Guess what I did Friday Afternoon?

[thewayne]

Stood in line for a good 45 minutes in 90 degree sun, and it felt really good after two hours in the library at about 70 degrees. I had my baseball hat on and was able to stand with my arms behind me in sort of a parade rest, so no sunburn.

I didn't expect much of a line for 2:15 in the afternoon!

Most people, like me, were masked, the voting stations were distanced and were cleaned between users. Even the pens were dumped in a bucket to be disinfected, so the virus was definitely being taken into account.

Early in-person voting started Tuesday in New Mexico at the County Secretary's station, and I was in the 1300s. Mail-in early voting started earlier, I wanted to do it in-person. Additional voting stations open in about two weeks.

Absolutely no griefing, no poll-watchers, no interference of any sort.

Comments

[bibliofile]

Hooray!

[thewayne]

Wife is waiting for the fairgrounds to open, dunno why. Not sure what Dave is waiting for, his sleep schedule is royally screwed up and inverted right now.

[silveradept]

Huzzah for getting your vote done before the rush (and the official attempts at interference).

[thewayne]

There's rumors of Federal Marshals in NM, for what reason I dunno. And if there's a 45 minute in the first week, I can't imagine what it'll be later in the month!

[howsmyenglish]

Well done, you as well as the organizers of that. I wish people over here could take the virus that seriously...

[thewayne]

There's still plenty here not taking it seriously. I'm driving up to Albuquerque for plunder today, it'll be interesting to see how many people are masked.