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Collected Item: “Voting Lines Stretched Across Two Parking Lots”

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Voting Lines Stretched Across Two Parking Lots

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

photograph

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

On November 3, 2020 I took a photo of the voting line that was spread across the Legacy Bank and Library parking lots in Blanchard, Oklahoma. The small community has several voting precincts and this is just one of them. At one point it was mentioned that people were waiting up to three hours to vote at this voting location. The crowd appeared to be somewhat spaced apart and some were wearing masks. The pandemic affected how people stood near each other, which would've been normally much closer.

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#ASU, #HSE, #RuralVoices, #USElection2020, #voting, #vote, #waiting, #longlines, #socialdistancing, #mask, #pandemic, #COVID-19

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Clinton P. Roberts

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2020-11-03
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