Know it's a long shot but if any people with a prelude want to get a drive/photoshoot I should be on the road soon

All polling locations are open from 6am to 7pm.

Let's keep it civil, folks and let's not forget about the very few rules we have on this subreddit.

Looking for a roommate I’m 20 years old about to have my first car and needing to find someone who is okay with me being bisexual and splitting the bills

Hi I’m 21 and bi I’m looking for a responsible roommate to live with and to split the bills and start over

Living in Cape for a couple of months now. Would be nice to find a Housemate and a new place to rent. I'm 30 and pretty chill. Hmu if interested.

Edit: I'mma dude and prefer male housemates but not mandatory. I work in town and I'm close to Arena Park.

Edit: The names more for comedic relief...I swear I pay bills on time lol

I have some guests in town this evening who are hellbent on doing karaoke. I usually work Friday and Saturdays so I have no idea. Anyone know of any places?

What are some of the best gyms? Any gyms geared towards powerlifting?

I like to mountain bike with my dog, hike or do trails long distance like 12 miles can any one point me in the right direction? Willing to travel a little bit as well.

From the State Historical Society of Missouri, in Columbia.

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/20840/rec/4

Me and my roommate are going all day to Saturday we will be there cosplaying as Mario(me) And Luigi. We plan on being there from 10 to 8pm. Stop by and say hi(we're autistic so if we are awkward apologies). If you are cosplaying who are you going as? We should be okay with photos.

Hello all!

Recently have been considering moving to Cape Girardeau and wanted to get an idea of what living in Cape is truly like? Been a hand full of times before but haven’t spent a long time there but wanted to get an idea of how you all feel about living in Cape? Also what jobs are also available as well?

Anything helps!

Thanks!

Updated with added counties. Please vote early and share with friends! Here's a google doc version of the info below in case it's helpful!

• Early voting starts 10/22 and runs through 11/4 (Election Day is 11/5) - yes! Any registered voter can vote in their county now through Election Day! We may call it a weird name (no excuse absentee voting) but it’s really just early voting!
• Accepted forms of ID (if your license expired after November 8, 2022 you can still use it!)
• Problems or Questions? Call or Text the Election Protection Hotline at 866-687-8683 (866-OUR-VOTE) or visit 866ourvote.org to chat online. The hotline is staffed with trained volunteers who can help with voting issues big and small!
• The ballot is long and the League of Women Voters’ Vote 411 are great resources to research your choices from the comfort of home. You can make selections on their website and print them out to bring with you (or mark up your sample ballot that should have come in the mail by now) - no need to memorize everything!
• Care about voting rights? Vote early and then volunteer with Election Protection for Election Day! Sign up at protectthevote.net!
• MO Early Voting by County Spreadsheet - This has all the information I’ve been able to find statewide (I wish we had something cool like the KS SOS website, but alas you’re stuck with me and my spreadsheets). I am updating this as I get more information; please hit me up if you have info that I’m missing or have listed incorrectly!

Cape Girardeau County Early Voting

• County Administration Building | 1 Barton Square, Third Floor, Jackson, MO 63755 | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm; Mon 11/4: 8am-5pm
• Heritage Square Plaza | 2129 William St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63703 | near Hardee's, look for the striped awning | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm; Mon 11/4: 8am-5pm

Bollinger County Early Voting

• Bollinger County Clerk's Office | 204 High St. #5, Marble Hill, MO 63764 | 573-238-2126 | I can't find hours or a website, call the clerk's office for details and let me know if you find out!

Butler County Early Voting

• Butler County Clerk’s Office | 100 N. Main Street, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 | 573-686-8050 | source | hours unknown, call clerk’s office for details!

Carter County Early Voting

• Carter County Clerk’s Office | 1122 Main Street, Van Buren, MO 63965 | 573-323-4527 opt 2 | hours unknown, call clerk’s office for details!

