El... Posted May 28, 2020 Posted May 28, 2020 I vote by mail. It's not a casual thing. Until 2009, as an American military spouse, I'd have had to register in each new place we lived. Now by federal law I'm allowed to keep my home registration. I have to register a long time ahead, long enough for the county voting registrar to handle my application. I have to request ballots again every year, by that deadline. I have to provide my driver's license information and several other corroborating pieces of information to verify my identity. Eventually I get my ballot, mailed or emailed. I have to fill it in early, usually before half the people on it have dropped out of their races. Then I have to print it, sign it the way I did my registration, fold it inside another specially labeled and signed signature page, and put all of that in the mail... on time. If my ballot, coming from a military post office overseas, does not make it to my home county in time, it will not be counted. I wasn't counted last time, according to the county database where I can see my ballot status. I only mailed it two weeks early. If you're over here with me and haven't done the paperwork yet to get your ballot, you'd better get on that today. Here's the link to start the process. https://www.fvap.gov/vote?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwr32BRD4ARIsAAJNf_3bJoZ6ArxXmg1uIvo14sG-AAtgrZ0pWAbfP0XjMtV8Bi_9slcdqusaAi9ZEALw_wcB 6 Quote
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