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6:54 AM.: 54
10:35A.M.: 605
1:00 P.M.: 905
1:30 P.M.: about 1,100 That equates to about 200 per hour, and that's mainly during the slowest time of the day !

The mid-day voting was relatively slow (max. time in line 15 minutes, most of the time no more than a minute) but very steady.

At this rate, when the voters coming home from work start to show up we expect a pretty large increase in the hourly rate, to the extent that Bull Run precinct could well equal or even exceed last year's turnout.

We have been getting what appears to be an unusually high percentage of people accepting the Dem. sample ballot and declining the GOP sample ballot. One thing we're hearing a lot is that voters have been very turned off by Corey Stewart's "one trick pony" anti- illegal immigration attempt to divert voters from the real issues affecting PWC. After reading Sharon's lit., almost all people we've talked to have emphasized that they want a new chair who will serve the county's needs and they can see Corey has failed to do so. Looks like Corey has generated a major backlash - even from GOP people who live at Heritage Hunt where I live (probably 80% GOP or GOP-leaning -- until now). 

This appears to also be causing a lot of voters to vote for Corey Riley (against John Stirrup) as well as for Bruce Roemmelt (13th HOD against Bob Marshal).

We are fortunate that all the Dem. candidates are on the top line of the ballot, and we've been pointing that out to voters: Since only the Va. House and Senate candidates are identified by party, if they forget who they wanted to vote for all they have to remember is to pick from the top line, and that little bit of info./reminder for the voters seems to be working very well.

BTW, I visited three more Gainesville District precints (a lot smaller than Bull Run) and we're seeing much the same trend. At this rate it appears that most, maybe all, of the western PWC precincts will end the day with a high turnout, which I think is to our advantage. I don't know what's happening in the eastern 2/3 of PWC.

  T.C.  

But then we have two (Democratic) incumbments running unopposed for the House & Senate - Janet Howell and Ken Plum. But (Democrat) Cathy Hudgins, who is running for reelection to the Board of Supervisors, was at my polling place shaking hands and securing last minute votes. She's really nice.

While you're out at the polls supporting Democrats in Fairfax today, don't forget to cast your vote for Dale Evans for Clerk of the Circuit Court. The "D" may not appear next to his name on the ballot, but he has done everything right as the Democratic nominee in his campaign.

Dale out-fundraised his opponent by a $10,000 margin. He has stayed out of the dirt while his opponent misled Fairfax voters and shirked all responsibility for the problems in his office. Dale has the endorsements of firefighters, law enforcement officers, Governors Kaine and Warner, and the Commonwealth Attorney (who relies the most heavily out of anyone on this office). And he had the guts to break the Fairfax Republican real estate scandal involving Senator Cuccinelli, which the 'mainstream' media has been too lazy to cover.

First and foremost, Dale is offering real, honest solutions to the many problems which plague the Clerk of Court's office. He will secure our records and stop his opponent's current practice of selling them off. He will extend the hours of the office so that we can all take advantage of its services. And he will show up for work every day, working hard to make sure that our interests - not just those of his friends in the Senate - are protected.

Vote for Dale. Vote for Democrats!

one comment - I have had several people ask about Chap and guns.  When I point out issue in question was to allow licensed carriers including law enforcement with off-duty guns to have a weapon in their car (not in the building) while dropping off their kids, the resistance seems to dsappear.

Hard if you didn't memorize every single person as there were no D's on most of the ballots.

I hate to do this, but I end up having to take the Democratic sample ballot and using that as a guide for some of these things.  Things like Soil & Water or School Board?  I recently moved into Hunter Mill, and a lot of the names are new to me, and nobody talks about them very much.

For that matter, it is unusual to have such a high-profile state senate race.

The former republican chair of alexandria  came in to vote and we joked with him awhile.

Early reports from the Peninsula indicated a more robust than normal turnout in the areas of the 1st Senate District. In Virginia Beach and Norfolk, turnout has been reported as low but steady.

