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3 Nov, 3 tweets, 3 min read
I'm here at the Burton Coliseum Complex in Lake Charles, where they've put 30 precincts in one location because so many polling places were damaged by #HurricaneLaura and #HurricaneDelta. This is the biggest polling location in Louisiana today. #laelex
Not sure if this photo really captures the situation but there is a very long line just to park your car in the coliseum's parking lot. It's well over 100 cars deep at 10 am. It moves pretty quickly though. I got myself parked in about 10 minutes. #laelex
Inside the Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles - where they've put 30 precincts after hurricanes trashed original polling places - things are moving pretty fast! You have to walk through a maze of metal gates...but there are no choke points. #laelex

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Julie O'Donoghue Profile picture
3 Nov
To accommodate social distancing, they've also stuck voting machines in hallways in the coliseum....They aren't just on the main arena floor. Last week, election officials told there would be about 100 machines in the building. #laelex
This is kind of nice. Every time there's a new voter, an election official yells "FIRST TIME VOTER!" and everyone cheers. #laelex
And here's the voting scene on the main floor of the coliseum in Lake Charles. I count almost 70 machines. As I said earlier, there are more in the hallways. #laelex
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2 Nov
NEW PODCAST: I interviewed @Louisiana_sos (who oversees the state's elections) about what to expect on election day tomorrow. lailluminator.com/podcast/what-t… #lalege #lagov
.@Louisiana_sos says he expects voter turnout overall to be around 70 percent which he characterized as being "about the norm" for a presidential election. The 2016 presidential election turnout was about 68 percent. #lalege #lagov
.@Louisiana_sos also said people should prepare themselves to not know the election results until Wednesday because some parishes might not be able to finish counting until then. At best, he thinks returns will come in after midnight. #lalege #lagov
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16 Sep
I'll get off this @LSUfootball stuff after this last comment.

My concern is that one of the most powerful institutions in the state (LSU) hasn't been honest or transparent about what's happening with #COVID19 when it was in their best interest not to be honest about it.
It's not really about whether players should be playing football or not. It's about the fact that @LSU is making a lot of decisions right now that could potentially affect the health of hundreds of thousands of people in our state.
With football, they spun a narrative that practices were safe -- implying that players weren't contracting the virus. Clearly they were.

So what does that mean when LSU tells us it is safe to hold in-person classes? To have dorms open? To have people in Tiger Stadium?
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26 Mar
Today, I had an extended interview with St. Louis County Executive @DrSamPage about the region's response to the #coronavirus. You can listen to it on the Politically Speaking podcast feed through your iPhone/Android...OR by going to this link. news.stlpublicradio.org/post/political…
In the interview, @DrSamPage started off saying one of the biggest challenges in containing the #coronavirus is the lack of widespread testing.

"The news of the day really is we don't have enough testing. ...It completely changes how we approach this public health emergency."
.@DrSamPage says there is a "reasonable chance" that his "stay-at-home" order for St. Louis County might extend beyond it's April 22nd deadline.

Page said the high point for #coronavirus cases in the St. Louis area is likely to be in late April, though it's hard to predict.
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13 Mar
A little bit of an update on my personal #coronavirus situation....

My spouse got tested this afternoon at @FollowMercy in St. Louis County. We were told they would tell us the result of the test in 48 hours.
This morning, the City of St. Louis health department called us and said that we might qualify for testing because the federal government now deems people who have traveled to France to be high-risk. We were in France last week for our honeymoon.
Reminder: Our travel to France did not allow us to be tested on Tuesday when my spouse had a fever. I'm not sure if what has changed is that @realDonaldTrump has banned travel from France or what...but the health department official said the situation had changed overnight.
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11 Mar
So here's my personal #coronavirus story....

My spouse and I got back from our honeymoon in Paris yesterday. This morning, my spouse woke up with a mild fever. We decided to call his doctor and the city health department to notify them since we had been overseas.
Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't have taken my spouse to the doctor for this mild illness. But of course, we don't want to be spreading #COVID19. My spouse is also on an immunosuppressant so I wanted to make sure he was ok. He is a "high risk" person.
So we put on masks and went to the doctor's office...We called ahead...but there were still a lot of elderly folks going in and out of that office when we got there. We kept as far away from them as possible. Some people in working in the doctor's office wore masks. Some didn't.
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