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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 205379" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I live in Oregon, and all of our elections are held by mail. We started that about 8 years ago. You <em>can</em> go down to the polls with your ballot on election day, but they are harder to find. We get a paper ballot to be marked in ink in the mail two Saturdays before the election, and we mail inside a secrecy envelope inside a signed mailing envelope that they can check against your signature. Your secrecy envelope is opened on election day. As I recall, it started with a grass roots movement by people who signed up for absentee ballots. It got to the point that about half of the registered voters were getting absentee ballots to mail in, and the legislature presented a bill to a vote by the people that everyone would vote by mail. It was a very popular idea and passed overwhelmingly. </p><p></p><p>I think that we are the only state that purposely holds our elections this way. What about your state? Do you vote by absentee ballot so that you don't have to stand in line all day? Do you have an election day tradition?</p><p></p><p>I voted on Saturday. husband and I sat down and looked at the voter pamphlets and looked online at sources we were comfortable with and voted together. I also feel like I am doing something for the environment, because the candidates will know <em>that</em> I voted (not who or what I voted for) from updated rolls, so we immediately start getting less and less campaign junk mail in the box. Now, if I could just figure out how to stop the junk e-mails...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 205379, member: 99"] I live in Oregon, and all of our elections are held by mail. We started that about 8 years ago. You [i]can[/i] go down to the polls with your ballot on election day, but they are harder to find. We get a paper ballot to be marked in ink in the mail two Saturdays before the election, and we mail inside a secrecy envelope inside a signed mailing envelope that they can check against your signature. Your secrecy envelope is opened on election day. As I recall, it started with a grass roots movement by people who signed up for absentee ballots. It got to the point that about half of the registered voters were getting absentee ballots to mail in, and the legislature presented a bill to a vote by the people that everyone would vote by mail. It was a very popular idea and passed overwhelmingly. I think that we are the only state that purposely holds our elections this way. What about your state? Do you vote by absentee ballot so that you don't have to stand in line all day? Do you have an election day tradition? I voted on Saturday. husband and I sat down and looked at the voter pamphlets and looked online at sources we were comfortable with and voted together. I also feel like I am doing something for the environment, because the candidates will know [i]that[/i] I voted (not who or what I voted for) from updated rolls, so we immediately start getting less and less campaign junk mail in the box. Now, if I could just figure out how to stop the junk e-mails... [/QUOTE]
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