Minnesota

I requested both my primary and general election ballot by mail months ago.

For the general election, I sat on the ballot for weeks. Was hoping Golden Valley, MN would set up a drop box, but never did. I didn't want to mail it because of DeJoy and all that ...

so, though mad as hell that I'd have to go in-person and interact with people to apply for a new ballot and then vote it (though I had done all that at home long ago), I went to my early voting location at Golden Valley City Hall on Oct. 21 to at least check it out.

I brought my ballot that I had gotten in the mail, duly filled out and voted, enclosed in the privacy envelope which was enclosed in the signature envelope (filled out of course), which was enclosed in the mailing envelope -- so that it was ready to drop in the mail if I chose to do so except for sealing the envelopes ... in case I didn't like the scene at City Hall.

I arrived Wednesday around 1230p Oct 21 at Golden Valley City Hall -- not another soul there, besides the friendly lady at the desk in the voting area (masked, and with plexiglass from countertop to ceiling). I decided I wasn't going to get Covid there.

No problem with using my ballot that I had gotten in the mail. She gave me back the mailing envelope as she doesn't need. She sealed the signature envelope with a sponge-tipped liquid applier stick. (No problem that the ballot privacy envelope wasn't sealed, she said - she never looked at the ballot, BTW).

About 3 or 4 days later it was shown as "accepted and will be counted" or some such words at the MN SOS website (I have to key in some identifying information).

https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/AbsenteeBallotStatusResult.aspx

I got the notion that I'd have to start over from scratch if I early-voted in person (fill out an application for a ballot and then fill out the ballot) from some MPR interview with S.O.S. Steve Simon -- he apparently interpreted the caller's question differently than I did.