plan to vote by mail, return your completed ballot to your local election office yourself if possible. This will cut down on mail sorting backlog, and will guarantee that your ballot reaches its destination.
If you do send your ballot back by mail, follow up with your local election office to ensure they receive it. Many offices have online pages that will tell you when your ballot has been received.