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Here's What It Looks Like Across the U.S. to Vote During a Pandemic

How voters are staying safe — and ensuring their voices are heard — during a global pandemic that has already killed more than 230,000 Americans

By Diane J. Cho
November 03, 2020 07:24 PM
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An "I Voted" sticker is placed on a big jug of hand sanitizer for voters to use at the Los Angeles County Registrar in Norwalk, California.

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Poll worker Dina Grinstead wears a protective gown, a mask and a face shield while assisting voters at the Graham Civic Center polling location in Graham, North Carolina.

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Voter Tom Held, 57, gets his temperature checked by Tabatha Watley, 54, as he enters his polling place at the Diann Banks-Williamson Education Center in Detroit, Michigan.

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Election inspector David Hopkinson surveys his polling station at the Emanuel First Lutheran School in Lansing, Michigan.

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Trump supporter Matthew Woods leads a Trump Train Rally through the parking lot of a polling precinct in Warren, Michigan, dressed as a Continental Army soldier.

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A jogger dressed as Superman carries a "Vote!" flag as he passes a polling station in San Antonio, Texas.

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Dyana Elam (center), with her children Jackson Love, 11, (left) and Jordan Love, 11, (right), votes at Union Station in L.A.

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Katherine Gross wears a banana costume to try to get people to the polls near the Flawn Academy Center at the University of Texas.

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Metropolitan Opera orchestra musicians perform for voters (through their face masks!) outside a polling site located in N.Y.C.'s Upper West Side neighborhood.

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Auggie Mejia carries his dog Baby as he casts his ballot at the Legion Park polling place in Miami, Florida.

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