This is a friendly reminder to all of you fellow North Carolinians that today is the day to vote in the primaries for this fall’s election. The counter on the vote scanner at my station was depressingly low, so, hey, high impact?
This is a friendly reminder to all of you fellow North Carolinians that today is the day to vote in the primaries for this fall’s election. The counter on the vote scanner at my station was depressingly low, so, hey, high impact?
Does NC allow voting by mail?
I’ve found I’ve voted more consistently since moving to CA and OR where mail-in ballots are an option.
You can vote absentee (with no excuse necessary), yes. That said, here in Lenoir, I’ve never seen a line to vote, not even for the “big ones.” Obviously that’s super-dependent on the precinct, though!
There have been a couple of times were I had every intention of voting when I woke up but didn’t make it to the polling place before they closed. I like having it checked off well in advance.
CA and OR also have 5x the amount of things to vote on as either of the places I lived on the East Coast. You almost need to vote by mail or bring a cheat sheet to the booth to wade through the ballot initiatives out here. =(
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with bringing an “intention to vote” sheet to the voting booth, even though–at least to me–it feels weirdly transgressive. I wonder why that is, actually; some sort of weird mental belief in the sanctity of the voting booth or something? But I definitely did it a couple of times back in Baton Rouge, where there were often a lot of things on the ballot. It hasn’t been necessary (yet) here…