My 4 no-mask people at the polls yesterday.

I was manning a desk at the entrance to the polls yesterday to make sure that people coming in to vote were wearing masks. We had all of 4 people who refused to wear a mask. One elderly lady said that she couldn't wear one so we took care of her outside with an absentee ballot. One older gentleman who protested and got very crusty but finally agreed to wear one just to vote. The 3rd guy refused the mask we offered him and asked if he could go back to his car to get his own. "Of course you can", we said. He came back in wearing a big black respirator that looked like something out of a third rate sci-fi film. There was dead silence when he walked into the voting area and then a bunch of muted giggles.

The fourth guy refused to wear a mask and told me that a mask did nothing and anyway, Covid-19 was a hoax. He refused the absentee ballot. He pointed to the polling area and growled "I have a constitutional right to go in there". I said (politely) "You have a constitutional right to vote but you do not have a constitutional right to make people sick. Here is your ballot, go outside and fill it out and bring it back to me." After all his huffing and puffing and growling, he did what he was told.