The early voting was held for four days in my state. Three days of ten hours and one final day of eight.
Rough estimate at this point but we processed about 8K voters, with some voters have multiple ballots.
We had about 18 election workers.
By a large things went smoothly. Most people were very gracious and on Halloween we had several kids and adults in costume. Many of the people show up with their kids in tow, and they are usually well behaved. We give "I voted" stickers to the kids as a treat.
We use a paper ballot with electronic tabulation. There is a very strong chain of custody procedure that is followed concerning the ballots and the tabulation machines.
We had a bit of a problem with one machine rejecting ballots saying they were spoiled, meaning the ballot had more than one candidate chosen or there was a mark where there should not have been one. After careful review of the ballot and then submitting it to a machine that accepted it we closed down the machine. The others functioned without issue.
Only had a few folks that had a burr under their saddle. One lady received her ballot and then walked right up to be and got real close. She proclaimed that she felt this was not a proper private ballot as people could peek over the ballot booth walls and see her ballot. I replied her opinion was noted and responded no further. She went into a nearby booth and started filling it out. She had a question about something on the ballot and came to me and stuck it in my face. I averted my eyes and informed her I was familiar with the ballot, and she could ask her question without showing me her ballot. She told me she hadn't filled it out yet and I said that is not the point, please ask your question then return to the booth.
We had a LOT of spoiled ballots where folks would vote for more than one presidential candidate. When the ballots are rejected the people ask us to review them and see what went wrong. Usually they try to change their vote by writing a note on the ballot. The scanners will not accept this. The people will bring us the ballot to figure it out, we send them to the spoiled ballot official and they are issued a new ballot and the old one is ripped in half and put in a special container. By far the greatest number of spoiled ballots were accidental pen marks in a candidates section. We had several where folks voted for more than one candidate intentionally. Usually elderly people. We had one guy who thought he was supposed to color in every voting block, he went through 4 ballots then left in disgust. He repeatedly declined offers to help.
We offer car voting for the handicapped. They must bring in an able bodied person to act as their agent. They are issued a ballot and then two poll workers escort them to their car and then back to the ballot box. They retain possession of the ballot the entire way. Someone put out the word the people could just pull up to the curb and honk and we would take care of it, even if they had no one assisting them. We had to inform them they were misinformed and that we could not assist them.
Had a few cases of people wearing inappropriate attire and we would inform them they could turn their T shirt inside out or put their hat under their coat. All complied, some with a little grumbling. One woman got mad and said policy doesn't over ride the Bill of Rights and she wanted to see the law. I handed her the laminated sign the issued by the election board that spelled it all out. She zipped up her coat after that. The only people that wore campaign items were tRump supporters.
Many of the people thanked us for our efforts and were very complimentary and when I was confronted by the rude lady many people thanked me for handling it the way I did.
We would let anyone in line at closing time in to vote, often the last vote being cast an hour after closing.
There were lots of first time voters, a few that were well past their 60s.
I will add to this as I remember things that occurred.
