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Voting after work Tuesday wasn’t a quick trip
In fact, long lines greeted many area voters before, after work
David O'Connor//November 8, 2016
Voting after work Tuesday wasn’t a quick trip
In fact, long lines greeted many area voters before, after work
David O'Connor//November 8, 2016
And the turnout was heavy through the early morning, remained steady all day long and by mid-afternoon broke the record the polling place set during the governor’s race of two years ago, local elections officials said.
The scene at the Lancaster County polling place was repeated in countless other places in the midstate on Tuesday.
And if you’re heading out to vote after work, you better not make any early dinner reservations.
Expect especially heavy turnout from dinnertime through 8 p.m., when polls close in Pennsylvania, elections officials have said throughout the day.
Expect clear skies and temperatures still in the 50s in the Harrisburg-York-Lancaster area early this evening.
“It’s the busiest one I’ve seen,” said Manor Township judge of elections Jim Clymer of the turnout at Millersville BIC.
The Manor Township precinct has 2,200 registered voters, and over 1,100 of them had voted by just after 3 p.m. That already surpassed the nearly 1,000 from the 2014 gubernatorial race, Clymer said.
Along with the bitterly-contested presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, today’s election features a U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Pat Toomey and Democrat Katie McGinty and various local races.
By the time the polls closed at 8 p.m., 1,144 of the township’s 1,500 or so registered voters had cast ballots, elections officials on hand said.
