Primaries are SLOW. It’s great practice for the November general election. Inexperienced officers can take their time and ask all the questions.
But all work and no play makes for a boring election day. We are stationed in a high school gymnasium. A very common polling setup. Lots of balls are wedged into funny places. See photos.
There’s a ledge behind the basketball hoops. Balls have gotten trapped up there (see the photo). We made a rube Goldberg contraption out of some of our supplies and managed to pull a couple balls down. Now we can shoot a few hoops on the back half when there are no #voters. I wanted to get photos of how we got them down, but I also didn’t want photographic evidence of how we got them down. So I’ll just leave it to your imagination. We probably spent 45 minutes improvising mechanisms. It involved broom handles, rope, rolls of tape, chairs, etc. Not one voter interrupted our work. 
I’m trying to find the reference to it in the Code of Virginia, but I’m pretty sure if a voter makes a shot from the 3-point line, they get a bonus ballot.
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