Finding out where to Vote seems small in compared to figuring out where you're going to sleep the next night, but that's what a lot of East Coast residents are faced with this voting season.
Hurricane Sandy displaced many from their homes, be it destruction or just evacuation, and now it's a struggle to figure out where to vote in this Presidential election.
These days we need electricity to aide in the voting process, and officials are confident that it wont be an issue come voting time except for in the most severely hit areas. At this point residents were lined up in polling stations that were not their own. 'Refugee' voters were able to vote in different areas if their hometowns were inaccessible on Tuesday. In some neighborhoods temporary polling places were set up to best serve their residents, and lines of people were in front of these temporary tents and structures. Buses even provided free bus services for citizens to get to these polling places.
It's nice to see the priority given, within reason, to voting in the election. Something as important as the presidential election is clearly treated with high importance, and people's reaction to the adversity is promising.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57545592/sandy-victims-concerns-voting-housing-power/?pageNum=2
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