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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump is shitting his diaper right now.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I mean, that's gonna be true regardless, but

All told, 1,027,585 absentee ballots were reported on Oct. 20, 2020. As of Tuesday, this year’s combined total was 475,460.

Early voting in Wisconsin is way down from what it was in 2020 (edit: on the same relative voting day).

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're looking at a total count after the election versus what is happening now.

🤦

Absentee is also not the same as early or mail-in tabular.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only there was some sort of global event that drove up absentee voting in 2020

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -4 points 1 month ago
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'm just gonna assume that was covid. No need to correct me if I'm wrong ill just wait until i wake up in Hell on Nov 6th.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

2020 was covid and some places had extended early voting dates. Im Texas I think we did 20 days instead of 14 or something like that.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This person is a paid shill. Don't believe them.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -2 points 1 month ago

Not sure where you got that idea.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last I saw, 18 million people have already voted, probably closer to 20 by the end of today. 2 million have voted in Georgia, which is about half of the total expected. According to trackmyvote.org, mine has been counted. Get your happy ass out there and vote. Feels good.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 32 points 1 month ago

I had to drop an overdue book off at the library and it was packed! Whoo!

Forgot about the in person early voting because I mailed my absentee ballot a while ago

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[–] SolarMonkey 3 points 1 month ago

I submitted my ballot to my county clerk waaaaay back on 09OCT, it shows as counted. It was ahead of when drop boxes came out, but any time after 03OCT is valid.

I know a lot of other people who just haven’t dropped it off yet, but basically nobody I know is willing to actually mail them back due to that bullshit with the post office maybe dumping ballots back in 2020… much safer to bring them directly, or vote early in person.

However, when I was canvassing, tons and tons of people said they were planning to vote on Election Day (and I didn’t bother asking Trump voters about their voting strategy plan, fuck ‘em, don’t care.) or had mail absentee that they were going to use.

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