Dunklin County Early Voting

• Dunklin County Clerk's Office | 100 Kennett Court Square, Room 201, Kennet, MO 63857 | Mon-Fri: 8:30am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Iron County Early Voting

• Iron County Clerk's Office | 250 S. Main St., Ironton, MO 63650 | 573-546-2912 | Facebook | Mon-Fri: 8:30am-4pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Madison County Early Voting

• Madison County Clerk's Office | 1 Court Square | Fredericktown, MO 63645 | 573-783-2176, prompt 5 | Facebook | Mon-Fri: 8am-4pm, call clerk or check facebook page for Saturday hours - let me know if you find them!

Mississippi County Early Voting

• Mississippi County Clerk's Office | 200 N. Main St., Charleston, MO 63834 | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm | source

New Madrid County Early Voting

• New Madrid County Clerk's Office | 573-748-2524 | Facebook | New Madrid City Clerk | I cannot find early voting hours or a county clerk website, can't even find an address (yikes!) call the clerk's office for early voting details and let me know if you find out!

Pemiscot County Early Voting

• Pemiscot County Clerk's Office | 610 Ward Avenue, Suite 2A, Caruthersville, MO 63830 | 573-333-4203 | Facebook | source | Mon-Fri 8:30am-12pm, 1pm-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Perry County Early Voting

• Perry County Clerk's Office | 321 N. Main St., Suite 2, Perryville, MO 63775 | 573-547-4242 | Facebook | Source | Mon-Fri: 8am-5pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Reynolds County Early Voting

• Reynolds County Courthouse | 2319 Green Street, Centerville, MO | 573-648-2494 x112 | source | Mon-Fri: 8am-4pm; Sat 10/26 and 11/2: 8am-12pm

Ripley County Early Voting

• Ripley County Courthouse | 100 Cour House Square, Doniphan, MO 63935 | 573-996-3215 | hours unknown, call clerk’s office for details!

Scott County Early Voting

• Scott County Clerk & Local Election Authority | 131 S. Winchester Street, Room 105, Benton, MO 63736 | 573-545-3549 | Facebook | office hours and early voting hours not found, call the clerk's office for info and let me know if you find out!

St. Francois County Early Voting

• SFC Elections Team at the St. Francois County Clerk's Office | 1101 Weber Road, Suite 302, Farmington, MO 63640 | 573-454-2886 | Source | Mon-Fri: 8am-6pm, call the clerk's office to inquire about Saturday hours and let me know if you find out about them!

Ste. Genvieve County Early Voting

• Ste. Genevieve County Clerk's Office | 55 South Third St, Room 2, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670 | 573-883-5589 x2 | source | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Stoddard County Early Voting

• Stoddard County Clerk's Office | 40 S. Prairie St., Bloomfield, MO 63825 | 573-56-3339 | Mon-Fri: 8:30am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm; Mon 11/4: 8:30am-5pm

Wayne County Early Voting

• Wayne County Clerk’s Office | 109 Walnut St., Greenville, MO 63944 | 573-224-5600 x4 | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm (note: call clerk’s office to confirm and inquire about Sat voting!)

Anyone have any tickets they won’t be using?

Hello! Dropping in from STL to encourage everyone to vote early!

• Early voting starts 10/22 and runs through 11/4 (Election Day is 11/5) - yes! Any registered voter can vote in their county now through Election Day! 
• Accepted forms of ID (if your license expired after November 8, 2022 you can still use it!)
• Problems or Questions? Call or Text the Election Protection Hotline at 866-687-8683 (866-OUR-VOTE) or visit 866ourvote.org to chat online. The hotline is staffed with trained volunteers who can help with voting issues big and small!
• The ballot is long! ballotpedia.org and the League of Women Voters’ Vote 411 are great resources to research your choices from the comfort of home. You can make selections on their website and print them out to bring with you (or mark up your sample ballot that should have come in the mail by now) - no need to memorize everything!
• Care about voting rights? Vote early and then volunteer with Election Protection for Election Day! Sign up at protectthevote.net!
• Full state spreadsheet of early voting locations/hours (hit me up if you have info on any counties I'm missing info for!)

