Politics & Government

'Steady' Voter Turnout at Polls

For a non-presidential election, local officials say a decent number came out to cast votes.

The weather certainly couldn't be an excuse for why voters failed to come out in droves to vote today.

Yet, for a year when only local and county races were on the ballot, election officials in Hatboro and Horsham said they saw a "slow, but steady" flow of voters at the polls.

"We weren't expecting a big turnout," said Peter Choate, Horsham's judge of elections. "There's no big national thing."

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Still, by just after 2 p.m., Choate said 150 of 804 voters had cast votes at the , which houses two of the township's largest voting districts.

In Hatboro, Marian Demcisak, the judge of elections at - the borough's largest polling locale with approximately 1,800 to 1,900 voters - said she was seeing a "good turnout" and expected 450 to 500 in total to cast votes by the time the polls close tonight.

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"This is decent for an off year," Demcisak said, noting that when the polls opened for the 2008 presidential election, 50 people were waiting in line. "It has everything to do with if there's a contest that people are interested in."


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