Election day in Pennsylvania, if you have reports, post them
I voted by absentee/mail ballot, but I stopped by my precinct poll to check if my absentee ballot was on the list. The parking lot was full when I arrived about 8:30, but my poll is in a church community building and the lot shares its space with another building (not sure what it is) and there were people outside that unrelated building. There was a small line inside, maybe 8 people waiting to sign in. I saw the judge of elections, told her I wanted to check if my ballot was on the precincts mail/absentee ballot list. It was.
The mail vote list was printed out on 8x10 sheets. My best guess is probably 25-30 pages with about 25 names per page, maybe about 500-600 mail ballots total.
I chatted for a minute or so saying I was surprised there was no line. She replied people were lined up at 6:30 the length of the parking lot. I asked how many had voted already and she estimated around 300. When I left, the parking lot was emptying out with a few voters trickling in. The voters I saw were mixed, older couples, younger couples with kids, unaccompanied women, 1 older woman first time voter, but not a lot of unaccompanied men. One younger woman who went in was asked by the R campaign rep if she wanted a card of the R candidates, but she replied "no, straight republican". Make of this info what you will.
In 2020, 1487 votes were cast in my precinct which always turns out at a high percentage.
If the turnout is roughly the same, that would mean about 2/3rds of the vote has already been cast FTR, my precinct is pretty red.
I also visited a poll in the small city adjacent to where I live. This is Democratic territory. The two young ladies who were handing out literature told me there was a line to vote when that poll opened and estimated about 200 people had voted. While I was chatting for a few minutes, there was a steady trickle of voters, most of who were AfAm, serveral of whom were younger AfAm men.
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