Everyone here is wearing a mask:
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"Outside Riverside High School in Milwaukee – where officials were forced to close 175 of 180 normal voting sites due to a lack of poll workers – masked voters stood several feet apart in a line that stretched for several blocks as polls opened on Tuesday morning, according to videos and photos posted on Twitter.
...The election took place even though Wisconsin, like most U.S. states, has imposed a stay-at-home order on its residents. More than a dozen other states have postponed their elections in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed Americans’ daily lives and plunged the economy into an apparent recession.
A flurry of 11th-hour legal wrangling on Monday failed to stop the balloting, despite warnings from Democratic officials that thousands of voters would be forced to choose between their safety and their rights.
...Some Wisconsin cities resorted to “drive-through” voting. In Beloit, a city of about 37,000 people along the Illinois border, poll workers brought ballots to drivers’ windows after verifying photo identification and residency, then returned the filled-out paperwork to a counting machine.
...in the village of Somerset, where two National Guard members were stationed, clerk Felicia Germaine said turnout appeared to be significantly lower than usual. Voters gave one another space while waiting, thanks to strips of tape on the ground to encourage social distancing.
“It’s almost like a big game of adult hopscotch,” said Cherie Link, a state Senate candidate who was volunteering as a poll worker.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...d-with-presidential-primary-despite-mounting/
"Outside Riverside High School in Milwaukee – where officials were forced to close 175 of 180 normal voting sites due to a lack of poll workers – masked voters stood several feet apart in a line that stretched for several blocks as polls opened on Tuesday morning, according to videos and photos posted on Twitter.
...The election took place even though Wisconsin, like most U.S. states, has imposed a stay-at-home order on its residents. More than a dozen other states have postponed their elections in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed Americans’ daily lives and plunged the economy into an apparent recession.
A flurry of 11th-hour legal wrangling on Monday failed to stop the balloting, despite warnings from Democratic officials that thousands of voters would be forced to choose between their safety and their rights.
...Some Wisconsin cities resorted to “drive-through” voting. In Beloit, a city of about 37,000 people along the Illinois border, poll workers brought ballots to drivers’ windows after verifying photo identification and residency, then returned the filled-out paperwork to a counting machine.
...in the village of Somerset, where two National Guard members were stationed, clerk Felicia Germaine said turnout appeared to be significantly lower than usual. Voters gave one another space while waiting, thanks to strips of tape on the ground to encourage social distancing.
“It’s almost like a big game of adult hopscotch,” said Cherie Link, a state Senate candidate who was volunteering as a poll worker.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...d-with-presidential-primary-despite-mounting/
