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NH votes
Posted by Raven on November 7th, 2006
NH votes.
Concord – Turnout at polling places around the state was strong this morning, according to Secretary of State William Gardner.
Gardner said reports from voting locations in the north, the Lakes Region and southern New Hampshire show turnout at a pace roughly equal to presidential election years.
Heavy turnout was reported in Piermont and Haverhill in Grafton County, Meredith and Wolfeboro in the Lakes Region and in Londonderry, Auburn and Nashua in the southern tier.
Gardner said there is no telling whether the trend will continue until polls close tonight. In some years, turnout is heavy early in the day, then tapers off as evening approaches, he said.
Last week, Gardner predicted that nearly 48 percent of eligible voters would go to the polls today. He based that estimate, higher than usual for a mid-term election, on absentee ballot requests. Local election officials told him they’d seen an unusually high number of requests for absentee ballots.
Yes…that southern tier includes my town….
Nashua Telegraph-Souhegan Valley:
Morning turnout was heavy in the Souhegan Valley, with 1300 voters at Milford Middle School before 11 a.m. and 1000 in Amherst. Things were really impressive in Hollis, however, where a whopping 955 voters, one-fifth of the total number of voters in town, had cast ballots by 10:30 a.m. This is in marked contrast to the September primary, wgeb fewer than 300 people cast ballots in Hollis all day, and things got so dull at the polling place that, says Town Clerk Nancy Jambard,. “We had to go get the cards out!”
Hudson:
The morning turnout in Hudson seemed to be running consistent with reports of brisk turnout in other parts of the state. By 8 a.m., one hour after the polls opened, about 325 voters had already cast ballots. At 11:24 a.m., Hudson Voter No. 1,397 slid his completed ballot into the box. Asked if the turnout at that point was good for a midterm election, the poll worker behind the ballot box nodded and said: “Oh, yeah.”
Dover:
“We’ve been open 15 minutes and we’ve got 60 voters. We’re looking at a moderate to good turnout today,” he said, calling it a “morale booster.”
It’s good to see so many folks voting!
