Early voting just started in NC. I've seen a lot of flyers and websites encouraging people to vote early. Most of them say something like "Vote Early and Help Defeat Bush!" Which makes me wonder, what is the advantage of voting before election day? Is it just the fact that if you vote in advance, you can't forget or have car trouble or something and fail to vote on election day? Or is there some other benefit to getting your vote in early?
I was thinking about voting early anyway, because big elections are a huge hassle at my polling place. The space is badly designed and there's a bottleneck right before the tables where you get your ballot. In a busy year the lines are always really long. I downloaded a PDF from the state board of elections with early polling places for each county. In Durham county there are three high schools and you can vote any day, even Sundays.
i believe the advantage is that by voting early, you won't receive calls from people encouraging you to vote, so those calls could go to someone who might not be planning to vote or might be undecided or whatever.
by the way--you totally looked adorable last night!!
So did you! I'm sorry you weren't feeling well and didn't make it to the end of the show!
Well, by votin early, you might be able to avoid intimidation, fraud, and pollsters.
Then again, maybe not.
http://usatoday.com/news/politicselections/electionline.htm
(it's about halfway down, under "Murphy's Electoral Law")
I'd just be glad to have it out of the way.
ray's schtick is to encourage people to request absentee ballots in advance. the point being that when electronic touch-screen voting starts (which it will, soon) that'll we'll already be in the habit of using paper absentee ballots, and therefore a paper-trail.
for what that's worth.