Despite the popularity of mail-in voting, thousands of Vermonters are heading to polling places that have been modified to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
In-person voters head to pandemic-tweaked polls
Author: Mike Dougherty
Mike Dougherty is VTDigger’s digital editor. He is a DC-area native and studied journalism and music at New York University. Prior to joining VTDigger, Mike spent two years as a program coordinator for the Vermont Humanities Council. Before moving to Vermont in 2015, he spent seven years managing recording operations for the oral history nonprofit StoryCorps, assisted Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, and contributed to the Brooklyn-based alt-weekly L Magazine.
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