November '24 Chat -- Thanksgiving, here we come.....you bunch of turkeys!

[2004LB7]

Had a co-worker try to present ID and they wouldn't even look at it, telling him it was now illegal to verify ID in California.

Similar to my experience. They didn't sai it was illegal but told me they don't need or require it. They've been adding everyone who gets a driver's license to the voter registration list. Basically everyone, wether legal citizen or not can vote here in California.

I know there has been a few lawsuits about it and supposedly they are not supposed to be doing that anymore , but the damage is done. They can only fix it by purging the registration list and making everyone start over. But they would never do that here

 

[JoshH]

So anyone can just walk in off the street and get a ballot? How do they know the person voting is a registered voter?

 

[2004LB7]

So anyone can just walk in off the street and get a ballot? How do they know the person voting is a registered voter?

I don't remember the details, but I think I just needed to tell them my name. Then they punched it in a computer and printed my ballet. So as long as your on the registration list your fine. But no checks or verification at the registration level if done through DMV as many have

 

[TheBac]

When Ive voted in person, they ask for my ID, scan it, and check it with their rolls. IF that all matches, I get a ballot, which number is then matched to my name. So they CAN track your ballot, which means to me that they can track your vote. But then, Ann Arbor DID just let a Chinese national vote, and wont remove his votes from the totals. So there's that....
We cant stop this discussion from getting overly political, so lets all try to be civil. But dammit, I sure hope Trump wins.

 

[Dm23]

So anyone can just walk in off the street and get a ballot? How do they know the person voting is a registered voter?

I just talked to him. So he presented the ID , they declined to view it. He did present his name and address to them, but my co-worker said that anyone could just walk up and tell them your joe blow at so & so address and you could vote. Basically saying if you knew the persons name and address you could vote on there behalf. He also said the voting system had a hard or difficult time with 1/2 address's.

 

[TheBac]

^^ California is unbelievable. I dont know how you guys can live there.

 

[Dm23]

^^ California is unbelievable. I dont know how you guys can live there.

Born and raised here, it's all I know. I think the state is nice, but the politics have ruined it and has turned it for the worse. It would be nice to check out other states, but I don't think my wife wants to move since our families are here.

 

[JoshH]

I love California. I had never been there prior to 2017, but I have been back 3 times since then and am going back again this coming spring. It's a beautiful state and the people I have interacted with there have been very friendly. I don't necessarily agree with their policies and politics, but that doesn't make it a nice place to visit and doesn't make the people there bad people.

 

[Dm23]

Which part are you visiting?

 

[JoshH]

Yosemite

 

[malibu795]

I voted already. Dropped my ballet off at City Hall last week

Interesting, voting in person in California is no different than dropping off a ballot in a drop box. During the mid terms, I went in to my local voting center to "vote in person". But all it was is a computer that printed the exact same ballet that is mailed to us. Then you walk it over to the exact same drop box and put it in.

For you people in other states, is voting in person different? I keep hearing about it's safer, or somehow better. But where I'm at, it's identical to dropping off your mail in ballet that you filled in at home

For Ohio, early in person is generally at one location in the county, and absentee ballots can be dropped off in person, and you can vote early in person for almost a month.
Election day you have designated areas pertaining to your address.
This cycle was first time I didn't have an absentee ballot.
The local churches put on a 11-1 lunch during elections day. But we're little ~1800 population farm town in a county that has ~150-160k people

 

[malibu795]

As for registering to vote Ohio requirements are US citizens and permanent residents for 30? Days and cut off To register is like 5-6 months for November.. might be off on the latter part.
They'll register you or update your address up on driver's license renewal to

 

[shakenfake]

I promised the next guy in line who was voting opposite of me that I would go home if he did. So we went home.

 

[2004LB7]

I promised the next guy in line who was voting opposite of me that I would go home if he did. So we went home.

He probably went back later to cast his vote. Now yours is lost and he wins

 

[PureHybrid]

Our site is the elementary school. Walk up to the line and they have the ballot issues printed out and hung on the wall so you can read the details. Give them your name and address, they verify with your license and you sign for it. Get a blank ballot and head to a booth, fill in your votes with a sharpie and put it in the machine

 

[Dm23]

Our site is the elementary school. Walk up to the line and they have the ballot issues printed out and hung on the wall so you can read the details. Give them your name and address, they verify with your license and you sign for it. Get a blank ballot and head to a booth, fill in your votes with a sharpie and put it in the machine

Seems legit.

 

[2004LB7]

Maybe someone from Idaho can chime in here. I have a friend in Idaho who just voted in person for the first time. He said he went to the voting center and they checked his drivers license to verify he was a legal citizen and eligible to vote. But the weird part is they just grabbed a ballot from a folder containing a bunch of them and handled it to him to fill out. Then he inserted into a scanner that counted it up. He said there was a barcode on the ballot but how do they connect that barcode/ballot to him or his vote? They didn't scan the barcode before handing it over.

So, how does the system know it's his? Is it just assumed that he went to the voting center and voted so it doesn't matter who's is who's? Just a record that he did vote but no way to track his ballot. And no way to audit the results since you can't trace back the vote to the person?

 

[PureHybrid]

Seems legit.

One of the perquisites of a small town. It's all older folks that run the polls and everyone is super nice

And I should correct myself, that a drivers license is not a necessity, State ID and Passports also accepted

 

[PureHybrid]

Maybe someone from Idaho can chime in here. I have a friend in Idaho who just voted in person for the first time. He said he went to the voting center and they checked his drivers license to verify he was a legal citizen and eligible to vote. But the weird part is they just grabbed a ballot from a folder containing a bunch of them and handled it to him to fill out. Then he inserted into a scanner that counted it up. He said there was a barcode on the ballot but how do they connect that barcode/ballot to him or his vote? They didn't scan the barcode before handing it over.

So, how does the system know it's his? Is it just assumed that he went to the voting center and voted so it doesn't matter who's is who's? Just a record that he did vote but no way to track his ballot. And no way to audit the results since you can't trace back the vote to the person?

Maybe they messed up? My ballot code was scanned after they scanned my ID

 

[TheBac]

Maybe they messed up? My ballot code was scanned after they scanned my ID

Yep, same here...when I used to go vote at the precinct. Maybe the election workers werent paying close enough attention during orientation?