Volume 22, Issue 11
Features
Voting for . . . Voting
Election Day where I live
Nov 21, 2016
Dorset, Vt.
In the morning on Election Day, I went up to the school building where people in my town go to vote. When I got there, a little after eight, things were already in progress and, as usual, going smoothly and efficiently. You walk through a door, into the gym, and identify yourself to one of two people sitting behind a table. Each of them has a list of registered voters. There isn’t a problem with picture IDs or any of that. Everybody knows everybody.
The person who checks for your name on the printed sheet really doesn't have to. You see each other in church or your kids went to school together. Something like that.
"Oh, hello," she will say. "Haven't seen you for a while.
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