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Thursday, June 11, 2020

INDEX

Vol. CXXIX, No. 125
© 2020 The Michigan Daily
NEWS ....................................
OPINION ...............................
ARTS/NEWS..........................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................

MICHIGAN IN COLOR

Lebanon: where
suffering meets
resilience
Lebanon has another
crisis and, like before, we
have abandoned them.

>> SEE PAGE 9

NEWS
Philbert report

Students respond to the

WilmerHale report detail-

ing 20 years of sexual

miscondut. >> SEE PAGE 2

OPINION
A reflection on the
WilmerHale report

The University’s lack of

action preserves a culture

of abuse. >> SEE PAGE 5

ARTS
Hozier reads
poetry to you
on Instagram
The singer-songwriter’s
‘Poetry Fridays’ are
surreal. >> SEE PAGE 7

SPORTS
New schedule
The Big Ten’s release
of the football schedule
gets broken down for the
Wolverines.

>> SEE PAGE 10

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As Ann Arbor received a
rcord number of absentee ballot
requests ahead of Tuesday’s
primary
elections,
in-person
voting dwindled. Throughout the
day, The Daily visited multiple
precincts and found few voters
at many locations. Ann Arbor’s
online Election Day line tracker
reported little to no wait times.
University of Michigan Law
student Sam Rubinstein has been
working the polls on election
days since he moved to Ann
Arbor in 2018. Administering an
election for the second time as
precinct chairperson Tuesday, he
wanted to make sure the second
precinct in Ward 3 ran smoothly
and safely.
The city of Ann Arbor worked
with the University to use a
bigger space for the polls in
the Michigan League, which is
otherwise closed. Rubenstein
noted
the
city
implemented
protective
measures
like
plexiglass between workers and
voters; N-95 face masks and
gloves for workers; and sanitizing
voting booths after each use.
“But obviously the biggest

difference is that there’s very few
people here, because people have
been encouraged to vote by mail,
and it’s good to see people taking
advantage of that even if it’s a bit
quiet here,” Rubinstein said.
Rubinstein said he doesn’t
know
whether
the
safety
measures in place today will
be sustainable in the general
election
when
students
are
presumably back on campus and
turnout is much higher.
“It’ll be harder to sustain,”
Rubinstein said. “I’m confident
that we’re practicing good social
distancing today, but it’s easy
when you have such a small
number of people.”
Election
workers
outnumbered voters throughout
the day at the League. By 11
a.m., four hours after polls
opened, election worker Joan
Lowenstein had only seen one
voter, a Daily reporter who was
at their 3rd Ward 1st Precinct
station. Lowenstein said about 20
absentee ballots were sent out to
the precinct, which is nearly all
students.
“We expected it to be pretty
slow because of the big push
for absentee ballots this year,”
Lowenstein said. “... I know that
each ward in Ann Arbor had
more absentee ballots requested
than total voters in 2018.”

Edward
Golembiewski,
Washtenaw County Director of
Election, confirmed this rise in
an email to The Daily, stating
101,807 absentee ballots were
sent across the county and 34,519
have been issued for the city of
Ann Arbor.
Even
though
Ann
Arbor
resident Chris Vessels received
an absentee ballot, he voted
in-person because he was driving
by the League. Vessels said he
is also worried about bigger
elections, but said the socially-
distanced voting didn’t affect his
experience much Tuesday.
“This would be a nightmare
if there were a big line out the
door, and I’m sure for the general
election it’s gonna be kind of
tough, but for something where
you’re the only person in here
it’s really not such a big deal,”
Vessels said.
Vessels said he voted for
candidates who he feels will
encourage
more
housing
development in Ann Arbor.
LSA junior Rima Rahman has
volunteered in every election
since the 2016 general election,
starting as a high school student
in Detroit. She was worried about
safety when she first signed up

City Council
challengers
take primary

Incumbents are ousted by
candidates sponsored by
mayor Chris Taylor, giving
him a majority

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JULIA RUBIN
Summer News Editor

CALDER LEWIS &
SARAH PAYNE
Summer News Editors

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A pandemic primary: How voters
and poll workers experienced elections

Dominick Sokotoff/Daily

Democrats Lisa Disch, Linh Song,
Travis Radina, Jen Eyer and Erica
Briggs won Ann Arbor City Council
seats in the 1st through 5th Wards,
respectively,
beating
incumbents.
All City Council seats will be held by
Democrats. All five challengers were
endorsed by Mayor Christopher Taylor,
and these results will give him a council
majority.
Ward 1 - Lisa Disch
Disch won Ward 1’s seat with
approximately 68 percent of the vote
against incumbent Anne Bannister.
She has lived in Ward 1 since 2008 and
is a professor in the Political Science
and Women’s Studies Departments at
the University of Michigan. According
to her website, she is a “life-long
Democrat.”
Her goals for the future include
making sure Ann Arbor has affordable
housing options, restarting Ann Arbor’s
commitment to recycling, pursuing
renewable energy solutions, increasing
pedestrian safety and strengthening
relationships between citizens and the
police.
In a statement on Facebook, Disch
noted how grateful she is for the
opportunity to serve on Ann Arbor City
Council and gave her thanks to the Ann
Arbor community for supporting her.
“Now the work begins,” Disch wrote.
“But that does not mean that I disappear
from the neighborhoods. As I said in my
newsletter last week, you all will find
me knocking on your doors again come
Fall in support of the affordable housing
millage--and I hope that anyone who
has supported this campaign will join

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