As usual, my wife and I voted on the way to work. For the first time in years we got to go together because she’s travelling for business today and is working from home until it’s time to go to the airport. Weather is good here - the predicted rain showers will hold off until after voting closes this evening and it’s sunny now.

Normally, I am voter #20 or thereabouts at 7:45am. Today, I was voter #80 in my district. This anecdotal evidence shows heavy turnout so far. I just overheard a Pennsylvania co-worker reporting that it took another co-worker 1.5 hours to vote this morning.

The machines were moved from the hallway outside of the auditorium to the cafeteria at the Middle School voting place. The janitor told me that this is because the new machines take up more space (and presumably more outlets). This year’s issues show up in my reaction - I thought the new location was safer because it was farther from the road and parking lot and NOT where the flag was hanging on the building.

My wife and I are a mixed-marriage - one Republican and one Democrat. We both voted our party for President, though she reports being undecided until about the time we got into the car to go vote. She told me who she voted for on the way home, but I drove her all the way home anyway.