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When and how are you going to vote?
I mean specifically. What date? What time? Early Voting? Nov 5? Mail in Ballot? Alone? With a family member? With a friend?
If you don't know the answers to these questions, then you are late. Last week was the week for not knowing. This week is the week for knowing. If you don't know, then spend some time today to get the answers. If you aren't at least that committed to voting, then get so. Once having made these plans you are much more likely to execute them—instead of alternately excusing yourself for not getting around to something you never gave much thought to anyway.
I will give you a rare treat and offer some affirmative advice. Plan to vote with someone. I don't mean show them who you are voting for but drive to the polls with them. Or sit down at one of your dining tables and read the ballot briefings and maybe even ask each other any last-minute questions that the other might be helpful with, and then both of you fill out your ballot, individually, privately. My wife and I always vote together. After 22 years it is a family tradition. It started as a blatant recognition that we often cancel each other out (one of us is a conservative). But now, we usually make it a date night. The polls and a nice dinner make a fine evening.
Anyway. However you plan to vote, start with just that: planning to vote.
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Good advice, Ken.
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We voted early last week, never having done that before. Virginia has pretty much infinite early voting time. I think you can vote here before the election from four years earlier has been certified.
I wouldn't have done it on purpose, but my wife tricked me when we were out doing something else. "Hey, there's the elections office. Let's vote early!"
Early voting should be banned everywhere.
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At the poll on Election Day, by myself . . .
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The (handicapped) wife and I voted together. Last week.
We were unanimous : Trump, Blackburn, Not RINO Yager (Tennessee State Senate District 12) but Independent Charles Hutson II, Not RINO Rose but Write-In (FYI Charles Hutson II), NO on higher wheel tax.
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There's a lot to be said for actually voting on election day. But since early voting does exist, it might be wise to do so. Some people have found in past elections that, when they show up on election day, they're told that they already voted.
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