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I voted

Song in my head:
"End Moraine" by Sparta

I voted.

All the talk about long lines and hour-long waits went unfounded for me. At 9:30, I showed up at the church and there were people, but it wasn't crowded. There were three people in front of me and all I did was wait about two minutes to sign in. I got my ballot and it felt like college again. It was on a Scantron sheet. Only this time, after all the years of saying you couldn't use pen on a Scantron, they had a Sharpie to darken in bubbles. Putting my completed ballot into a machine, it went through just fine.

Total time: 10 minutes

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