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Just curious since it seems so much easier and less stressful during any election cycle to fill out a form and mail it in during your free time.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

paranoia. I am familiar.

you get a confirmation email in the states I know about after your vote is counted early, so you know that your vote was received and recorded.

how would voting in a person make it more difficult for the non-federal employees to throw away your vote versus federal employees in a federal building?

or does it just feel-better-in-person?

I'm just curious about personal experiences here, you should definitely go in person if you prefer that.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Where I vote, I sign a book next to my name, enter everything on a computer, which prints out a ballot. I can review what it says, and then I put it into the scanner which shows that the vote count has increased by one.

The process leaves my "footprints" all over the system. It would be much harder to say I didn't vote in this way, than if my mail-in ballot "got lost in the mail."

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

you can track your mail in ballot, but I do like what you're talking about, leaving physical recordings and evidence of you voting.