As record numbers of voters turn out to cast their ballots, many are facing long lines and taking hours to get through. In some parts of the country, those lines have taken ten hours to move through, leaving voters hungry.
A non-profit is partnering with local restaurants to keep Baltimore voters comfortable while they wait in line.
Despite the rain Thursday, voters lined up at Edmonson Westside High School to cast their ballots, and World Central Kitchen was there to keep them fed.
Voter Angela Lee was offered some chili. It was the only thing she had eaten all day.
“I’m going to go eat it in the car,” she said. “I haven’t had lunch yet.”
Lee raced to the polling station inside Baltimore’s City Community College during her lunch break and didn’t have time to figure out where she would find food.
The meal she got was free thanks to World Central Kitchen.
“I think it’s really thoughtful,” she said.
Voters were “genuinely surprised” by the offering, Kwame Rose with the nonprofit said.