And we are off! The Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration & Elections has reported that as of 9 am, 17,556 people had voted in the county. That is 26.1 percent of Albemarle’s registered voters. The next figure on voter turnout will be around 1pm. Stay tuned.
I woke up this morning with the sense that there’s some task I need to do, but I can’t quite put my finger on it, dammit. No wait, don’t say anything — it’ll come to me.
The around-the-block lines of the morning have melted in the midday rain. At Recreation precinct, there was no wait to vote a few moments ago. Ditto for Tonsler and Alumni Hall.
Tom Perriello’s brother-in-law holds down the fort with a few Democrats; local Republicans field an empty table.
Before 7am at the Tonsler Park Recreation Center on Cherry Avenue, close to 100 people lined up waiting to cast their ballot. By 8:30am, the line wasn’t much of a line at all.
As of 1pm, 49.9 percent of registered voters have voted in Albemarle County, reports the Albemarle County Department of Voter Registration and Elections, a total of33,613 people.
“Did you really vote for Karl Marx?” and a battle over campaign posters.
As of 1pm, 11,877 people, or 41.4 percent, cast their ballots in the eight precincts in the city.
Despite the mid-October ban of politically charged clothing by the Virginia State Board of Elections, voters are still wearing their desired candidates on their sleeve.