WHY I URGE EVERY REGISTERED VOTER IN THE UNITED STATES TO PLEASE CAST YOUR BALLOT THIS WEEK OR NEXT WEEK, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, IN THE NOVEMBER 3 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND GENERAL ELECTION

---If you wait until November 3, 2020, to vote, you might wake up sick that morning and are physically unable to get to a polling place.

---If you wait until the final day, November 3, to vote, you might be subjected to possible verbal intimidation tactics by a group of Trump supporters outdoors near the polling place --- intimidation tactics that could scare you away from entering the polling place in order to cast your own vote for Democratic Party Presidential Candidate Joe Biden.

--You might be so concerned about the Presidential Election that you forget to take your blood-pressure medications on the morning of Election Day. This results in your sustaining a heart attack at your workplace, with an Emergency Medical Services crew transporting you from your workplace to a hospital emergency room for treatment that will require a multi-day stay in the hospital's intensive care unit.

--If you wait until November 3 to vote, you might find at 6:30 p.m. that day that the polling place you were planning to vote at shortly before the polls closed was not in fact being used in this particular General Election, and you have no chance of getting to another polling place by 7 p.m. that is actually open.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, some member of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group could convert you to their denomination in the meantime, with your new membership as a subscriber of that faith requiring you to immediately refrain from voting in government-sponsored elections, since that would involve you with sinful secular institutions that you must now strive to avoid having any contact with.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, you could be at risk of law-breaking Trump supporters seeking to kidnap you that morning after they identified you as a Biden supporter through illegal wiretapping of your phone and illegal electronic surveillance of your private e-mail correspondence.

---If you wait until Election Day to vote, you face an increased risk of a stranger with a Russian accent approaching you on a public sidewalk as you attempt to walk to the polling place, with that complete stranger stating to you in an ominous-sounding voice that if you vote for Joe Biden, that stranger's KGB associates will make sure you get poisoned later that day.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, the multi-week waiting period will increase the likelihood that some deeply religious "opinion-leader" friend or relative of yours who has influenced your own conduct in the past might advise you that you should not dwell in such a crassly secular world as a polling place, and your own focus should instead be on praising God Almighty inside a house of worship; and so. guided by your friend or relative, you choose instead to exalt God by praying rather than actually voting.

--If you wait until November 3 to vote, you will have extra time to reflect on the fact that you yourself have never once shaken hands with or met in person with any of the candidates in the current election. Wouldn't it be very superficial of you to claim to somehow "know" any of these persons or claim the capacity to judge them in any way, when you have never even met them in person, you might think to yourself on election day.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, you might find to your astonishment that in your several weeks of procrastination you had failed to check your voter registration card in order to confirm that you are currently registered to vote, when in fact (as you learn to your horror at the polling place on Election Day) your voter registration card had expired several months ago.

---You could lose your driver's license early on November 3 by an odd coincidence in which you as a motorist were stopped on the roadway by a law-enforcement officer for allegedly exceeding the speed limit, and after you presented your driver's license to that officer as proof of your own identity, you somehow misplaced that driver's license inside your own vehicle after the officer handed it back to you.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, you might conclude that you don't like any of the candidates enough to actually vote for any of them, so it would be very hypocritical of you to claim otherwise by casting a vote for any of them.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, you might be surprised to find that your car's ignition doesn't start on November 3 and your home is located many miles from the nearest polling place. You don't have the money to pay for a taxi, and none of your friends or relatives are available on November 3 to give you a ride to the nearest polling place.

--If you are a heavyset smoker with heart disease, you might not be alive on November 3, 2020, in order to vote. You could test positive for COVID-19 on November 2, and then, a matter of hours later, a television news report publicly announces that you are the most recent person to die on election day, "and sadly the election officials say they are unable to accept posthumous votes," as the reporter for a local television station might declare with a hint of a smirk on his face. "However, surviving relatives of the deceased tells us they are very sure he was definitely planning to vote for Joe Biden, so they plan to do everything they can to befriend Joe Biden and the Democratic Party as a way of honoring their deceased relative."

--If you wait until November 3 to get in your car in order to drive to the polling place, your car could have a flat tire at 6:30 p.m. as you are driving toward the polling station.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, you could be involved in a motor-vehicle accident on Election Day that sends you to the hospital by ambulance for medical treatment, and you are not permitted by the emergency room physician to leave the hospital until the following morning.

--If you wait until November 3, you could experience intense road rage toward another motorist as you drive toward the polling station. If you verbally assault that motorist who enraged you, you get arrested by a local law-enforcement officer and be held in jail overnight.

---You might have a sudden and major family crisis erupt on November 2 or early on the morning of November 3, and that traumatic crisis in your life could make it virtually impossible for you to achieve your personal goal of voting in the Presidential Election on Election Day.

---Your pregnant wife could announce to you on Election Day that she was experiencing labor pains a month before her doctor had predicted, and she now felt very sure she would be giving birth to her infant son that same day, with your wife proposing that you compromise by naming your infant son "Joseph" in honor of the Presidential Candidate you had planned on voting for that day.

---You could get fired from your job on November 2 and respond to that career-related crisis of yours by getting drunk the night of November 2 and then waking up on November 3 with a hangover so severe that you "don't feel like voting since it could aggravate my splitting headache."

---If you wait until November 3, you might find the lines at the polling place to be so long that it would take you two hours longer than you expected in order to cast your ballot on Election Day, which prompts you to decide against voting that day.

---You might pretend to yourself that you are a mathematician and state to yourself that "the odds of any of my favorite candidates losing by just one vote are infinitesimally tiny, so my not voting won't hurt any of my favorite candidates at all."

---You could note that you don't like voting on an odd-numbered day of the month, since that would be very bad luck for you if you did. For that cited reason, you plan to wait until the next general election that falls on an even-numbered day, such as November 4, in order to yourself vote.

---You might think to yourself that you never vote for the winning candidate, anyway, so your voting on November 3 might actually be bad luck for each of the candidates you like the best.

---You might think to yourself that you have not read enough about the issues in order to vote intelligently, so you would prefer to defer to "the more knowledgeable voters" to make that decision for you.

--- You might think to yourself that since you've seen long lines at the polling places during early voting, the outcome of the election has already been decided by those voters, making a vote on Election Day completely pointless, you conclude.

---You could test positive for COVID-19 a few days before the November 3 election, and your doctor tells you that you must be quarantined in isolation throughout the entire election week. The doctor also advises you that if you would very likely infect other voters or polling-place workers if you attempted to drive to a polling place and vote on November 3.

---If you wait until November 3 to vote, your employer might unexpectedly ask you to work more hours than usual on Election Day, with your workshift ending five minutes before 7 p.m., as it turns out, and your personal transportation to the nearest polling place from your workplace will require at least 10 minutes of preparation and driving time for you---meaning that at the very earliest, you could potentially arrive at the polling station as early as 7:05 p.m. in order to be told there by an election official that you that "you are too late to be allowed into this polling place."