The Early Voter Gets the Groom by La Toya HankinsAvery paused from reading her second favorite Zora Neale Hurston book and looked around the half-empty church fellowship hall. It was day five of early voting, and on this fine fall Friday, the election workers outnumbered voters three to one at Election Site Nine. This year marked her third year of election work, and Avery couldn’t remember it being this slow.
Her seat at the help desk provided the perfect vantage point to observe the sporadic flow of voters going through the verification process. Twelve steps to their left transported them to the table where they would be issued their ballots. From there, they only needed to take twenty steps to the bank of booths that allowed them the privacy to vote their values. Most voters completed t
