WHERE are the links and INFO for EARLY VOTING? PLEASE encourage EARLY VOTING!! It's quick, it's easy, esp for workers and parents and seniors! for Electionland IN

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WHERE are the links and INFO for EARLY VOTING? PLEASE encourage EARLY VOTING!! It's quick, it's easy, esp for workers and parents and seniors!

I would like to suggest that Rock the Vote, ElectionLand and Vote411 all place a PROMINENT one-click link on home page, ENCOURAGING EARLY VOTING! So many citizens do NOT realize, in most states, almost ANYONE can EARLY VOTE!
No, you do not need a doctor's note, or an airline ticket to prove you were out of town, etc. ANYONE can early vote, it TAKES FIVE MINUTES! Typically, it is done in the local courthouse, but, this can vary.
Takes FIVE minutes, none of this standing in lines for hours, trying to make it to the polls after you get off work and pick up your kids and are tired. YOu walk in, CAST YOUR EARLY VOTE, and it's done. Usually able to do this, Mon - Fri and a few SATURDAYS as well!
LET'S GET THE WORKING PEOPLE AND YOUNG PARENTS TO EARLY VOTE!!

LINKS FOR EACH STATE, WITH DETAILED INFO on WHERE they go in each state to early vote, would be so so awesome. Or provide links for each state that one can use to narrow down to their own precinct.
AT LEAST MAKE IT VERY VERY OBVIOUS, THAT EARLY VOTING IS GREAT OPTION FOR MOST WORKERS!!

EARLY VOTER asked in Going to the Polls about 1 year ago | Report

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Thanks, Early Voter.

We will get right on it.

Zach answered in Going to the Polls about 1 year ago | Report

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WOW!!! Thank you!!
I would imagine, posting links to EACH AND EVERY precinct in USA would be daunting, and very very difficult if not impossible...

BUT, even a banner on home page, educating these young parents and working people they DO have the option to find their own early voting info, if only they realized they should go google it.

Most americans CAN locate their own states early voting info with a quick google, IF they realize, ANYONE *can* early vote. (well, in almost all states, anyway.)

but, prominently encouraging the working families to early vote--it takes 5 minutes/no lines!!------would be a wonderful wonderful help for so many people who just don't know, they too, could early vote.
Also, besides early voting being a great idea for those with littel ones in tow, or the working person, early voting is such a great idea for seniors, who often can't stand in line for hours like everyone else can.

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!

EARLY VOTER commented about 1 year ago | Report

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Most people can be encouraged to locate their own early voting info for their state by googling their "state name + early voting 2010"

...***IF*** they realize THERE IS THAT OPTION of EARLY VOTING!!

(People---be sure you put in 2010, or you might get 2008 info..)

EARLY VOTER commented about 1 year ago | Report

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To be fair, we do have it listed prominently in the right hand Election Center. It says "In-person Early Voting? Early voting starts 29 prior to Election Day and ends at 12:00 noon on November 1st."

We are working on a more prominent display now.

Zach commented about 1 year ago | Report

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Yes, that is true, but go look at the ElectionLand homepage. Nothing.
NOT EVEN ON THE LIST of choices on the side menu on homepage.
Not a word.
AND EARLY VOTING IS SO SO SO IMPORTANT to those who work/have kids/etc. ESPECIALLY in Indiana.
Try working in another precinct than your polling place.....you get off at 5:30pm...pick up your kids....zoom across town, and BAM, you are out of luck, it is 6:01pm.

Yes, the polls DO open at 6am, but with school kids, that is NOT an easy option for parents, either, AND the 6am line is daunting, absolutely NUTZ, a mile long. You WILL be late for work, or have to skip your kids breakfast that day.

I am just passionate advocate, having missed out on casting my vote in the past, cuz i had to work late (Indiana closes polls at 6pm!!!?) and i know i am NOT the only one that has happened to. (i did not know ANYONE can early vote, i'd heard of it, but thought one had to have 'some excuse' to cast an early vote.)

Because i do think EARLY VOTING *is* a little known option, that IS widely available in most states, and is SO SO SO EASY, SO SO EASY, i just think it ought to be trumpetted from the rooftops.

i just wish places like ElectionLand,--- which IS so often turned to, so powerful in educating people about how to vote------would really Hammer 'EARLY VOTING' into a lil more prominent area, and PUSH early voting as a viable EASY option.

You'd probably be surprised how many people think early voting requires a note from a doctor, airline ticket, etc etc. I'm not kidding!! Or--how many people have NEVER EVEN HEARD OF IT, nor realize HOW UBER EASY it is!!! Takes five whole minutes, whenever YOU feel like voting!!

HOW COOL IS THAT? And so many just do not know.

EARLY VOTER commented about 1 year ago | Report

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Even a banner, on Homepage, that reads "EARLY VOTING IS EASY!! TAKES FIVE MINUTES! Learn more {here}." with a link advising them to google their states name + EARLY VOTING.
The link, prominently displayed (maybe blinking, ha ha!!) could also give some basic info, like *ANYONE* can early vote in most states, tell them to verify where/when/to early vote, check out if the early voting station closes for lunch (some do!) and EMPHASIZE SATURDAYS are typically available to early vote, etc etc etc.

MAKE IT APPEALING!! LET THEM KNOW?

EARLY VOTER commented about 1 year ago | Report

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