This post is pictures of people voting in The Rockaways, under dramatic conditions. Ignore the partisan name of the sourceblog - this is about democracy working under duress, in the city that I no longer live in but still call home.

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Faces of the Voted: The Rockaways, Queens

“People are voting in the dark. There are no lights, there is no heat.”

It was how NPR’s Robert Smith described the situation at the polls early this morning, in the Rockaways, Queens, which is in one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. Of the 38 polling stations that had to be relocated in the borough, 23 are here — in tents, outdoors, running on generators, and some without heat at all.

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