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RandySF

(77,846 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:33 PM 2 hrs ago

We just voted in California.

Our ballots arrived in the mail today and we both voted YES on Prop 50. Our election office is incredibly efficient.

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We just voted in California. (Original Post) RandySF 2 hrs ago OP
When will the results be published? Nt spooky3 2 hrs ago #1
Yay! sheshe2 2 hrs ago #2
Nov 4 is election day Mz Pip 44 min ago #8
Yeah, we got our ballots in the mail at the end of last week. RockRaven 2 hrs ago #3
I always drop my ballot off in person. BigmanPigman 1 hr ago #4
Ours haven't arrived yet! I'll be watching the mail closely Hekate 1 hr ago #5
Still waitin on my ballot in Orange County. SunSeeker 1 hr ago #6
Dropped mine in the box today. BidenRocks 1 hr ago #7
Ditto! Grumpy Old Guy 22 min ago #9

Mz Pip

(28,236 posts)
8. Nov 4 is election day
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:44 AM
44 min ago

So with only one measure on the ballot the results should come in quickly.

RockRaven

(18,112 posts)
3. Yeah, we got our ballots in the mail at the end of last week.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:37 PM
2 hrs ago

Will be completing and returning shortly.

This system is incredibly efficient.

It is obvious why the "make voting as hard as possible because that's the only way we can win" party hates widespread/default mail-in voting.

BigmanPigman

(53,965 posts)
4. I always drop my ballot off in person.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:55 PM
1 hr ago

When my little dogs were alive they would go with me. They were even given an "I VOTED" sticker. I still have them all over their stuffed animals, chew toys. The people working the polls loved them!!!!

I worked at the polls for a few years while in college and I taught my 1st grade students how to vote and we had a Civics Lesson each year when I became a teacher. I even took them on a "field trip" to the multi-purpose room where people were voting. The people working the polls at my school loved giving my VERY quiet, interested and polite students a "how-to" in public voting. They thought my kids were "so cute".

We voted ALL THE TIME in my class! I still have sheets of I VOTED stickers in 4 different languages (my school was multi cultural). We voted on issues that THEY cared about (everything from "What game should we play at recess?", to "What would you like added to the lunch menu to make it healthier?"

They has 100% ownership! This was very important to them. Then THEY would pass out blank slips of paper (to stay anonymous) and they would write down their choice with their little "privacy boards" up so neighboring students couldn't see their vote). They collected the papers and they read the results and they did the tallies and math on the white board. I was just there staying silent as they ran the show.

I still write to my former students from the 1990s and they remember my "civics /voting lessons". I am so proud!!!

BidenRocks

(2,320 posts)
7. Dropped mine in the box today.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:15 AM
1 hr ago

My inbox should let me know it was received in a few days.

Yes on 50.

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