My observation took place in line, waiting to vote at the Ebenezer Baptist Church from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm. There was a diversity of people in the line of all ages (toddlers to elderly), races, genders, religious backgrounds and political preferences. The line moved fairly quickly I observed volunteers handing out political flyers, and those in line reading the posters of the rules and regulations at the voting center. Which included cellphones be turned off and no political representation of any kind on clothing and accessories, ID and registration card must be present before entering the voting area. People immediately started turning off phones, taking political gear back to their cars and started searching in their wallets for their IDs. At about 2:46 a women in line wearing all blue (which I thought …show more content…
The women sat down in the middle of the floor while in line with everyone staring at her. She refused medical attention and mad a joke about how nothing was going to stop her from voting in this election not even if she can’t barely breathe. Volunteers started to confront her and handed her some water. As time went by she got up off the floor and was okay to continue moving with the line. By 2:50 myself and everyone in front of me hand made it to the testing area where every picked to fill out the ballot by paper or electronically. The room was silent with these barriers separating each seat, when finished people got up turned it in to the slider machine for the lady to give you an “I Voted Today Sticker”. When I went to turn my in there was a lady in front of me whose form wouldn’t go into the machine it just kept displaying the word “deny”. The volunteers explained to be that her ballot wouldn’t go through because she picked two answers for one