Life on the line: Early voters wait 'as long as it takes'

Americans are accustomed to standing in line. It was a living chain of hundreds of people who stepped into place — around the building, down some stairs and past a fleet of idled yellow school buses — determined to be counted in the elemental civic ritual of voting, which seems even more consequential in the bitterly fought 2020 presidential election. “If you want the United States to remain united, you need to vote,” said Monique Sutton, 52 and a nurse practitioner.