{"id":4537,"date":"2020-11-04T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:54:44","slug":"durham-votes-scenes-from-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2020\/11\/04\/durham-votes-scenes-from-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham votes: scenes from Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Applause at the end of the night<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n

8:37 p.m. \u2014 The Election Day vote count started when Sheila Robinson pulled into a dark parking lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was the long-anticipated first precinct judge to arrive at the Durham Board of Elections warehouse on South Alston Avenue. Election staffers unloaded cardboard boxes of ballots from her car and moved them onto wooden pallets, shrink-wrapping them for security. Robinson, who was in charge of Precinct 53-1 in south Durham, then wheeled her blue plastic suitcase into the warehouse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She was welcomed with a round of applause, raising her arms and waving them side to side to celebrate an end to a long day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sheila Robinson goes through the audit process with a Board of Elections staffer. Photo by Henry Haggart | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her first stop was a \u201cquick fire\u201d audit, where she handed off result tapes and a USB stick in a pink sandwich bag. Once she passed the initial audit, she approached a second, more comprehensive audit, following the yellow shoe print stickers and green duct tape that told her where to wait.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four staffers in neon yellow vests gathered around her, watching over the shoulder of a fellow staffer as they rattled through a checklist from behind a plexiglass divider. One by one, she returned everything \u2014 her cell phone, charger, keys, and ballots in color-coded totes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robinson passed the second audit and continued to a third table to be checked out. Behind her, staffers moved with rehearsed smoothness \u2014 one dropping the totes in their respective tubs, another bringing the bag with the results into the board\u2019s \u201cunity room,\u201d and another starting a stack of precinct suitcases at the wall behind the check out table.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robinson was in and out in eight minutes, ending her evening with a sandwich donated by a local catering company.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHave a good night,\u201d she called out as she left. \u201cHope it\u2019s a short one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 KALLEY HUANG<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump supporters hopeful in rural Durham <\/strong><\/h2>\n

5:15 p.m. \u2013 Linda Murray, 54, voted for the first time when Donald Trump ran for office in 2016. Tuesday afternoon, she was back to vote for him a second time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Biden gets in, this world is going straight to hell in a handbasket,\u201d Linda said, clutching a black mask emblazoned with \u201cTrump 2020\u2019 and \u201cKeep America Great.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a large Trump\/Pence sign greeting voters as they drove in, the polling site at Bahama Ruritan Club catered to a different kind of voter than most sites in Durham County. Among the many Trump and Tillis signs lining the road, there was only one for Biden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Edwards, 33, stood outside the building next to a green camp chair and a pile of door hangers that listed \u201canti-socialist, pro-police\u201d candidates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s employed by the North Carolina Republican party and had been outside since 6:30 a.m, he said. He wasn\u2019t wearing a mask.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards said that when he recently moved from Greensboro to Durham County, he was worried, knowing that this county mostly supports Democrats. But he soon discovered that this part of Durham was different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I pulled up I seen a Trump Pence sign on the back of a Ford truck. I\u2019m like, well, I don’t have to cover up what I\u2019m wearing today,\u201d he said. Underneath his gray jacket, he was wearing a crimson dress shirt and a striped black, red and white tie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe [other Republican workers] were telling me, they\u2019re like, \u2018brother, we\u2019re probably dropping you off in Trump Nation,\u2019\u201d he said, chuckling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Edwards said that, given the pandemic, Trump has done a good job running the country (except for failing to build the border wall). And he was optimistic about tonight\u2019s results.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think Trump\u2019s going to get it, I really do,\u201d he said. \u201cLast election, they were saying he wasn\u2019t, and he was behind in the polls, and it was close. … He\u2019s got a very, very loyal and very, very deep-seated band of constituents.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After voting, Linda Murray and her husband Thomas, 57, stood next to their Ford Ranger pickup. Since 2017, kidney cancer and an injured back has kept Thomas in bed, and he swayed slightly as he stood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Linda said nothing could keep Thomas from voting to re-elect the president. He\u2019s a big fan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI believe he\u2019d be on his deathbed and he\u2019d get up and go meet [Trump].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trump supporters Linda and Thomas Murray stand outside the polling site at the Bahama Ruritan Club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trump has \u201cdone everything he said he was going to do,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd more,\u201d Thomas added. He had a camo Trump hat on and wore a Hank Williams shirt (he\u2019s a big country music fan).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And if Biden wins?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna load my guns,\u201d Linda said. \u201cI\u2019m telling you, he ain\u2019t taking our guns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Linda said she thinks Biden has dementia, claiming that he couldn\u2019t remember what 9\/11 was about. She also said she appreciated how Trump stood up for people like her and Thomas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just like one of us,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas recalled seeing Trump at a rally on TV where he started dancing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe got down to the people\u2019s level. \u2026 He got rocking like this here,\u201d said Thomas, who started shuffling his body and pumping his fist. \u201cI never heard a president doing that.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>CHRIS KUO<\/b><\/p>\n

