Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:19:28 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a46c943e518440f2339ecb2f626adaab"; logging-data="3216755"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BOnZTInpG0xhV1sVk0KQA3OaRPRG+mbk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EmDfZu2ra4QJ9ca3I6R4ADNKKj8= Bytes: 3247 On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:53:43 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >On 8/26/24 18:03, Jay E. Morris wrote: >> On 8/25/2024 2:16 PM, Chris Buckley wrote: >>> Many things would have to change here.=A0 Security procedures require >>> months of preparation now.=A0 The voting/tallying period is now = approaching >>> a month between early voting and delivery of mail ballots.=A0 It = certainly >>> won't allow a quick second round. >>> >>> Locally, all schools are closed on election day and even the day = before >>> this year due to schools being polling places.=A0 It's tough to have = an >>> indeterminate calendar for schools. >>=20 >> Here, southwest Texas, I don't know of a polling place that's in a=20 >> school. Churches, fire stations, city hall, county courthouse but no=20 >> schools. > > In San Francisco we use any space available, the lobby of a big >building may have space or a closed store.(too many of those around).But= =20 >I vote at home then carry my ballot to a collection box. I used to drop= =20 >it at City Hall but that is very tiring(for me) and for many years now I= =20 >have voted at home and hand carried my ballot to a collection box. With=20 >DeJoy trying to put the Post Office out of business I would not entrust=20 >it to the US Mail. Dubious as I am of DeJoy, I must report this: every month I mail two checks out on the 1st one is to a local charity (in Seattle, WA) one is to an international charity (in Washington, DC) in March 2024, the local check cleared on the 7th and the international check cleared on the 11th=20 in August 2024, they both cleared on the 8th So I would say that there has been some improvement recently. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"