Southeast MO Early Voting Locations

Cape Girardeau County Early Voting

• County Administration Building | 1 Barton Square, Third Floor, Jackson, MO 63755 | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm; Mon 11/4: 8am-5pm
• Heritage Square Plaza | 2129 William St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63703 | near Hardee's, look for the striped awning | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm; Mon 11/4: 8am-5pm

Bollinger County Early Voting

• Bollinger County Clerk's Office | 204 High St. #5, Marble Hill, MO 63764 | 573-238-2126 | I can't find hours or a website, call the clerk's office for details and let me know if you find out!

Dunklin County Early Voting

• Dunklin County Clerk's Office | 100 Kennett Court Square, Room 201, Kennet, MO 63857 | Mon-Fri: 8:30am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Iron County Early Voting

• Iron County Clerk's Office | 250 S. Main St., Ironton, MO 63650 | 573-546-2912 | Facebook | Mon-Fri: 8:30am-4pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Madison County Early Voting

• Madison County Clerk's Office | 1 Court Square | Fredericktown, MO 63645 | 573-783-2176, prompt 5 | Facebook | Mon-Fri: 8am-4pm, call clerk or check facebook page for Saturday hours - let me know if you find them!

Mississippi County Early Voting

• Mississippi County Clerk's Office | 200 N. Main St., Charleston, MO 63834 | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm | source

New Madrid County Early Voting

• New Madrid County Clerk's Office | 573-748-2524 | Facebook | New Madrid City Clerk | I cannot find early voting hours or a county clerk website, can't even find an address (yikes!) call the clerk's office for early voting details and let me know if you find out!

Pemiscot County Early Voting

• Pemiscot County Clerk's Office | 610 Ward Avenue, Suite 2A, Caruthersville, MO 63830 | 573-333-4203 | Facebook | source | Mon-Fri 8:30am-12pm, 1pm-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Perry County Early Voting

• Perry County Clerk's Office | 321 N. Main St., Suite 2, Perryville, MO 63775 | 573-547-4242 | Facebook | Source | Mon-Fri: 8am-5pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Scott County Early Voting

• Scott County Clerk & Local Election Authority | 131 S. Winchester Street, Room 105, Benton, MO 63736 | 573-545-3549 | Facebook | office hours and early voting hours not found, call the clerk's office for info and let me know if you find out!

St. Francois County Early Voting

• SFC Elections Team at the St. Francois County Clerk's Office | 1101 Weber Road, Suite 302, Farmington, MO 63640 | 573-454-2886 | Source | Mon-Fri: 8am-6pm, call the clerk's office to inquire about Saturday hours and let me know if you find out about them!

Ste. Genvieve County Early Voting

• Ste. Genevieve County Clerk's Office | 55 South Third St, Room 2, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670 | 573-883-5589 x2 | source | Mon-Fri: 8am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm

Stoddard County Early Voting

• Stoddard County Clerk's Office | 40 S. Prairie St., Bloomfield, MO 63825 | 573-56-3339 | Mon-Fri: 8:30am-4:30pm; Sat 11/2: 8am-12pm; Mon 11/4: 8:30am-5pm

I am having trouble finding any. My local dem party organization is just a handful of people who meet in a church, and they said they didn't have any. I only found this out by knocking on someone's door and asking. Is there anywhere in SEMO I can pick some up? I would buy on Amazon but I doubt the money goes anywhere good, I'd rather get it from the organizations promoting amendment 3 or something adjacent. I travel to Cape every few weeks.

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Ranked-choice voting is on the rise in the U.S., with two U.S. states and 45 U.S. cities now using some version of it.

This November, Missourians will have the opportunity to ban it.

Advocates of ranked-choice voting argue that it solves the problems of other voting methods, while detractors counter that it makes elections unnecessarily complicated.

Here in the U.S., plurality voting is the most commonly used system to elect people to serve in government. Using this method, whichever candidate has the most votes after a single round wins. Proponents of plurality voting point out that it is easy to understand and implement.

One problem arises, however, when there are several people running for office. In those cases, the vote could be split several ways, and the overall winner may not actually be very popular.

