Mfume delivered his victory speech via Facebook Live from a podium in a darkened and echoey campaign office before a limited number of reporters who agreed to wear face masks and observe social distancing. His wife and son stood behind him, but he noted that members of his campaign staff had stayed home.
“What ordinarily would have been a great, and I’d like to think, grand celebration this evening is tempered, properly so, by the fact that many of our citizens at this hour are struggling to fight off the terrible disease of the coronavirus,” he said.
Baltimore County Board of Elections President Bruce Robinson said in-person activity at the polls Tuesday was “minimal, maybe less.” By 5 p.m., 10 hours after polls opened, just 242 people had voted in person in Baltimore County, 312 in Baltimore City and 156 in Howard County.
Mfume told CQ Roll Call that he mailed in his ballot two weeks ago. Instead of going to vote in person with his wife first thing in the morning as he would on a typical Election Day, he spent much of Tuesday at home, staying in contact with volunteers at each of the three open polling places in the district.
“The hardest part has been the fact that for the last 45 days, we have not been able to have physical contact with voters,” Mfume said. He added that the biggest issue for him was finding a way to respond to the people affected by the virus or the economic collapse that has accompanied the shutdown.
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