//Election cake — a centuries-old tradition — makes going to the polls tastier

Election cake — a centuries-old tradition — makes going to the polls tastier

When Sarah Diamond was a child, she often accompanied her grandmother and mother to their Rensselaer County polling location for their shifts as poll workers.Besides being able to see friends and neighbors as they gathered to exercise their civic duty, the promise of a slice of “election cake” kept the fidgety proclivities of childhood at bay.“My grandmother used to make election cakes for her polling