Them and stacks of ballots packed away for late night scanning.
In 1976, Pres Gerald Ford visited Champaign, Illinois, and drew a crowd of about 1000 at a high school. I was 24 and not very political. I didn’t care much one way or the other about Ford, but went and stood along the route of his motorcade. People were 2-4 deep, at least where I was. The two things I remember: 1) I was surprised at how emotional I was at seeing our president, and 2) Ford’s car had an open roof and he was standing up and waving to the crowd (surprising to me that presidents still exposed themselves to the public like that).