The season finale of everyone's favorite reality TV show, Election! is currently in full swing (slog?) here in the US. Opted to tune into Photoshop instead, so here's some photos from the local scenes.
Wandered down to the neighborhood high school turned polling place this morning, to write my name a bunch and see if my photojournalist hat still fit.
Ever have those dreams where you just keep finding pistols in your pockets? Got a late start to the morning thanks to a few of those, which turned out to be my good luck and misfortune.
There were issues early in the morning which resulted in hour(s) long lines and difficulties voting but by the time this night owl flew in that had dissipated. Not sad about missing out on standing in line but I was hoping for some shots of that.
In Kentucky, the polls close at 6 pm. With the recent time change, golden hour starts well before that, so I moseyed back to the polls around 1630. Was hoping for lines of after work voters in the setting sun but it was just gloom and a steady trickle of folks.
And some rather tired poll workers. Didn't get the chance to speak with them much but some had been there since 0600 or earlier. This one was counting down the minutes until the doors closed, twelve hours was enough.
Everybody got an explanation of the ballot before they were turned loose to play fill in the dots. Apparently that's not the same as connect the dots.
I know that look. The poll worker in the white shirt has an expression not dissimilar from the one restaurant staff get when a customer walks in two minutes before closing time.
We now returned you to your regularly scheduled dystopia . . .
