Election Day is waning, and I am spending it as I always do, as a volunteer with the Committee of Seventy, the century old political oversight group in Philadelphia.

For more than one hundred years, Seventy has sent nonpartisan volunteers around to city polling places to stop electioneering, intimidation and disenfranchisement. I’ve risen to the rank of team leader, which means I sit in a Center City law firm answering calls, directing volunteers and eating catered sandwiches and cookies.

So, let me be the authority to tell you the obvious. Turnout is low (bad weather and boring election), but there are always a few great stories.

Around 10:30am, we got a complaint that an election judge was telling voters to “not worry about the retention votes,” which were set to keep on municipal judge-ships. Not sexy enough for you?

An hour later, a committeeman in North Philadelphia was accused of selling alcohol to voters out of his van, intimidating senior citizen voters, and possessing a gun. 

This in a election that might not get more than 30 percent voter turnout. Absolutely unbelievable. 

God bless America.