Municipal Election Precautions (6-2-20)

Municipal Election Precautions (6-2-20)

You may have noticed something different at your polling place, and we're not just talking about today's date.

Kq2's ron johnson spoke with election officials and voters about how they're approaching elections post covid-19.

<<ron johnson reportingit's an election day like no other, the first in st.

Joseph since the covid-19 pandemic.

Everything's clean, everything's sanitized and ready for us to go.

Election organizers and volunteers pulling double duties, maintaining the voting process while also keeping the voting area properly cleaned.

We all came from our covid-19 kits and so we have gloves if anybody wants to wear them, masks if they want to wear them, sanitizer.election officials said the level of detail when it comes to maintaining that cleanliness is higher than ever before.at this particular polling place booths were set up two to a table instead of three to promote social distancing.

Voters were also encouraged to maintain their distance during their entire voting experience with signage.

And shared items such as pens and styluses no two people touch the same stylus without it being cleaned.

Despite these measures, organizers are still expecting only about 10% of the voting population to show up, they say concerns over catching the virus are likely keeping people away .

Our turnout today is about what was expected its a low turnout but those who did show up said there wasn't much to worry about.

I didn't expect anything less, like i knew that we would be taken care of.

It was pretty just knowing what we were coming in for.

In fact, they said with so much going right now, it was all the more important to show up at the pollsit's our right as citizens to vote letting your voice be heard is so important especially in the times that we're living.

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