FACES OF DEMOCRACY: Wildhorse

By Riley Donahue,

HUB Correspondent—

The room is dimly lit, in the back of the Wildhorse Golf Course Clubhouse, behind the Pro Shop, and the Bar and Grill. Wildhorse residents line up at the second of two tables, and people living outside of Wildhorse make a line at the first table. Each table has about four poll workers, all of them elderly, and despite having to be there all day, they seem very kind and helpful. After receiving their ballots from the neat piles of papers in front of the poll workers, the voters chose one of the grey voting booths, and go mark their choices.

Two parents walk in with their little boy and girl, probably around the ages six and three. The boy is wearing a blue bike helmet over his curly blonde hair, and the girl a pink helmet upon her straight blonde hair. They both walk over to the second table to get cookies from one of the poll workers as their parents fill out their ballot.

All of these voters have come to the Wildhorse Golf Course to vote. Many other residents and public offices in Davis, and all over the country, have opened up their doors to host voting, but not many businesses rent out their space for voting.

“It’s all well and good,” Joe Moulton, Head Golf Professional at Wildhorse golf Course, said. “It’s a bit of an inconvenience for the golfers to have to walk around all the voters, and for them to get to the bathroom, because the usual door is closed off. But a positive effect it has, is that some people didn’t even know we were here.”

“We’ve probably tripled our usual lunch and drink sales, and doubled our breakfast sales,” said Tim Richards, employee at the Wildhorse Bar and Grill. “But then again, I haven’t been here all day, so it could be more.”