In this age of Covid-19, the Board of Elections is providing a soft tipped ink pen when you sign the electronic tablet at your polling location.
I don't know exactly how, when or wherefrom I got the pen to fill out the ballot but I wasn't the first, or last to use it.
Before that pen though they gave me a short cardboard tube with a rubber tip to sign in on their touch screen. They told me to keep it if I wanted so I stuck it in my pocket while wondering if I did leave it, would it be immediately thrown away. Later after pulling the little cardboard tube out of my pocket and seeing that the rubber tip was missing I started wondering how many cocaine addicts would be using these as straws a little later that night.