On the last day of early voting, Newport News Mayor Phil Jones posted outside of Denbigh Community Center with his family to greet voters.
He said hello to almost every passerby, or thanked them for voting. For the ones wearing a sports team jersey, he made sure to ask how their team would do. For those who wanted it, he jumped in on selfies.
“You’re doing a great job,” one woman told Jones. “I can’t go in here and vote enough. I can’t press my pencil hard enough. I can’t circle it hard enough … We talk about it all the time, we say, ‘That young man is really doing a great job.’”…