Voters cast ballots in booths spread six feet apart at the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center for the delayed primary runoff election in Houston.
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Like everything else in 2020, the primary run off election is different, altered by COVID-19. Because of the pandemic, the runoff election date was pushed back seven weeks, from May 26 to July 14. Because of health concerns, counties have devised new protocols to try and ensure the safety of voters and poll workers alike. They are enforcing social distance in lines and between voting machines — and providing protective shields and finger cots.
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The lessons learned today will serve as a dress rehearsal for a high-stakes Election Day in November. To get a feeling for that, and for how things went in this unusual runoff, we sent photographers out to various polling locations around the state. Here’s some of what they saw.
Frannie Griffin submits her ballot at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas for the state’s runoff elections on Tuesday.
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First: A sanitation station at the entrance of a polling site at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas. Last: A polling site at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas.
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First: Voters check in with poll workers behind barriers at the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center in Houston for the delayed primary runoff election. Last: Voters, wearing masks and spread six feet apart, line up outside the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center in Houston to vote on Tuesday.
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Voters check in with poll workers behind barriers at the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center in Houston for the delayed primary runoff election.
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First: People waited in 100-degree weather to vote at the Pflugerville ISD Rock Gym. Last: Voters enter a polling site in Austin.
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A voter uses an umbrella for protection from the sun. Voters waited in 100-degree temperatures outside the Pflugerville ISD Rock Gym on Tuesday.
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Austinites casted their votes in the states' runoff election on Tuesday.
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Curbside voting Signs with buzzers outside the Metropolitan Multi-Services Center in Houston.
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