The count begins<\/b><\/h2>\n

3 p.m. \u2013 Derek Bowens, Durham\u2019s director of elections, sat stoically in the center of the conference room in a plush leather chair, watching board of elections members leave through an opening in the white chain barrier separating the board and the public. Breaking his orderly character, he strode across the room and stepped over the chain, his eyes fixed on the polling machines in the adjacent room. It was time to start the count.<\/span><\/p>\n

The board began the Election Day meeting 15 minutes earlier, at 2:45, and was poised to print out the results from early voting. The tallies from those tapes would be combined with counts from mail-in ballots later Tuesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Voting machines from early voting shortly after they had spit out their counts. Photo by Rebecca Torrence | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fourteen voting machines lined the walls of the small white room, one for each of Durham\u2019s early voting sites. Spread out across the room, board members approached the large black boxes and pressed a button to \u201cclose\u201d the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n

The machines began spitting out tapes that unfurled slowly from the sides, listing individual vote totals for each candidate on the ballot. The machines each printed two tapes to be verified and signed by all of the board members. USB drives inserted into the machines collected results to be tabulated electronically.<\/span><\/p>\n

The process was remarkably dull. But if you feared a chaotic election, this would give you a sigh of relief. Democracy, when done right, is boring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chatter filled the room as Bowens bounced between machines to assist the board members. When someone at the back of the room raised his phone to take a picture, Bowens stopped to scold him. Taking a picture of the results tapes is illegal, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can do your reporting, but please, no pictures,\u201d he told the group, turning back to the tapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Board member Michael Gray stepped aside to chat with the public. He recalled the 2016 election, when malfunctioning computers forced the county to use paper pollbooks, prompting long lines in some precincts and a slower ballot-counting process.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, he said, Durham\u2019s election is much more organized. He gestured to Bowens, hunched over a machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll do whatever we can to hold onto Derek,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 REBECCA TORRENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

First results delayed until 8:15 p.m.<\/b><\/h2>\n

2:40 p.m. \u2014 Don\u2019t hold your breath when 7:30 p.m. rolls around.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

North Carolina\u2019s election results have been delayed until at least 8:15 p.m. after the State Board of Elections voted this afternoon to extend voting at four precincts<\/a>. This delays the release of mail-in and early voting results, as counties cannot begin any reporting until all polling locations have closed across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

The polls that received extensions include one in Guilford County, one in Cabarrus County and two in Sampson County. The extensions range from 17 minutes in Cabarrus to 45 minutes in Sampson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The state board emphasized that these extensions are not out of the ordinary and said it meets \u201croutinely\u201d to discuss them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith 2,660 polling sites, it is not unusual for minor issues to occur at polling sites that result in a brief disruption of voting,\u201d the board said in a news release. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 MAYA MILLER\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSlow as molasses\u201d — no lines at polls across Durham County<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1:00 p.m. \u2014 Durham County has 57 polling locations \u2014 and none of them had lines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 12:40 p.m, the <\/span>Durham County Board of Elections\u2019 website<\/span><\/a> showed only one precinct with a wait time: one minute at Precinct 53\u2019s polling place, located at Triangle Grace Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But outside the church 20 minutes later.,\u00a0 there wasn\u2019t a single voter in sight.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Tuesday afternoon, there was no wait to vote at Triangle Grace Church. Photo by Henry Haggart | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tami Stukey, a poll worker at Precinct 53, said there hasn\u2019t been a line to vote at any point during the day. There were five or six people waiting for the poll to open this morning, she said, but there\u2019s been no hint of a line since then. \u201cWe\u2019d love to see more,\u201d Stukey said, but the church had seen only about 150 voters total.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Triangle Grace Church wasn\u2019t an outlier in Durham County. The board\u2019s polling location map showed zero minute wait times across the county throughout the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a couple of friends working at other polls,\u201d Stukey said, \u201cand everybody has said that it\u2019s just been slow as molasses.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a similar scene at South Regional Library, Precinct 54\u2019s polling place just 10 minutes down the road from Triangle Grace Church. With no line outside, voters were able to park, cast their ballot, and drive away in a matter of minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poll workers at South Regional Library said they weren\u2019t particularly surprised at the lack of crowds, because so many people voted early. \u201cI thought it would be busier,\u201d said poll worker Robert Byars. \u201cBut I also knew, because I worked early voting, that we had tons of voters then.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the first day of early voting, the line outside the library stretched down the road to the end of the sidewalk, Byars said. It was around a three hour wait. But on Election Day, wait times hadn’t reached over 20 minutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Early voting has surged across the state, which may be resulting in a relatively low turnout on Election Day. Statewide, turnout reached 62.1% before Nov. 3. In Durham County, 67.2% of voters cast their ballot early. A total of 117,859 Durhamites voted prior to Election Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s the future of voting,\u201d Byars said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 CAROLINE PETROW-COHEN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free hot dogs and a lookout for voter suppression<\/strong><\/h2>\n

