There are some reports of people waiting three hours to vote on the first day of Early Voting 🗳

It’s absolutely stupid to wait that long, unnecessary Covid-19 risk with eight more days of early voting left plus Election Day. Or better yet, just do an absentee ballot, making sure to sign the outer envelope and date it, making sure to have it postmarked when dropped off at the post office. Hardly rocket science to have a valid absentee ballot.

Honestly, if the lines don’t tamper down this week I’ll just go to the post office and pay the 55 cents and make sure the clerk postmarks my ballot. No way in hell am I waiting in a line like that, especially when there is not a single competive election locally where the winner is all but certain to have more than 60 percent of the vote.

Hopefully these Early Voting spectacles won’t be a super spreader event for COVID-19. There is a very good chance that at least some of those people in the line have Coronavirus if statistics are to believed. The risk is so high with so many people in closer corners, touching the same pens and tablet computers when they sign in. I understand that democracy is important but it shouldn’t be conducted in a way that risks public health when there are so many safer ways to vote.