No matter how ballots were cast — in-person, by mail, drop boxes — process could be model for future elections

Election judge Patty Broers said poll workers at Cotton Hill Precinct 1 just south of Rochester were greeted by a long line of voters as doors opened Tuesday morning.About 80 people voted in the first hour the poll was open, Broers noted.”You wouldn’t have seen those lines in 2012 or 2016 (elections),” Broers said. “We were very busy.”I think that people were really ginned up to vote. They’re exercising their civic duty, which is what you want […]