Scenes from My Day Monitoring the Polls in Pennsylvania
13 min readNov 11, 2020
On November 2, 2020, I drove four hours from Rochester, NY, to Bellefonte, PA, to crash for four hours in an AirBnB. At 5:45am, I left to finish the trip at a polling place in State College, PA, at 6:30am. For the next 14 hours on Election Day, I was the Democratic Party’s “outside observer” — reporting voter intimidation, troubleshooting any problems that voters had, and informing the…
