Early voting is open. Here’s who got to the polls first.

Voting is a solitary activity, but on the first day of early voting in Montgomery County, some voters made the trek to the polls together in a mobile rally to boost turnout.

“I wanted to make sure that my vote counts,” said John Miles, 81, of Rockville. ”Voting early was just a good way to do it.”

He and his wife, Thea, 84, were among a group of about 30 people who made the less than a half-mile trek from Christ Episcopal Church to the polling site in the Isiah “Ike” Leggett Executive Office Building in downtown Rockville.

Their “March to the Montgomery County Early Voting Polls” was organized by the nonprofits Maryland Poor People’s Campaign and the Repairers of the Breach, whose national director is leading civil rights figure Bishop William Barber II.

Barber is expected to preach at the 10:30 a.m. worship service at Bethesda’s Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Sunday, a representative for him said.

The Rev. Betty Landis of Saint Stephen Lutheran Church in Silver Spring said the organizations aim to launch 1,000 nonpartisan marches to early voting sites and polls by Election Day. So far, about 700 have been planned, she said.

The groups chose Montgomery County for a march, she said, because it has many early voting centers. According to the Board of Elections, there are 14 early voting sites in the county.

“Every vote absolutely matters,” Landis said.

Thursday morning’s marchers held signs: “Make a plan to vote” and “Voting rights for all” and chanted, “This is what democracy looks like,” and ”Whose vote? Our vote.”

Rabbi David Shneyer of the Am Kolel Jewish community in Rockville strummed a 12-string acoustic guitar during the short stroll. He said he was voting for his children and grandchildren because he wants to see a country where justice and the rule of law are respected.

He also said it was important that the group of early voters was religiously diverse because “we’re all God’s children.”

Susan Friend, 73, of Rockville, said she wanted to join the march because she is scared of the direction of the government and big business under President Donald Trump.

“We need all citizens who care about democracy to rise up and make their voices heard through their votes,” she said.