It's called the Big Pickup.

Once a year, every Fresnan -- or Fresnian as the state lottery folks like to say -- gets to pile discards in front of the house. Then city sanitation crews come around and haul away whatever the scavengers haven't piled into their vans and pickups.

Right now, the Big Pickup is happening on Barton Avenue between Gettysburg and Shaw in northeast Fresno. And so is the today's election.

You can guess what's coming.

The "Polling Place" sign for the Barton neighborhood precinct is affixed to an old wooden dresser standing in front of the home where voting is going on.

Call it a sign of the times.

Or a comment on Fresno politics.