I'm in CA. If you have the luxury, the polling districts local to me have ballot dropoff locations a couple weeks leading up to the election. My neighbor has been a poll worker since we moved here and she says it's fairly standard statewide. If I recall reading in prior elections, there should be one in your town/city hall. I'd rather deliver it myself than trust usps

I'm in CA and I agree it'll probably be fine, and I'd know because of the verification system. But the major pain in the ass that would be required to follow up if the USPS decides not to deliver my ballot vs. the probably unnecessary, but very easy, route of dropping it off at a collection center is no contest. I'll still wait for my mail ballot so I can fill it out at my leisure and take my time with all of the information about ballot propositions available to me, but I'll take it to a drop point after.

but at some point, the counts get digitized, then it's the domain of BIGBALLS.

It is how it works. Take your mail-in ballot straight to your Election department. They will gladly accept it.

I can't speak about Honolulu, because I've never lived there but in CA there are secure drop boxes conveniently placed all over and there is no line, you just walk or drive up and put it in. It literally takes 2 seconds, I don't see how it could be possible for a backup to occur. I had to do it once when I waited too long and I wanted to make sure I was counted on election day. At your drop boxes is there a person you have to interact with or something?

Honolulu county is only 600 sq-mi and has only 1 million people. San Antonio covers the same land area and has about 2.3M and it is no problem to do in person and drop off. So it’s not logistically impossible. Just do it if you want your vote to count.

Hours in queue vs more of this shit, are you real? May the leopards find you tasty.

What attitude?

There is nothing wrong with voting the way that you want to.

Vote ANY way possible. Make your voice COUNT.

That's not going to happen.

What will happen, assuming he's successful, is the Democrats will quietly fall in line after a few weeks of posturing. There will be lawsuits, and the courts will ultimately decide in Trump's favor.

Unrest comes when people have their way of life existentially threatened through hunger or homelessness. Or when their position within the caste is in question.

Unrest will come from the Right if they lose. When the undecideds and liberals lose an election, they say "damn, better luck next time" and move on. They aren't willing to do anything that might jeopardize their comfortable way of life.

The people pushed to the margins will be further castigated, and find themselves in an even more dangerous position.

Unrest will come from the margins. People with nothing, and everything, to lose. The police will be granted further impunity to kill, and POC/LGBTQ+ will die. They'll protest, and they'll be killed by cops and right wing nutjobs alike. And no help will come. "Allies" will start to go quiet if the violence gets particularly bad and those communities will learn who their true friends are.

Arm yourselves. Violence is coming regardless of who wins in November.

I’ll be honest and say fantasies of a second civil war are trite. Right wingers will make one up about big government overreach (aka international capitalists removing the protectionist frameworks keeping crybabies like US ranchers and carmakers afloat) where the conclusion is getting back to what the founding fathers desired. Cosmopolitan types will make one about “””polarization””” and oh have you no decency??? where in the end everyone becomes a perfect, compliant neoliberal subject.

Whatever the case, it’s pure american exceptionalist drivel. Both are adamantly for the document that says slaves are worth 3/5 of a person. There is no serious willingness or dare I say ability to contend with what actual war looks like. These fantasies always stand counterpoint to the reality where as it turns out we aren’t having a setpiece war. Ever. It’s all cultural animosity. Economically, in the real world, everything is in lockstep. So a film about a scary future we can look at then turn off, it reassures us of the greatness of the US, in weal or woe, a place outside of history, above history.

I go early every year and I've had to wait in line once, and even then the wait was only about 10 minutes for my area which is not considered rural.

The general public arent paying nearly as much attention

Trump said before he was elected in 2016 that if he didn't win re-election, he would challenge the results. Then he did exactly that. The dude has already openly committed a coup.

At this point, if the public isn't paying attention, it's because the political system is clearly fully committed to letting Trump do whatever he wants.

If there’s rep shenanigans we all need to march on Washington until justice is done.

Burn down data centers

So if she wasn't gay they wouldn't report the news?

The GOP does, wtf are the Dems doing? If if nothing, who out there is and how can we build that community?

They are. How is that not obvious to you? That's why mailing in is being attacked and immigrants are being literally rounded up and what they want armed thugs at places to intimidate dem voters away. They're trying all of it and more.

It’s not entirely hopeless. It just requires millions upon millions of us to take unified action.

We can refuse to comply with anything en masse. Refuse to work. Refuse to pay our bills and taxes. Refuse to engage. They can use their authority to harass a small portion of us, but there’s nothing they can do to intimidate millions of us.

Exactly