Waving and relying on you guys as no guts to watch the results.
Voted at 2 in the afternoon in a Republican town on the MA/RI border. No one in front of us and I don’t think there was anyone following us. Must have been four or five stations in the room and it contained mostly poll people. Everyone cheerful. Indoor masks and the person I chatted with kept hers below her nose. All the signholders outside were for local candidates. No signs for Biden OR for Trump. Polling place was a grammar school but, not having children, I don’t know if kids are in school in MA now or not.
Voting is so important to me that I actually thought about voting in advance, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. One advantage of self-quarantine is that I figured I was unlikely to be hit by a truck and miss the chance to vote for Trump. So waited and giggled my way thru the process and thanked everyone for being there on my happy day.
Ballot safety. There was none. I did wave to city hall workers I recognized, but no one asked me for any ids or checked me against any other list. I did feel a wave of gratitude that no one thought I’d already voted. When I tried to put my ballot in after marking it, the machine got finicky and I let the worker put it in with the Trump vote side up. She was better at it and insisted that I wait and watch the window that showed I successfully voted. Did I mention this is a Republican town in a Dem state?
Thanks for the update. We have paper ballots that we feed into the machine too. Last time I had trouble with the feed. This time it was all ok.
We have to show id. and sign-electronic used to be paper. They required you to use sanitizer before entering and they clean the pens with disinfectant wipe before handing it to you, and then you turn the pen in on the way out. No masks required. Mostly bare faces behind plexiglass.