It's infuriating the Dems didn't find someone else to run there. Like way to punt 10% equity on a seat that should be 100% blue morons.

OK so I have to make an admission. I am in my early 40s, I live in a blue state that was ~3% from going red 2 years ago, and I have never voted. That changes this year.

Thanks for voting! Any interesting races / ballot measures?

I got my ballot last week and mailed it at the post office 3 hours later. Didn't even want to wait one day to let them come pick up my ballot. CA-52

I've historically voted by mail, but I'm doing it in person this year. Not sure if it's because I think there's a chance my mail-in vote won't count or because I want a more tangible experience of voting this year.** Embarrassingly, this might be the first time I've voted in a mid-term. (I'm in the Danny O'Connor/Troy Balderson district and did vote in the recent special election.)

**Voting in person for Obama in 2008 with my 2-year old daughter was pretty awesome. (Hanging around Grant Park in Chicago that night was even more awesome.) Don't get that kind of satisfaction filling out a piece of paper at home.

Which part of the cray cray over the past 2 years made you say "Good ****ing lord, I need to vote!"?

That one is neck and neck! Thank you for voting!

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...house/ohio/12/

I voted in person for Obama in 2008 too, I think it was the last one in WA where we had the non-mail-in option.

Hard to imagine that this country elected him and ****face von clownstick.

I'm waiting until I get a political text from some random stranger before I vote.

Ya, del bene.

Yes to the police bill as well.

I feel pretty safe with our federal reps. I'd really like to get a couple of these 39th district guys in. Both state reps and state senator are Republicans at the moment.

I'm permanent vote-by-mail in CA. Filled out my ballot and dropped it into a secure ballot box at my local library a week or two ago. Voted for Kevin de Leon over Dianne Feinstein.

Nah sadly nothing even close to interesting. Only thing worth watching is if Keith Ellison wins and hopefully the ~80% chance Erik Paulsen is kicked out holds.

TBH the pure ****ing evil that is the border children lockups is probably it though it could be anything. Of all the crap you can to do people of any race, gender, whatever, the worst I can think of would be torturing children. And I hate children..

If we're going to win, we need people like you on our side. Welcome aboard. Please stay engaged and don't let this be a one-off.

Yes, I voted. Don't text me, bro.

I voted by mail. Just checked to see if it was received.

I did it i voted. wasn't easy. sigh of relief. next time I hope you all help me vote.

Yep. voted straight D where I could (some local stuff had 2 R candidates due to California's top two primary).

We have a guy running for school board in my town who has about a million signs all over touting him as "A True Conservative". That was a hard pass for me. IMHO, school boards shouldn't be partisan, plus, the fact that he has a million signs all over makes me suspicious about his funding.

Obv voted for Ammar Campa-Najjar over criminally indicted Duncan Hunter.

As for the props, I basically looked at what the CA republican party endorsed and voted opposite them (except the ones they were neutral on) **** the republicans.

Can't vote. My state tries to force me to reregister and won't send me an absentee ballot ...

Voted this morning. Early voting in my county only has like 3 locations, but luckily one is less than a mile from my house. I drive by basically every day and the lines have been brutal. Got there when they opened this morning, no wait.

Just sent in my absentee ballot, straight dem in Pa. Receiving ballot was pretty fast and they gave clear instructions with return envelope so everything was cake.

Voted by mail in CA. Rohrbacher better lose.

It's absolutely insane, and at the same time 100% expected, that the Dem party didn't force him out. He had a progressive primary challenger. She was a total unknown with basically no funding and got almost 40% of the vote. She would have sailed through the general election. Now we have a nail biter that could very easily put a drug company CEO in a Senate seat that should be a lock for Dems.

As for voting, I'll be doing so on 11/6 in person. I vote in every election and rarely have waited more than 5 minutes, hoping to see a big line this time. Will vote straight Dem, including Menendez. Have yet to research any other smaller positions/ballot questions but will do so beforehand. My dad voted by mail already. The rest of my family will all be voting straight Dem as well. Hopefully NJ doesn't **** this up too badly.

Voted today. Got an absentee mail ballot. Filled it out and then my daughter got ahold of the envelope it's supposed to go in and ripped it. Not taking any chances I dropped it off at the early voting location today and made sure it was OK. There were 0 people at the early voting location at 11:00 on a Saturday. I live in a small town in Ohio... trumpkin hell.

The ballot said to make sure you fold along original creases, and that the ballot had to go in the specific signed envelope they provide. But if you fold along the original creases, it didn't fit in the envelope they provided.

Ohio has an issue on the ballot to reduce prison sentences especially for drug possession. Possession would be a misdemeanor and jail time prohibited until third offense. Steer things more toward rehabilitation, work programs, etc. I can't imagine it has a chance in hell of passing in Ohio.

I voted for it and straight Democrat. They don't label judges by party on the ballot so I had to look those up.

Here's my situation. I've been a US citizen from birth but was born in Canada and have never resided in the US. My parents are from New York, but they were "most recently domiciled" in PA.

I tried registering to vote by absentee ballot in 2010. I ended up with a Centre County Pennsylvania Certificate of Voter Registration with my address listed as the address of my parents' last domicile (which was 1965--I've never lived there). They provided me with the Polling Place where I could vote (a mere 6-hour drive away), but nothing about absentee ballots. By then the election was only 3 weeks away. I reached out to Dems Abroad but they had no idea what I could do, so I gave up.

I just decided to look into this again. I found that "In some States, U.S. citizens who are 18 years or older and were born abroad, but have never resided in the United States, are eligible to vote absentee," but PA is not listed as one of these states. https://www.fvap.gov/citizen-voter/reside

Does this mean as someone who was born a US citizen, has a US Passport, SSN, registered for the draft, and dutifully sends my FBAR and 1040 to the IRA every year, I am not allowed to vote, even in presidential elections, because PA won't let me? This seems extremely unfair as I am white and have photo ID. If I am still eligible to vote for president and just not in PA elections, then can someone tell me what I need to do?

What's your phone number?

Early voted in person today at the rec center two blocks from my house. No waiting. Only moderately interesting race is the US House race (which is polling about 52-48 for the Republican toad). Straight Dem except for one nominally Republican judge who did a great job organizing the boy scout troop popcorn sales last year and seems like an OK dude in general.

Same. I like this feature where you can at least in theory check that your mailed ballot was received and counted.

There's a prop in AZ for a constitutional amendment to prohibit new taxes on "services". The well-funded supporting group is called "Citizens for Fair Tax Policy" and their ads are all scare-mongering about big new taxes coming on everything from haircuts to plumbers to childcare.

It turns out this group is controlled by realtors and all they care about is that their real estate services never get taxed.

To add confusion, the proposition is opposed by both major candidates for Governor as well as by Americans for Properity (Koch-funded libertarian douchebags). It will probably pass anyway.