Voting throughout the years: These photos will make you realize how much has changed

It’s Election Day, and we hope you made your way to the polls to cast a ballot.

There were more options than usual this year: An increased number of early-voting locations were made available, and some states expanded absentee voting due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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No matter how you voted, or who and what you voted for, technology is certainly on our side these days. But it wasn’t always this way.

Check out some of these photos, below, from Getty Images, for a peek into what things looked like in years past.

Standing at voting stalls in a fire station, Chicagoans punch their ballots to elect a governor and a host of other state and local officials. Voter turnout throughout the state was heavier than expected. (Getty Imags)

Not exactly the same scene as zipping your ballot into an optical scanning system, is it?

And now, we await the results.