The Day before Election Day. Donald Trump vs Joe Biden. My duties today were to get the 5 polling sites in the town of Arcadia ready for the big day. Folks come in to serve at around 4:30am Tuesday, and are there all day. A little pre prep saves some time, and also make sure that someone will be there to open the various buildings bright and early. Having to think about traffic flow and distancing in the age of Covid adds another level of challenge. So now my part is done until Tuesday at 9pm when I put on the hat of courier to officially collect the election results from the 5 sites (10 districts) along with any mail-in ballots that have arrived and deliver that to the Board of Elections. Could be a big turn out despite the large early voting crowd.
I hope it goes smoothly and everyone respects this sacred act of democracy.
Speaking of other sacred duties, I have officially been released from the Grand Jury. With Linda and Brian as members of this household being pretty severely endangered by Covid, and me sitting in a windowless room in the basement in downtown Rochester, and 25 other people in there for hours, AND too many not wearing masks... the risk was high and I appreciate the acceptance of my wishes to be dismissed now. I did serve for a year. I can go back to my blissful ignorance of the stupidity and sometimes real evil that goes on out there.
