Kellie went out first thing this morning, getting in line at 5:30am. She was home just after 6:30am. I’m sure she doesn’t completely feel this way, but that probably wasn’t too bad, considering some of the reports of much longer lines throughout the commonwealth.
I went in at just after 3pm, not sure what to expect. Luckily for me, there were essentially no lines, so it was in-and-out. As of 3:10pm, 2462 votes had been cast at my polling place. That’s an astounding number. I don’t know how many are registered in my precinct (I haven’t been able to find that info easily), but that’s a huge number for any precinct. And that doesn’t even include absentee ballots. As of the 2008 primary, there were 3987 registered voters in the precinct.
That’s huge turnout percentages already (over 60%). I’ll post a follow-up later once the final precinct results are posted. We’re definitely heading over 75% participation in this precinct, I’m guessing. As a comparison, there were 757 votes in my precinct for our state senator in 2007 (3927 registered voters that year), 2294 votes in my precinct for US Senator in 2006 (3961 registered voters that year), 1933 votes for governor in 2005 (3914 registered voters that year), and 2847 votes for president in 2004 (3906 registered voters). That’s a fairly steady headcount of registered voters over 4 years (there hasn’t been much development in the area during that time).
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