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Dispatch From The Field
The following post was written by staff writer Michael Martinez, who spent the day observing polling places in Maryland.
Business was surprisingly smooth at the three polling places I visited in Maryland today. Voter turnout at the precincts at the Leisure World retirement village in Silver Spring and University Park Elementary School in Hyattsville was particularly impressive. Elections officials in Hyattsville told me that lines there had been long, but manageable since polls opened this morning. Only at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park did lines seem thin.
On a non-tech related note, I picked up one of the controversial "voter guides" being passed out in Prince George's County that inaccurately lumped Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele with Democratic candidates. The Washington Post already has the scoop. Allegedly, some of the folks passing out the guides were recruited at a homeless shelter in Philadelphia and bussed down to Maryland. I didn't meet any of these volunteers myself, but the precinct at University Park Elementary was buzzing with the news.
Posted by Andrew on November 7, 2006 04:26 PM | Permalink
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