voting day in a small townPeople arriving to vote. List of registered voters with their addresses. Reading the ballot and writing in their votes. Most people have seen copies of the ballot before today. Instructions telling people how to fill in ballot. Many people bring their kids. A note in the booths say that kids are not supposed to even touch the marking pens used to mark ballots.
Voting takes place in the main meeting room of Town Hall. Voters go inside and give their names to registrars. These people find the names on the list of registered voters. One registrar handles names beginning with A-K, and the other handles names from L-Z. Once your name is found, you're given a paper ballot to fill in. Before your slide the ballot into the counting machine, you give your name to another pair of registrars who mark your name to show that you in fact voted. In a small town like this one, many people smile as they state their names, because they know that the registrar knows them by sight.
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Commentsdearestfreshness [deleted] says:Thank you for documenting this--the real
America!
Boxboro Lad says:glad you documented this. like donnie's
haying, how much longer will it be like this?
On Your Feet Project Boston says:Nice composition - we used it in our post on
voting day tips for MA residents (giving you
credit, of course): volunteer-boston.blogspot.com/2008/11/electio
n-day-tips-f...
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Really nice scene!
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