I don't recall ever having to give a reason for absentee ballot, and my entire pre-Oregon-where-the-whole-state-votes-by-mail life in both VA and CA I always voted by absentee ballot (first because of being a student, then because it was just easier and more convenient.) IIRC, once you sign up for absentee (at last in VA and CA) you can elect then to be permanent absentee voter and they just keep sending you the absentee ballot to whatever address you specified until/unless you ask them to stop or send it somewhere else. I think there was a clause that if you did not return the absentee ballot more than once your absentee status would be revoked, and then you'd have to go wait in line and such. It was super easy to set up.

eta: ok, apparently not all states are as lenient as CA and some do have requirements. is a nice resource

Yeah, I'm permanent absentee in CA. It's great.

I'm not so much taking the piss at you. I really did not like that movie.

Sounds like the movie is best enjoyed with a bottle of wine or two.

Fucking governor of FL - I hope you are fucking ashamed. This is unconscionable. Fucking unconscionable.

I doubt it somehow, that he feels shame I mean. But yeah, he should.

Missed the deadline to absentee vote in Virginia. By one day. Go me. Never mind, I can vote on Election Day, I just didn't wanna wait.

Me, I was reading really adult material and would have be fine at 9, but I was a mutant.

Don't kid yourself, Strix, still a mutant.

I don't really follow the news-- have they said anything about how Sandy is going to effect voting in NYC? Since NYC is so predominately Democrat and so much bigger than upstate and western NY, I don't usually worry about my vote (I was planning on voting for Jill Stein). But if NYC doesn't have a big turn out, it is possible my vote will matter, and I should vote for Obama.

My complete ass-pull opinion is "probably not much". Electricity should be completely (or nearly) in place by then. Some transportation will probably still be sticky, but we're densely populated enough that I'd hazard that just about everybody is within walking distance of their polling place.

You should sue them, Scola, this is New York. Fucking with someone's view is in the criminal code.

IIRC, in NJ you needed a reason to absentee-vote but they never checked up on it and I think there was one for if you might be out of town on that day.

Well, I'm half-German and I don't give a fuck. Or maybe that's the Finn in me.

Go Team (half) Finn! If ou don't mind me asking is there a Yooper connection?

In Pennsylvania, you have to provide a reason for needing an absentee ballot.

Argh! I cannot pull the trigger on buying this coffee table! It's cheap, but I found a review that says it looks better in person than online. It's exactly what I want, functionally. And yet! I am afraid to spend more money on more crappy furniture. Even if I were willing to spend the big bucks, what I want is not stylish, so the nice stores don't have it. I should just do it, right? Maybe this afternoon.

Jesse, how about this, or this?