I went to vote at the registrars office and it was packed. I had tried to go and early vote at the mall with a group from Blindness Support Services, but the group voting never materialized. I will be on that organizing next time to make sure that it goes off without a hitch.

I had to vote early at the main office, because the local precinct is not available by public transport and it an hour and 15 minute walk each way in areas with no sidewalks. This is something that I complained about vociferously since before the primary to the registrar's office. To my state representatives, my county supervisors and my congressman and my senator. To no avail.

The location had really bothered me when I had gone before, because there are a lot of disabled people riding the busses from the downtown terminal here. This location makes it difficult for everyone in a rather large downtown area to vote on election day.

The registrar's office, they finally added a bus stop reasonably close to it after my literally months of bitching. I only had to walk 1/4 mile each way from the stop to the office. Not ideal, but manageable. The bus ride was about an hour and 15 minutes each way but the bus drivers here are sort of awesome and the driver pointed me in the right direction. Nice, nice drivers here... most of them.

The security force in the parking area was great and led me politely to the line. There were a lot of workers around to help direct me places and the people in line are always helpful.

However, the sorting rubric inside was not particularly fabulous. I had to check in at a series of windows that were hard to hear through. They gave me a queue number that they didn't bother to tell me what it actually was, and a slip of paper to fill out that I couldn't see to fill out. No large print options or anyone to help me fill it out. I had to drag out my Smartlux magnifier to do it.

Luckily for me, I get handicapped access for the speaking machines to vote so I didn't have to wait all that long. The people working the machines were super helpful about directing me in and out of the area. They were happy to hook up my earphones for the audible and explain how they worked.

My bigger problem was in actually getting to the precinct from the bus.

As I was walking towards the precinct with my *white cane,* some strange man grabs me by the sweater and starts yelling at me to take a flyer from him. I repeat... **I am walking with a white cane.** When I begin to consider whacking him with the cane, because frankly I was freaked out, I pointed out that the flyers would need to be in braille.

He would not let go of me. He was trying to put a flyer into my sweater pockets, shove it into my purse, and actually yelling at me.

He actually frightened the nice Hispanic man that was walking with me while chatting with me and patiently tolerating my abominable, broken Spanish and making sure that I got to the actual office.

He was trying to get the man to let go of me and was polite to a fault. He ran and got two of the parking security people. It took 2 security workers to get him to leave me alone, who called the sheriff and the cops hauled him away shortly thereafter, while I was waiting in line outside the building to the cheering joy of others in line that had witnessed it.

He was yelling "Vote for Trump."

Apparently, that was their "poll watcher." So. One down.