I Voted. Early.
Nov. 3rd, 2024 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI voted my ballot today at the local election precinct. I filled it out in advance; it had been mailed to me. I had several ways to submit my vote. I decided I would hand-carry it into the polling station, submit it through the electronic reader, and confirm that the scanner read all my selections correctly.
The polling station was quiet when I went today around 11am. My spouse is volunteering there as an aide. She and the other volunteers say it has been slow all week. Of course, it's still before election day. It's possible a lot of people are holding out until the 6th. It's also possible that with numerous days to vote early, plus the options of dropping off a sealed ballot at a dropbox or mailing it, there just won't be that many people coming to old-fashioned polling stations.
The polling station was big, though. It's in a community center in a nearby city park. It has been one of the polling locations for probably decades around here, but this time they had multiple rooms going for voting instead of just one. There were lots of volunteers working it, more than I've ever seen before around here. There were signs and arrows and a one-way path through the building we had to follow. Including leaving through a door on the opposite side of the building from where we came in.
It's like they're expecting trouble.
The polling station was quiet when I went today around 11am. My spouse is volunteering there as an aide. She and the other volunteers say it has been slow all week. Of course, it's still before election day. It's possible a lot of people are holding out until the 6th. It's also possible that with numerous days to vote early, plus the options of dropping off a sealed ballot at a dropbox or mailing it, there just won't be that many people coming to old-fashioned polling stations.
The polling station was big, though. It's in a community center in a nearby city park. It has been one of the polling locations for probably decades around here, but this time they had multiple rooms going for voting instead of just one. There were lots of volunteers working it, more than I've ever seen before around here. There were signs and arrows and a one-way path through the building we had to follow. Including leaving through a door on the opposite side of the building from where we came in.
It's like they're expecting trouble.