12:50 p.m. \u2014 \u201cNow you gotta buy one.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The sentence is spray-painted across the top of Robin Williamson\u2019s hot dog cart. But today, you don\u2019t have to buy one. They\u2019re free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Durham chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, an African-American labor group, hired Williamson to give hot dogs for voters outside the Southern High School precinct. The hot dog cart features blue, green and red spray-painted words of encouragement such as \u201cgreatness\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t let them tell you who to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robin Williamson prepares a hotdog lunch for a voter. Photo by Henry Haggart | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Twenty feet to the right of the steaming sausages (meat and vegan) is a long table of donuts, candy and hot coffee set up by the group\u2019s volunteers. They are here to protect the precinct from voter intimidation, said James Lawson, president of the Durham chapter of the institute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is largely an African-American area, and we want to make sure they have as much access to voting as possible,\u201d Lawson said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So far, they haven\u2019t had any problems. There\u2019s no sign of anyone trying to intimidate voters, nor soldiers from the <\/span>\u201cArmy for Trump,\u201d<\/span><\/a> the highly publicized poll-watching effort by the Trump campaign that some critics have said could be an effort to discourage Democratic voters<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 ROSE WONG<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scoot to the polls<\/strong><\/h2>\n

9:30 a.m. \u2014 Need a ride to the polls? Hop on a board with two wheels and scoot off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Spin Scooters is offering a <\/span>$10 coupon<\/span> to anyone who would like to take an Election Day ride to their precinct. The coupon expires at the end of the day, but riders would likely have enough ride credits remaining to take a trip to the grocery store, Duke University senior Rahul Ramesh said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Ramesh is sitting outside the 300 Swift apartment building, behind a row of a dozen orange scooters and a table of free merchandise: \u201cSPIN\u201d beverage sleeves, \u201cSPIN\u201d hand sanitizer bottles and t-shirts that read \u201cSpin to Vote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Volunteer Rahul Ramesh works a table offering free SPIN scooter rides and merchandise to encourage voting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His public policy professor told students that they do not have to attend class today, but should dedicate part of Election Day to some form of civic engagement. Ramesh said he looked at a list of volunteer opportunities for today and thought, \u201chey, I can man a table for a couple hours.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Durham started to thaw this morning, Ramesh looked cold. Despite his black ear muffs and thin, lime green coat, he held his arms tightly around his chest. The temperature dropped almost 20 degrees in the past week, as though even the weather was welcoming Nov. 3 with a dramatic entrance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo one has come by yet, but we\u2019re here all day,\u201d Ramesh said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Ramesh is done manning the table , other student volunteers will be offering t-shirts and scooters on Swift Ave until at least 4 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Riders can activate their free ride by downloading the Spin app and enter the promotional code \u201cspintovote.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to Duke, Spin is also working with students from Purdue University, University of Akron and Texas State University, a <\/span>blog post<\/span><\/a> from the company said<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>ROSE WONG<\/b><\/p>\n

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The first election day voters wait in the cold outside the Durham Main Library to cast their ballots before polls open. Photo by Henry Haggart | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The early birds<\/strong><\/h2>\n

6:15 a.m. \u2013 The sun was just beginning to pierce through the dark blue sky when Doris Reed and her husband, John Cash became the first in line in front of the Durham County Main Library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t discouraged by the chilly 35-degree weather.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always voted on Election Day,\u201d said Reed. \u201cIt just seems more permanent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoping to \u201cbeat the line,\u201d the two woke up at 5:30 am, skipped Reed\u2019s usual homemade breakfast and drove to the library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reed\u2019s confidence in her chosen candidate, Vice President Joseph Biden, did not waver despite the sparse line behind her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve prayed. I really think it\u2019s gonna happen. I think he\u2019s gonna win. I have no doubt.\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Voting \u2013 even with 65 names on the ballot \u2013 took only 17 minutes. Reed and Cash walked out of the same door they entered in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Doris Reed and her husband John Cash were first in line at the Durham County Main Library to vote on Election Day. Photo by Henry Haggart | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe did it!\u201d Reed said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cash said it was business as usual, but Reed felt otherwise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt a little different this time. Everything’s so different with the pandemic,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 BELLA CARACTA<\/strong><\/p>\n

In photo at top, a masked poll worker at the side of the South Durham Regional Library’s vote tabulator. Photo by Henry Haggart | The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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