If Election Day couldn’t be complicated enough someone has decided that it would be a hilarious idea to play a practical joke on those people looking to vote in the Student Union. Someone had the frankly brilliant idea of posting a sign telling voters that the voting would be taking placing on the first floor of the SUB. So of course many students saw the sign and walked down the stairs only to have to make a U-turn in complete frustration after learning that the line was forming outside.

In a period of an hour, more than three dozen eager voters with ID cards in hand walked to the SUB Down Under where they saw the voting booths, but sadly were also presented with a dry-erase board telling them “to vote enter down under from the outside door only.”

I’m sorry but having people wait outside in November in Kirksville is not the best decision. Yeah, the weather has worked out thus far, but on any other fall day cold temperatures would have kept student from the polls after seeing such a long line. And it is a long line, it’s 11 a.m. and 450 student voters have already placed their votes for the next president of the United States while 30 more wait in line.

Election officials say they expect a good turnout at the Student Union as the day wears on and are asking voters to be patient and brace for possible delays. So my best advice to save you a bit of time, frustration and the possibility of assaulting someone in a moment of rage is to not even go in the SUB. Instead walk down Franklin Street toward the Student Union and when you see a line, jump in and you’ll be all right.

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