IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHY.
>> IN LONDONDERRY BEFORE THE POLLS OPENED, A WORKER WAS BRINGING SANITIZER, PART OF THE EFFORT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SAFE AS THEY HEAD TO THE POLLS.
INSIDE, SOME OF THE WORKERS ARE WEARING GLOVES.
JUST PART OF THE STEPS TOWN OFFICIALS ARE TAKING OUT OF CONCERNS OVER THE CORONAVIRUS.
>> WE’VE GOT HAND SANITIZERS, GLOVES.
WE SENT OUT A NOTICE PEOPLE CAN WEAR GLOVES AND BRING THEIR OWN PENS.
REPORTER: MOST VOTERS DIDN’T SEEM TO BE WORRIED.
>> RIGHT NOW I’M NOT OVERLY CONCERNED.
I THINK IT’S OUR DUTY TO DO OUR PART IN VOTE, SO I’M HAPPY TO DO IT.
>> IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS THE COMMON COLD, BUT WE CAN’T PANIC ABOUT THINGS.
>> IT’S JUST ALL COMMON SENSE STUFF.
WE DO THAT WITH THE FLU EVERY YEAR, SO WHICH A BE NO DIFFERENT.
RAY: IN LONDONDERRY, HAND SANITIZER IS AVAILABLE.
>> I USED IT BECAUSE YOU JUST NEVER KNOW.
THERE WAS A MAN SNEEZING A COUPLE BOOTHS DOWN FROM ME, I THOUGHT I DON’T WANT TO TAKE THE RISK.
RAY: TURNOUT WAS ALSO LIGHT IN SALEM DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE MODERATOR THOUGHT A COUPLE OF BOND ISSUES WOULD BRING PEOPLE OUT TO VOTE.
ON THE CHECK-IN TABLES, HAND SANITIZER AND SANITIZING WIPES AVAILABLE, AND OCCASIONALLY SOME OF THE WORKERS WERE USING THEM.
GLOVES WERE ALSO AVAILABLE IN SALEM, UNLIKE IN LONDONDERRY.
WHILE MOST OF THE POLL WORKERS AND VOTERS WE TALKED TO DID NOT SEEM OVERLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS, IN SALEM, WORKERS ARE NOW WEARING THOSE GLOVES.
WE DID HAVE ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTER COME BY AND GIVE US THIS HAND SANITIZER.
SHE WORKS FOR A CLEANING COMPANY, SHE SAID IT WAS JUST IN CA