Checked into a hotel now, after working at a poll site from 4:30am to 9:30pm today. I'm now quarantined in the room for the rest of the week while things go on, then will get a rapid COVID test to ensure I met 650 voters and didn't catch anything.
It was great to see so much.
It was great to see so much.
Nobody who came in to vote (or run the polling site) avoided wearing a mask. A few people had the mask-under-nose thing that's more clumsy than anything else. Dozens wore rubber gloves. Nobody shook hands or tried to high five.
Two people were cranked when it turned out they had come to the wrong polling place. Most who were told (about a dozen) just took the directions to the new place and headed off. Pretty much everyone was polite.
One guy did a relatively weird "I voted a few days ago and want to see if my vote is noticed", with a reasonably plausible "I just want to ensure the system's working" that didn't FEEL qanony or something., but it was weird. (It did in fact see his vote, wouldn't let it again.)
I can see birthdays, and 3 voters were 89 or 90. Some voters needed younger family members to escort them to their machine and through the process.
My common joke was if a kid came with a parent, I would go 'And what office are YOU running for?" and most were chuckles but one girl in a stroller went "I AM FOUR AND A HALF AND I WEIGH 40 POUNDS. MY MOTHER IS 36." I loved this child.
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