Civic service fulfilled

[jennlk]

Another long day at the polls. We counted over 1300 ballots in a precinct of about 2000 registered voters. Another 500 or so voted in person. There was a line for voting. Usually, 500 in-person voters is easy and a nice steady day, but with COVID halving the number of voting stations, things got slow. And there was a challenger - I wasn't working the live floor, so I don't know what pretext he was challenging voters on. But the chairs said that he was very polite about it all, unlike the ones they had in August. They really need a larger space to hold elections in, but there isn't one in the precinct.... :( (theoretically, the hall at the Rod & Gun club is bigger, but it's down about five miles of dirt road, and there are a lot of people who don't even know where it is. There are probably a lot of people who don't even know it exists!)

Also, donated blood last week, for four donations on the year, all since March. COVID sero-test is negative.