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Healthy line to vote at Cathedral in the South End at 7:15.
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Voting Report
By PeyoteEatingWat...
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 8:30am
Not too many people at the Henderson school on Dot Ave when I went to vote at 7:45. I was one of three people voting. There were a lot more voters present last fall for Andrea Campbell v Charles Yancey.
Busy at Jackson-Mann
By Allstonian
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 8:37am
There was no line, but a steady stream of activity at the Jackson-Mann School at 7:20 this morning. I was voter #10 for my precinct, which is actually quite impressive - the turnout is usually pathetic, but this was a decent start.
I can't wait to vote.
By Boston_res
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:13am
I'm voting for president Camacho.
No line in central
By Robert Paulson
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:16am
I was at the salvation army on mass ave at 7:15 and there was only a handful of people. I would love to see a line...what will it take to get more than 60% of people out there, regardless of who they vote for?
Realistically
By Boston_res
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:24am
Probably weekend voting. I've heard a lot of people say they'd vote if there were weekend voting.
I've also heard people mention the quality of the candidates as a reason for not getting involved.
The day of the week doesn't matter
By Waquiot
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:36am
Ireland just had an election, with one month's warning and voting on a Friday. They got 65% turnout.
I cannot say the candidates helped, since it is looing like a minority government.
If people really cared, they would vote regardless of the day of the week.
culture matters
By Sharon
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:53am
culture matters. My sister used to work for an Irish company, and it was like apples & oranges compared to american employers she worked for.
with one month's warning
By roadman
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 2:47pm
Perhaps that's the key - limit the 'pre-election' campaigning and hype so people don't get burned out. I'm sure the fact that ALL the people vote on the same day helps with the high turnout (none of this 'one state at a time spread out over six months' idiocy).
However, more campaigning before date set
By Waquiot
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 7:27pm
It's a parliamentary system, so Gerry Adams has been a candidate for decades, and the party leadership has been set for a few years. The key difference is that candidates do not actually ask for your vote until the date of the election has been set.
Of course, judging for living vicariously New Hampshire politics, I could see where burnout could be an issue. Just think how negative the campaigns will be with Clinton and Trump as the standard bearers.
Vote
By Rick C
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:21am
I was the lone voter at St.Marks in Dorchester, but it was early.
Voted in North Quincy at 8:15
By Nancy
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:30am
My precinct is super small and usually I'm the only one in the polling place. Today there were five, count 'em, FIVE voters when I was there.
I'm Unenrolled but even so the volunteer usually tries to hand me a Democrat ballot. Today she held out a Republican one without even asking me which one I wanted. She said almost no one was voting Democrat.
Hosmer School in Watertown
By JennieD(notloggedin)
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 9:56am
Hosmer School in Watertown was pretty busy at 7:30 this morning, although that was partly due to a traffic pileup at the exit caused by a broken ballot-eating machine. (Apparently there's a secret hatch built into the side that a policeman unlocks when that happens! So I'm sure my trip was probably not wasted.) But probably 10 people came in to vote while another 10 of us stood around waiting for the box to get sorted out.
Very quiet in Arlington Heights
By jmeltzer
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 10:36am
I guess people will be coming in after work.
Came across this story, now
By kvn
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 11:09am
Came across this story, now this would be a candidate :
Cheers to Tulsi Gabbard for standing up to the Clinton machine:
'' A rising Democratic star — first Samoan-American member of Congress, one of the first female combat veterans to win a House seat — Gabbard just quit as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee so she could endorse Bernie Sanders.''
Look who showed up in West Roxbury today
By adamg
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 11:27am
At Holy Name, of course.
I was there for this and it was really cool
By Iresd
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 11:39am
I had no idea it was happening - He spent a lot of time shaking hands outside.
Meant to mention
By Iresd
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:00pm
I was voter # 202 at about 10am
Quiet on the other side of W. Roxbury
By Anon
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 12:10pm
It was pretty quiet at the Beethoven around 10:00 - 107 people had voted in my precinct.
No campaign workers, no signs, no presidents.
What's really sad
By Sally
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 12:26pm
is that at one point in time, I would have said "oh cool!" Now I'm like...ughhhh.
I'd still love a chat with
By Patricia
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 2:22pm
I'd still love a chat with Clinton. I think he is one of those rare people that make a good politician and he's very personable.
Personable indeed....
By Doug1001
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 2:26pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_...
I've always heard this too.
By Sally
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 3:35pm
Friends who have met him said across the board that he has an almost magical ability to make you feel as if you're the only person in the room.
Hop he remembered to put
By kvn
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:32pm
Hope he remembered to put something in the Poor box.
Huh
By Michael
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:23pm
So much for not electioneering within 150 feet of the polls
I didn't go to Holy Name this year ...
By adamg
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:29pm
But in years past, I often see Matt right in front of the door and he'll grin and say something about how I caught him again. In fairness to him, though, they all do it, including, obviously, former presidents.
At least at the Conley School in Roslindale, which is normally a quiet little place that few visit, somebody must've actually complained because last election, the palm-card palmers were actually well away from the entrance.
It's not an excuse
By Dot
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:33pm
That's as bad as a certain person saying she'll release her transcripts " when they ALL do".
Election law should be sacred
By anon
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 5:29pm
I'm concerned about a general practice of violating election law.
Yeah!
By Dot
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:30pm
Exactly.. took the words right out of my mouth!
Memories
By Lanny Budd
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 2:39pm
In 1979 Channel 7 hired me as a temp to interview voters as they came out of the Holy Name and call in the news room every so often. Every pol in town showed up to work the lines. They saw my media badge and thought I was a reporter. I got schmoozed by every old white guy imaginable. Mayor White's uncle showed up and yelled at me that the press was something something whargarble.
A fair percentage of the voters told me that they were forbidden to tell me how they had voted because it was a secret ballot. (Facepalm before it was fashionable.)
Why did Marty
By Dot
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:28pm
Bring Clinton to Holy Name and not to one of our illustrious Boston Public schools? Many in the city offer voting locations and would give Clinton a better idea of what the city is really like. Excuse my ignorance....I thought politicians actually cared about those things.
You really don't know?
By adamg
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 2:08pm
Here goes: Holy Name is to elections as Plum Island is to blizzards: It's flooded (with voters) and it's where all the news crews go.
Sorry, it was sarcasm.
By Dot
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 4:35pm
Sorry, it was sarcasm.
Quiet but not dead in Eastie,
By anon
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 1:58pm
Quiet but not dead in Eastie, usually we have 2 of those little quad-" booths" and 2 people with check-in books; half that today, so there was a line 3-4 deep at 7:30am plus the people using the booth.
I did get the dubious pleasure of having the entire process explained to me very primly by a lady of a certain age. No, I was momentarily confused because you can usually check in at either side of the table, not because this is the first time I've ever voted.
Can't wait for this primary to end one way or another - I'm sick to my back teeth of being condescended to. Only retired boomers can possibly have an opinion on anything, apparently.
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