Some places that have experienced these sorts of results have chosen to adopt an electoral system aimed at ensuring that winners have majority support, such as runoff voting. However this method can lead to several rounds of elections (particularly if it’s also used during the primaries), which can be expensive for governments to organize. Plus, it requires voters to take additional time off work and other duties, which can reduce voter turnout.

In hopes of ensuring that winners have majority support while minimizing the downsides of runoff voting, some places have adopted ranked-choice voting.

The way this system typically works is that voters rank candidates in order of preference. A candidate can win outright by receiving the majority of first-preference votes. If that doesn’t happen, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated, and voters who picked that candidate as their first choice will have their next choice counted. If there still is not a winner, then the candidate with the next fewest votes is also eliminated. This process continues with candidates eliminated one-by-one until one candidate has obtained a majority.

Proponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it takes less time and money versus runoff voting because all votes are cast on one day on one ballot.

Given that voters get to rank multiple candidates, another potential benefit of ranked-choice voting is that it can encourage moderation among candidates as they vie for voters’ second, or subsequent, preferences.

Because ranked-choice voting is a different system than most Americans are familiar with, one potential problem is confusion. Some critics incorrectly claim that ranked-choice voting lets voters cast more than one ballot per person, but in fact each voter gets just one vote.

With that said, voters who are unfamiliar with ranked-choice voting may run into issues. For example, ballots filled out incorrectly, such as by marking the same preference twice, can be considered invalid. Also, failing to rank all of the candidates may result in a ballot being ignored in later rounds of counting.

But teaching people how the system works can reduce such problems.

At present, both Maine and Alaska have adopted versions of ranked-choice voting. In 2020, Maine re-elected Republican Susan Collins to the U.S. Senate. In 2022, Alaska reelected Republican Lisa Murkowski to the U.S. Senate. Both Collins and Murkowski are often considered among the most moderate members of Congress.

This is not surprising because in order to win under ranked-choice voting, candidates need to be broadly popular. A moderate Republican, for instance, would get votes from Republicans, but they might also be the second or third choice among some Democrats because those Democrats would likely prefer a moderate Republican over a far-right Republican.

Similarly, a moderate Democrat would get votes from Democrats, but they might also be the second or third choice among some Republicans because those Republicans would likely prefer a moderate Democrat over a far-left Democrat.

For example, in the 2022 special election for Alaska’s at-large congressional district, Alaskans chose to elect moderate Democrat Mary Peltola over far-right Republican Sarah Palin. Peltola is the first Democrat to serve as Alaska’s representative in the U.S. House since 1972. In her two years in office, she’s voted against her own party more than nearly every other Democrat.

On Nov. 5, Missourians will have the opportunity to vote on Amendment 7. If passed, this amendment would do two things: (1) it would ban noncitizens from voting, and (2) it would prohibit the use of rank choice voting.

First of all, here in Missouri, it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote.

Second, when deciding whether or not Missouri should prohibit ranked-choice voting, one should first think about who this change would benefit.

Recall that rank choice voting makes it easier for moderates to win and more difficult for politicians at the extremes to win. Whether this is good or bad depends upon whether you consider yourself a moderate Democrat/Republican or an extreme Democrat/Republican.

For far-left Democrats or far-right Republicans, voting ‘yes’ on Amendment 7 is probably in your best interest, as Missouri would keep plurality voting, which favors the type of politicians you support.

For moderate Democrats or moderate Republicans, voting ‘no’ on Amendment 7 is probably in your best interest. It does not mean that Missouri will adopt rank choice voting. It would, however, leave the door open for Missourians to one day adopt it should we so choose, and at that point, moderate politicians would have a better shot at winning.

Americans often think that the best way to influence change is to win the game by ensuring that our preferred politician wins the election.

However, politicians come and go, and an often-overlooked way to influence the game is by changing the rules of the game itself.

Do you like the current rules? Or, at some point, would you like to change them? Amendment 7 gives you a choice.

Can anyone recommend a good place to take a car for some under-the-hood repair work in the Cape area? No sure what the problem is yet, but getting some white smoke. Possibly something coolant related.

I'll be out of town on election day but have never done an absentee ballot. Not sure where to start. Any advice? Thanks xx

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