[ P O L L ] I Voted.  Did you?

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It is Election Day in the USA.  Did you vote?

This is not about whom you voted for, or what.

This is a simple binary poll.

Comments are not necessary.  In fact, I personally prefer that any commentary on the election, the electoral process, the candidates, and the initiatives/propositions be made in separate threads.

But if you simply MUST post a comment, please keep it civil.  Thank you.

Since the USA has elected itself "leader of the free world" I think the rest of the "free world" should get a say in it too.

I clicked on no but it was for geographical reasons more than political

I wrote-in Hatsune Miku. Truly the queen America needs.

My voting place was at a very strange location. I really want to say where, but then it would give away where I live, so I can’t.

Was it under Thomas Jefferson's nose at Mount Rushmore?

I voted on Oct. 21

^^ Not being able to say is painful because I have the perfect joke in mind. Life is full of such disappointments I’ve discovered.

The road to my polling place had two lanes blocked both ways due to a Republican-backed "Street Improvement" project; but driving away from the polling place involved no impediments to traffic whatsoever.

Hmm . . .

I'm sick & only have a short bit until polls close here. I'm not sure I'll make it. I've only missed one or two other Nov votes since I was 18, also due to illness. I'm in a very red place, so my non-red won't really matter much anyway. But all my non-voting friends began voting in the last presidential election finally, so it feels hypocritical if I don't go vote too since I've been pushing people to go for years (decades). At the same time, why should I feel guilty for having a legitimate reason when so many haven't bothered until now?

EtA: Ours has always been held at a local church. This irritates me, but I can't change it.

I voted today and I saw a most unusual baseball cap: it had M A N A on it and it was blue I asked the person wearing it what M A N A stood for. I was told Make America Normal Again.

I made myself get up & go vote. Wore a mask. No line. I'm going to collapse a while because that took all my energy. I realized I was much sicker those other two times, so I started dressing, got that adrenaline rush of energy, & am now spent.

For the first time tho, no damned people outside trying to convince me who to vote for. That alone made it worth it (almost).

My family very much instilled in me that we should be good citizens & participate. Even when we all disagreed, we all still wanted everyone to vote. Play the game (pay taxes but get back as much as one can), do your job (jury duty w/o complaining), & vote (one's only real(ish) way to have a say). Protest & lobby if desired. I still find other adults weird. lol.

(Major opinion removed so this doesn't turn into a debate about who's who & who represents what.)

I think being sick is a really good reason to miss.

I only started voting in the last presidential election because it went against my family’s religious beliefs to do so to the point that I could be shunned for doing it. When I’m going in, I still try to look inconspicuous which probably just makes me look more conspicuous.

Canadian here,

I obviously didn't vote in the US federal election. But we did have a recent provincial election a week or two ago and I also didn't vote then. My reasons being A: I don't believe in voting anymore, democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner. B: Even if I did believe in voting there was no good candidates running for office this year. They were all equally awful.

OSHO said it best here: https://youtu.be/fCQoukZvvFo?si=y5z7-7HeolRNlM0t