Did you vote early? Are you voting today? Share your thoughts, observations, endorsements and predictions here.
If you’re voting the old fashioned way, check here to be sure your polling location hasn’t changed. If you’ve voted by mail, you can track the status of your mail-in ballot.
Or, if you’re one of the 7,691 Newton voters who asked for a mail-in ballot but never sent it (at least as of 5 p.m. last night) you can still bring it to the drop box at City Hall by 8 p.m. tonight.
Public service message: Do not bring a mail-in ballot to your polling place. They cannot accept those ballots, but you can swap for a walk-in vote:
1. Hand a mail-in ballot to warden or poll worker, ask to void it.
2. Cast a traditional ballot by checking in and completing it.
3. Get a sticker, maybe some baked goods, and thanks for helping save democracy.
It will be so refreshing tonight to have a poll result with no statistical margin of error!
I voted at Bowen School at 8:15 this morning. There were three sign holders for Mermell, two for Khazei and one for Grossman. I passed one voter on my way in and three on my way out.
The “track the status of your mail-in ballot” link above is a reassuring. It’s comforting to see a system reporting that my early ballot is officially recorded as “accepted”.
And that as voters we are acceptable.
Bill Galvin runs one of the best statewide voting systems in the country. I hope that every other state has the same kind of efficient and easy to use tracking system we have here, but I rather doubt it.
Dropped our ballots off in one of the boxes at City Hall yesterday. Worked great and loved being able to confirm its receipt online later in the day.
Mailed our ballots last Wednesday and saw they were accepted yesterday. So, git in under the wire, which is good. Since we are out of town.
Ward 1-1/4 has 259 in person voters as of 3:45. Slow trickle but a couple bursts here and there.
Failed at requesting a mail in ballot, so I was #36 (39?) at
8:02 for 4-1. My husband was in the 140’s an hour or so later.
Didn’t have time to drop off the ballot last weekend, but walked to 5-1 with the missus. Was able to swap out my ballot and vote live like @David Wallace said. It was about noon and we were 136 and 137 with maybe 2 other voters there. And we’ll likely get a larger voter turnout. Bill Galvin rules!
Voted in person. #355 in person at 3-4 at 5 PM. No “checking out” before the ballot feeder this time.
Dropped off my ballot in the drop-box at City Hall yesterday, confirmed it was accepted today. Why was I still receiving calls for candidates at 6 pm?
I applied with two days to spare for a mail-in ballot. However, I didn’t trust the post office to get it to me and back again by election day so went for early voting, in person, at the library on Sunday 23rd. Mail-in Ballot arrived on Wednesday. so I ripped it up. Down to 7,690 currently unaccounted for. I suspect there are many more like me, whose trust in USPS has been severely shaken by the current shenanigans.
I voted this morning at 2-1, the Albemarle Field House. Myself, 4 or 5 polling volunteers and one policeman for crowd control. As I was leaving, some other in person voters showed up and complained that they had not been notified of the change in voting places, from the Horace Mann school to the field house. I guess they don’t read all there mail…
So much unnecessary angst, drama and stress over mail in ballots. I was
in and out of Hyde school in 5 minutes.
Same deal as every year, only this year with a mask.
The two sets of poll workers
seated next to each other at their respective tables weren’t even close to being 6 feet apart. Go figure..