Sitrep from rural PA

I went and voted just now - my precinct has about 1,500 registered voters, 372 have voted so far in person. No idea how many have mailed-in, but estimates in the State say about 1/3 of registered voters have mail-in. So maybe 500 of my precinct are mail-ins - so 37.2% have voted in person at mid-day. Likely many will come in and vote after work.

My precinct voted 86% for Trump in 2016, and I figure most of the 14% Dems are active or retired coal miners who have voted Democrat all their lives, just like their daddies and granddaddies did. No idea how many turned to Trump this time, but given all the publicity about the Dems wanting to end fracking and coal mining, the percentage for Trump in my precinct will likely be in the 90s.

>>11432478

Opposite end of the State - Somerset Co.

>>11432546

Luckily my polling place uses paper ballots on which you fill in an oval for each candidate with a pen, then take it and stick it in a scanning machine which reads it and deposits it in a safebox. That way, if the scanner malfunctions, they can still accept and count the paper ballots.

>>11432908

Idiot - amending the Constitution (which has been done 17 times since the Bill of Rights was put in) doesn't entail changing everything; it only addresses a very discrete matter surgically.

>>11432874

No biggie.

The paper ballots are there, safe and secure, and can be counted by hand if need be. Provided the election judges are honest and watched over by poll watchers.

>>11432972

I voted without a muzzle - never wore one anyway - and no one said a thing to me; not even a look of disapproval.