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Climate change is causing peak foliage to arrive more than a week later than it did in the 1950s, but other factors that shape the timing and brilliance of the change of colors have also increased seasonal unpredictability.
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Climate change is causing peak foliage to arrive more than a week later than it did in the 1950s, but other factors that shape the timing and brilliance of the change of colors have also increased seasonal unpredictability.
Voters are socially distant as they cast their votes at Scarborough High School on Tuesday, Election Day.
Bob Cronin walks past voting booths with disinfectant and a rag as a voter casts his ballot at Kennebunk Town Hall on Tuesday. Cronin was disinfecting the shelves of voting booths after voters filled in the ballots.
Whitney Smith fills out her ballots at the Portland Exposition Building on Tuesday.
Alan Nelson inserts his ballot into a scanner while voting at Kennebunk Town Hall on Tuesday.
A line of voters awaits entry into Merrill Auditorium in Portland on Tuesday morning.
Poll worker Ralph Masciovecchio directs voters to voting machines at Scarborough High School on Tuesday, Election Day.
A voter kneels to complete her ballot at Howard C. Reiche Community School in Portland on Tuesday.
A line exceeds the width of Howard C. Reiche Community School in Portland on Tuesday.
Chris Horne, a staffer with the Portland City Clerk's Office, unloads absentee ballots from a drop box at City Hall on Tuesday morning. Horne said she had unloaded the box three times by 10:30 a.m. and usage has been heavy, particularly overnight.
A line winds around a corner onto Brackett Street at Howard C. Reiche Community School in Portland on Tuesday.
People enter their ballots in voting machines at Biddeford High School on Election Day Tuesday.
Secretary of State Matt Dunlap talks to reporters outside a polling location at Merrill Auditorium in Portland on Tuesday.
Jade Thibodeau waits to vote in South Portland's Boys & Girls Club gym on Tuesday morning. With more space needed between voting stations because of the pandemic, there were fewer voting stations set up for the 2020 election. The line in the morning extended into the parking lot.
A sign outside Biddeford High School reminds people to vote and to wear a mask on Election Day Tuesday.
Voters wait in line around 7:50 a.m. Tuesday for the polls to open at 8 a.m. at Gardiner Area High School in Gardiner. The line was over 100 people long and wrapped around the science wing on back of the building.
A long line forms outside Thornton Academy in Saco prior to the polls opening on Election Day Tuesday.
Phil Lord of Saco wears a mask with a flag design as he waits in line to vote in Saco on Election Day Tuesday.
A long line of people waits to vote at Biddeford High School on Election Day Tuesday.
Sam Monahan registers at South Portland's Boys & Girls Club Tuesday morning, while voter deputy Ollie LaChapelle sanitizes her hands. LaChapelle has worked on Election Day for more than 25 years and said she loves registering people to vote.
Voting takes place inside the gym at Thornton Academy in Saco on Election Day Tuesday.
People wait to put their ballots in a voting machine at Biddeford High School on Election Day Tuesday.
Every other voting booth at Howard C. Reiche Community School in Portland has been cordoned off to maintain social distancing and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Voters are directed as they arrive to vote at Waterville Junior High School in Waterville on Tuesday.
John Pattavina fills out a ballot next to his 5-year-old granddaughter Ellie Feldman during a lull in voting at Falmouth High School on Tuesday.
A voter arrives at the polls at Waterville Junior High School in Waterville on Tuesday.
Voters wait their turn to vote at Waterville Junior High School in Waterville on Tuesday.
Voters line the driveway as they are directed to parking before voting at Waterville Junior High School in Waterville on Tuesday.
Dale Crafts receives his ballots from an election official at Lisbon High School on Tuesday afternoon. Crafts is seeking to unseat 2nd Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden.
A voter fills out a ballot on Tuesday at Falmouth High School, where every other polling booth was closed to maintain social distancing. Voting was light at 1 p.m.
A voter prepares to return his ballots at Windham High School on Tuesday, when voting was light at midday.
Poll worker Dana Smith signals another poll worker to wait before letting in more voters in the Westbrook Community Center Gym on Tuesday. Smith was counting to make sure there were less than 50 people in the gym at any one time.
Voting takes place in the Westbrook Community Center on Election Day Tuesday.
A voter walks their ballot over to the machines at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Tuesday.
Ed Taylor of Westbrook Fire/Police directs traffic in the parking lot of the Westbrook Community Center on Election Day Tuesday.