Voting in Vienna
Wow. I thought I would outsmart my fellow citizens by getting to my polling station at Nottaway Park in Vienna Virginia at 6:05 a.m., five minutes after it opened. I was in a line that was twice as long as any I had experienced before. It took exactly an hour and a half to vote. This, even though the Washington Post reported this morning that about a quarter of all voters (about 30 million) have already voted. The weather was great and I had some nice conversations with those next to me in line.
After voting, I drove a short distance to the Vienna Metro where I bought a box of Krispy Kreme donuts from a high school fundraiser. They had a sign: No Politics, Just Donuts. I’ll snack to that.