Iris Broyde, Guilderland

Sherry Haluska, Guilderland

Doug Smith, Guilderland

Ed Biittig Sr.​, Duanesburg

Ed Cowley, Altamont

Shirley Unser, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary

John Rowen, Guilderland

Typically, in Albany County, about 140,000 to 144,000 residents vote in a presidential election. Matthew Clyne, the county’s Democratic election commissioner, estimated that — combining the early voters with the mail-in voters — about half that number had already cast their ballots before Election Day.

After a rent increase following the COVID shutdown, photographer Chelsea Sylvester was forced to relocate her studio from Colonie to Altamont’s Maple Avenue, a stressful last-minute change that Sylvester nevertheless describes as a “dream come true.”