SCRANTON, Pa. — Thousands of people in Scranton had to head in a different direction if they wanted to vote Tuesday morning.
On tables inside Scranton High School, in addition to the ward and precinct numbers, there is something else in big letters—the place where people used to vote.
The county moved several polling places because of handicap-accessibility issues. Many found a new home at Scranton High School.
This was Jean Cabrera's first time voting there.
"It's nice and easy. Just go in, tell them your name, and they give you a paper, and you go home. Fill it in and go home. Put it in the machine. Go home," Cabrera said.
Alex Placke is another Scranton High first-time voter.
"It was easy because there is lots of parking, and that made it, yeah, easy."
But it is that parking could be an issue for some people. Tony Galenas, age 82, noted the distance between the parking lot and the building and it's uphill.
"Some people aren't going to be able to walk up here. It's a quarter of a mile down here," Galenas said. "I do a lot of walking, but some people, I imagine they can't."
Galenas said his old polling place, Weston Field, was much more convenient.
At Scranton High School, they're voting. At the Lackawanna County Government Center on Wyoming Avenue in downtown Scranton, they're counting.
This is where the tally of all those mail-in ballots takes place. At 7 a.m., there were more than 14,000 ballots to count, and the county expects plenty more to arrive in the mail and the drop box in the lobby by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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