Before heading to Noble Art this morning, Troy and his sister Nicki made an important stop. They went to the Speedway Town Hall, where his polling place is located. After performing his civic duty, he took the “I voted” sticker from the volunteer poll workers and put it on his shirt to remind others to do the same.
For years, Troy has voted in both the primaries and the general elections. To prepare, he spent last evening looking up information on the candidates so he knew which ones shared his beliefs.
Once he arrived at the Town Hall, Nicki signed a form that gave her permission to assist him with the logistics, but the process is pretty straightforward: Troy fed the ballot into the machine, cast his votes, took the completed ballot out of the machine and handed it to the poll worker. Nicki did the same at her voting machine next to him.
They weren’t too surprised at the sparse crowd and there was no need to wait in line. What did surprise them was that for many of the offices, there was either no candidate listed or only one running. Regardless, he will be back in November to vote on whoever made it through the primaries.
His advice to others? “They probably should exercise their civic duty to vote, but it’s really up to them,” says Troy.
