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Voting experience

This year I applied to be a poll working. They only had poll watcher positions available so I volunteered. It's cool, it was my first experience working the polls and I really enjoyed the experience. As a poll watcher I am responsible for watching what goes on, watch for anything unusual, any funny business with the workers, equipment, problems, etc. I did all those things, as the watcher, I also saw some things that I didn't expect.

I saw newly married couples come in, excited to be casing their votes together. I saw families with their children and babies in toe, taking them into the booth to cast their votes. As a family they were through the whole process. The kids get real excited cause they got a cool sticker. We have the I Voted stickers, but we also have a child designed special sticker that also said I Voted. I saw people take pictures of themselves or as a group. We did that too. Very proud for me.

I was surprised at how many groups of friends came together to cast their votes. The joy people were feeling before and after voting was amazing. And I loved when a first time voter was identified and everyone, all the workers, just everyone clapped and cheered for them. I had never experienced that when I went and voted on election day. Maybe that was the difference, it is NOT election day. It's early voting, one week ahead of Nov. 5.

I would love to hear your experience with voting this year. Do you wait until election day to vote, or maybe you do mail-in ballots? Do you do vote early and is it an option where you live?

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