<p>D2 is registered and is going to vote in her college town - which, unlike here, is located in a swing state.</p>
<p>New twin voters here! They turned 18 in July and live on campus at Maryland about 30 minutes away. They both plan to drive home today to vote & then return to school. :D</p>
<p>Oh yes! Both of our children got to vote in their first presidential election in a swing state due to college location, our son 4 years ago and our daughter this year. Both very excited about this. Our 24 year old son will attend a local viewing of results, even though we are no longer in a swing state.</p>
<p>Dd filled out her absentee ballot and sent it already.</p>
<p>Yes, my 18 year old son requested his absentee ballot as soon as he got his mailing address. He is excited to vote for the first time.</p>
<p>My oldest tried to vote by absentee ballot in the last presidential election, but even though he requested it fairly early, NYS didn’t manage to deliver it to him until the day after it was supposed to be postmarked. Yep, he was disenfranchised. He’s graduated now and has assured us he’s registered in CA. </p>
<p>Younger son, who is in Jordan now, tried to order an absentee ballot, but the process was so difficult and confusing he gave up on the theory that NYS was pretty much a foregone conclusion. (Even our state assembly rep is running unopposed.) I do think absentee ballots shouldn’t be quite such a chore.</p>
<p>DS1 wrote me from abroad this morning that he’s taking a half-day off to watch the returns with fellow students. :)</p>
<p>Our student voted by absentee ballot.</p>
<p>^ hi fogfog!</p>
<p>My DS voted in the state where he goes to school and being quite interested in gov’t and politics he researched all the local candidates and all the state referendums, bond issues, etc., on the ballot. I must admit even I don’t always do that.</p>
<p>D1 voted absentee by mail several weeks ago. It was a tough choice for her whether to vote absentee from our home address, or to re-register at her college address, but we have a couple of closely contested ballot measures here that she’s quite passionate about, so she decided to vote absentee. But she did some voter registration and GOTV work at her college, so she feels good about being able to stay involved.</p>
<p>I feel bad for D2 who is just 3 months shy of 18 and can’t vote. She’s extremely well informed and cares deeply about the candidates and issues, and as she points out she’s already highly skilled at filling out bubble sheets given her extensive experience with the PSAT, PLAN, SAT, ACT, Subject Tests, etc. She’d be an excellent voter, more thoughtful and better informed than most of the 18-90 year-olds out there.</p>
<p>bc, ds2 is bummed, too. He can vote in March.</p>
<p>Daughter is studying in Korea. Requested an absentee ballot before she left in September. Received ballot in the mail in Korea although she had requested email ballot, apparently she did not qualify for that since she will be in Korea for less than 2 years. Nowhere on the form or website was this information given as far as either of us could tell. I am VERY relieved that she had a Korean address also listed on the form to which they could mail, since no one from board of elections ever notified her that she wouldn’t be getting that email she was waiting for. Voted and mailed on time!</p>
<p>This was the first Presidential election possibility for my twins. One voted absentee back to our home state, one of those “foregone conclusion” states, and the other voted in the state his college is located in, now apparently a “sort of” swing state. The latter one texted me this morning just after he voted that “it felt so good.” I thought that was really cool!</p>
<p>My two who are still in school voted by absentee ballot…and here in Ohio, every vote will count.</p>
<p>DD1 voted for the first time on our gubernatorial recall election this past summer (both the primary and election). I forwarded her absentee voter request form to her college town and she did the mailing/paperwork. Her absentee ballot came two weeks ago and she voted. She is so excited about this whole process and the close race this year. She went to rallies for her preferred prez and vp candidates - both came to her school/college town. </p>
<p>I am really impressed that she cares so much. DD2 is very bummed she is only 16 and can’t vote, but has already started forming opinions - which means she has been paying attention, and I think that is great.</p>
<p>2 voting, 1 not. My 18 yr old had the form sitting on the counter but never mailed it in. Pure laziness on her part.
My oldest voted last presidential election in a swing state. Ths year she is working abroad. I am pleased that she went to the effort to reregister and request a ballot. Not sure but I think the ballot came via email but needed to be faxed back. She is living in a country that leaders are not chosen by the people. My other adult child is voting in HS 2nd election. He is living in our town and is voting at his old elementary school.</p>
<p>My daughter voted by absentee ballot and sent me this email today:
I talked to her later and she said that an exam scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until Friday because the professor figures everyone will be up late following election returns and, depending on the outcome, may not be in mental shape for an exam tomorrow.</p>
<p>When DD registered to vote, she requested permanent absentee because she knew she would be going off to college. The absentee ballot never arrived for the primary, so she voted at the polls provisionally. This election, she submitted the card on the back of the sample ballot to request an absentee. When it didn’t arrive, she followed up with a phone call, and they had her request one online. Again, it never arrived – unlike her second jury summons! She is understandably steamed about being disenfranchised. Her vote really might make a difference in a number of state and local races and measures; at the federal level not so much.</p>
<p>my S voted today. Nice to see our children sporting the ‘I Voted’ sticker, isn’t it!</p>
<p>^^My son (first time voting), claimed he was voting for Batman. </p>
<p>We know exactly how he voted, he wasn’t fooling anyone!</p>