There’s been a lot of talk about voting on this blog, but the Unpaid Intern took it upon himself to visit the front lines of the voting world to see what it’s really like out there.

Spending an hour outside of the Elections Building—located on 1040 SE Morrison just in case you don’t know where it is, which seems to be the case with only 12 percent of people casting their votes so far—it not as bad as it sounds. It’s actually quite quiet, besides the cars and buses flying by, since there was no one to talk to.

In over an hour I talked to two people dropping off their ballots. I asked the first man if he was voting, to which he responded “yes.” But when I identified myself as someone from the Mercury and asked if he cared to talk about how he chose to vote, he simply responded, “no,” and kept walking.

The second man, Scott Hoelscher, took time to chat about the issues he saw as the most important, mainly the strong mayor initiative.
“I can see compelling arguments on both sides,” said Hoelscher. “But I just wasn’t comfortable with putting more power in the hands of the mayor.”