Now that election day is past, some retrospection is in order.
I stayed true to my election day ritual. At 5:35 a.m. I followed a neighbor out of our addition to the precinct polling place to stand in line waiting for the doors to open. After hearing friends complain about two and three hour waits to vote early because apparently everyone had the same idea, I expected things to be rather deserted at the polls. Not so. There were about 50 people already lined up ahead of me, the most I have experienced in my 25 years of voting there.
Even more surprising was the 50 or more behind me by the time the doors opened at 6. I had a flight out of Fort Wayne at 9, so I wondered if I could make it, given the reports from early voting times…