Working an election

What I learned working the polls on election day:

-The warden for my precinct is really good at her job and was counting early votes as soon as she could.
-Voting for the first time either as a teen or a citizen still matters.
-My neighborhood is wonderfully diverse and everyone stopped by to vote with children and dogs.
-Kids love stickers, knew that already but a happy thing.
-Once a ballot is out of its early or mail in packet, its just a ballot.
-In the end, they're all just ballots and at least in my state, its hard to go, don't count those.
-There are some wonderful masks out there and all but two people I saw wore them and those two had masks but were happy for new ones.
-I really missed helping people and meeting people.
-My arm hurts from directing people to their precincts but I needed that boost of helping.
-Being exhausted meant that I don't have the same energy to be anxious.
-I feel like we're going to get to someplace better, still going to be a fight but we'll get there.