Solid Turnout at Polls Midway Through Election Day

The Natick Town Election three weeks ago had a very poor voter turnout.

When the official results came out, the voter turnout was in the 10 percent range. This could've been for a variety of reasons, notably the lack of contested races (there were just two).

Today, the entire state is voting in the special primary election for U.S. Senate. This election became necessary when John Kerry became United States Secretary of State, and here in Natick it looks like more people have been interested in voting today than they were on April 9.

At the Morse Institute Library, where precinct 8 votes, 235 voters has cast their ballots as of 4 p.m.

Similar numbers were found at the Natick Community-Senior Center, where precincts 7 and 9 vote. Each of those precincts had seen 256 voters at 4 p.m.

Voters in precincts 4 and 5 vote at Wilson Middle School. The total number of voters at 4 p.m. were 276 in precinct 5 and 200 in precinct 4.

Polls will be open until 8 p.m.