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Most states do have some provision that mandates giving employees sufficient time to vote. Some do specify at the beginning or end of shift, or giving employers advance notice, but that really shouldn't be that big a hardship, if you're planning now.
A few states don't make provision, but most of us really do have the right to insist on time off to vote, if we can't manage it either before or after our shift or via absentee ballot:
Interesting list, Redwolf. It looks like 19 states (38%) have no time-off provisions. Of the others, 9 do not mandate paid time. That means a majority of states (28 or 56%) allow employees to be penalized financially for voting. Ain't democracy grand ...
I just sealed up my absentee ballot and stuck it in the big blue box out on the corner of my street!
First time I've done absentee. We have a new polling place, it's a school that will be in session, and there was NO WAY I was going to get into that mess. Plus I have training to conduct at work that day, so cannot be late (I ususally get number 1 or 2 at the polling place).
Does this mean I don't have to listen to any more political commercials for the next week?
I have to go help my blind friend vote tomorrow. He refuses to use the accessible voting machine at the courthouse, so I have to mark his ballot for him.
Spokane County is required to vote by mail, unless you need to use the special machine. No more trying to remember where you're supposed to go and trying to find a parking space once you get there.
We'll be at the polls at 6 am to sneak in the back doors to avoid the gauntlet by the front doors. I took my mother in two weeks ago to vote which you can do in Virginia for medical, vacation, etc. reasons. We will take the rest of the day off to go biking and play with the pups.
I hope to be voting this afternoon. I was pleased to see in the paper this morning that 147,000 Utahns have voted early--and they expect the number to rise to 250,000 by election day. I'm glad. I'm working at the polls on election day and have been worried about getting bathroom breaks.
Voted last week, via absentee ballot. As always seems to be the case, I'm traveling election day, so I always get the early ballot.
Thankfully, AZ is not a swing state (although it's starting to look like less of a lock for our "native" son), I've been blissfully spared from prez commercials, except whilst traveling.
I voted this afternoon. Long line but moving quickly - they had something like ten receiving judges and pollbook judges who got people checked in fast. Umpteen voting machines--didn't have to wait even though there were probably 20-25 people on the machines. Tons of people voting early here.
I voted almost two weeks ago. It must have been the Democrats' day because there were no pickup trucks with the back end full of brawling kids and patchy-haired dogs parked illegally on the courthouse lawn. I think all the Democrats showed up at once, because there were three people ahead of me in line and all six of the little cardboard stands were in use.
The nice thing about early voting is that I don't have to shove my way past all the silver-haired nursing home incontinents, redolent of Avon and stale urine, who were rounded up and stuffed in a parish van and dragged down to the polling place to strike a vote for Jesus.
Crazy for the blue white and red
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
My mom and I went and voted Friday. My mom and I always vote together The line was 3 hours long and it's even longer now! I can't imagine how it's gonna be next tue!
The line was 3 hours long and it's even longer now! I can't imagine how it's gonna be next tue!