2 Week Early In-Person Voting is OK by me. What I would add is a Daily Running Vote Total being made public. When anyone votes In-Person, their vote would immediately be counted/tabulated and then added to the Publicly Posted Running Vote Totals for every candidate or proposition on that person's ballot. We are voting Then and There. We are Not making a contribution to a blood bank.
In-person early voting here involves (my experience anyway) scanning a “real ID” card into the system, signing my name on a touch-screen to apparently help verify my identity, obtaining a programmed card that I assume includes my identity, inserting that programmed card into the selection machine, selecting the people I voted for on the touch-screen on the selection machine, verifying my selections, printing the resulting ballot from the printer on the selection machine, taking my programmed card out of the selection machine, taking my printed ballot off of the printer of that selection machine and verifying the selections, taking both the programmed card and the printed ballot to a worker at voting machine, handing the programmed card to the worker, inserting the printed ballot myself into the voting machine, and waiting for the voting machine to confirm acceptance of the ballot. I think we were both finished voting and back in the car in about 15-minutes total. I would not enjoy waiting in line for hours. But if the only option was to do so (or to not vote), I would wait in line for hours (and complain about it the whole time). I am very thankful for early voting. If they wait to tally the early votes until after the polls have closed on Election Day, so be it. I can understand that they might not want the early voting results to influence the election-day voters’ decisions.
