It is how it works. Take your mail-in ballot straight to your Election department. They will gladly accept it.

Hours in queue vs more of this shit, are you real? May the leopards find you tasty.

I can't speak about Honolulu, because I've never lived there but in CA there are secure drop boxes conveniently placed all over and there is no line, you just walk or drive up and put it in. It literally takes 2 seconds, I don't see how it could be possible for a backup to occur. I had to do it once when I waited too long and I wanted to make sure I was counted on election day. At your drop boxes is there a person you have to interact with or something?

Honolulu county is only 600 sq-mi and has only 1 million people. San Antonio covers the same land area and has about 2.3M and it is no problem to do in person and drop off. So it’s not logistically impossible. Just do it if you want your vote to count.

I'm in CA. If you have the luxury, the polling districts local to me have ballot dropoff locations a couple weeks leading up to the election. My neighbor has been a poll worker since we moved here and she says it's fairly standard statewide. If I recall reading in prior elections, there should be one in your town/city hall. I'd rather deliver it myself than trust usps

The general public arent paying nearly as much attention

Trump said before he was elected in 2016 that if he didn't win re-election, he would challenge the results. Then he did exactly that. The dude has already openly committed a coup.

At this point, if the public isn't paying attention, it's because the political system is clearly fully committed to letting Trump do whatever he wants.

That's not going to happen.

What will happen, assuming he's successful, is the Democrats will quietly fall in line after a few weeks of posturing. There will be lawsuits, and the courts will ultimately decide in Trump's favor.

Unrest comes when people have their way of life existentially threatened through hunger or homelessness. Or when their position within the caste is in question.

Unrest will come from the Right if they lose. When the undecideds and liberals lose an election, they say "damn, better luck next time" and move on. They aren't willing to do anything that might jeopardize their comfortable way of life.

The people pushed to the margins will be further castigated, and find themselves in an even more dangerous position.

Unrest will come from the margins. People with nothing, and everything, to lose. The police will be granted further impunity to kill, and POC/LGBTQ+ will die. They'll protest, and they'll be killed by cops and right wing nutjobs alike. And no help will come. "Allies" will start to go quiet if the violence gets particularly bad and those communities will learn who their true friends are.

Arm yourselves. Violence is coming regardless of who wins in November.

It’s not entirely hopeless. It just requires millions upon millions of us to take unified action.

We can refuse to comply with anything en masse. Refuse to work. Refuse to pay our bills and taxes. Refuse to engage. They can use their authority to harass a small portion of us, but there’s nothing they can do to intimidate millions of us.