Election Day in Baltimore still felt a bit like a celebration of civic duty, and Baltimoreans said they felt good about exercising their right to vote.

“Liberating … to feel part of something bigger than yourself,” said Archie Jones, who works for the city Board of Elections and was running supplies to voting centers.

Across the city, people came out to elect a president and a mayor as well as a City Council and a congressperson in the middle of a pandemic. Because of the coronavirus, the city couldn’t staff the more than 300 polling places it did in 2016. Just 24 centers were open.

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