It looks like the GOTV effort will make the difference. There were Democratic lit drops throughout the 21st and 83rd House Districts last night. Other areas were likely dropped also.

106 Cora Kelly 200
107 Mt. Vernon 
207Beth El 174
208 NOVA 
209  Polk 173
210 St. James 74
302 St. Martin 114
303 Beatly 140
304 Tucker 
305 John Adams 104
306  Ramsey 
307 South Port 159
308 Cameron Station 174
 

Popes Head: 412 voters at 10 AM
Allen won this one last year -- in the Janet-Cooch district

Kingstowne: 212 voters at 10 AM
Webb won this one last year -- in the Barker/O'Brien district

The Republicans came in real early or late last night and put out their signs everywhere.  Some were near where we have situated our table, making it look as though we are Republican supporters.  Typical bullying tactic.  So, we put our signs in front of those, next to the concrete curb so that no signs would fit in front of ours.

I have a good feeling about all the races in PWC.

Everything I hear is Rishelle and Miller are locked tight, too.

I also noted that Frederick was probably the youngest person I met at the polling place.  Pretty much everyone I saw was white and gray haired which in my mind doesn't bode well for a county so focused on hispanic immigrants. 

I'm not sure what the expectations for this area are.  I've figured that Frederick would win easily (and maybe even deservedly in this case).  But I was hoping enough people were sickened by Stewart to send him packing.  I guess we'll see.

No long lines at 9:15 am, but seemed like a decent number of people there.

That's what NLS has up.  Here is the alleged transcript (note Tom Davis' razor sharp logic).

Mary Petersen shows up to Robinson where Tom has been trashing Chap.  A transcript follows:

"Tom Davis: "I see you pumped another 10 grand into your boy's campaign."

Mary Petersen: "That's not even close to what you put into your wife's campaign"

Tom Davis (screaming):  "IT'S WASN'T MY MONEY, IT WAS OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY."

"ABC 7/NewsChannel 8's Matt Brock reports that turnout was moderate at Forest Park High School in Woodbridge."

Go phone bank.*

*(unless you're like me and don't live in a city with a opposed candidate today).

On a side note, turnout was high in this true blue precinct (New River)... which bodes well for Bill Thomas. By the same token, Giles County turnout is through the roof due to the six-way clerk of court race. It's a left-leaning county, and another positive for Bill Thomas.

Reports are coming back that Annie Crockett-Stark doesn't have poll workers in Tazewell County, or even any signs. The only two precincts in the 6th that are there go better than 65% Republican. Turnout looks depressed there.

No report back from Bland and Wythe yet, but Reynolds and Thomas campaign staff and volunteers were knocking on doors and dragging voters to the polls in Wythe, in addition to phone banks sponsored by the Wythe Democratic Committee.

at 1:30  694

Precinct captain says it is somewhat slow  ..  rains an win this morning meant not much turnout early

projects to around 1300 total votes

a number of Republicans voting for Chap -  some offended by JMDD's RINO comment, others for other reasons

I went to Vienna/Flint Hill to vote this morning at 7:30 am.  Although it was drizzly and ugly out then, the turnout looked pretty good - I had to wait at least 5 minutes to vote - and people were pretty briskly coming in and out of the building and parking lot.

Couple hundered in Lyon Village this morning, but we're not a very big precinct (I think). No wait at 8:30 for me or 11:30 when my partner voted.

Obenshain is probably a done-deal here, tho.  Ms. Roles didn't gain any traction in this deep red pocket of the state.

Good job getting the info out via RK!

-i

Webb won the precinct with 55% last year.

http://www.fairfaxco...

The Fairfax County Electoral Board expects that unofficial election returns may be significantly delayed this year due to new restrictions on the use of wireless technology in the polling places. The election precincts will manually add the results from their individual voting machines and phone in their returns to the Office of Elections. Election staff will be manually inputting the unofficial results data into spreadsheets that are exported to the county and state Web sites.

Earlier this year, the 2007 General Assembly voted to prohibit the use of wireless communications on voting equipment while the polls are open on Election Day. In order to comply with this legislation, the wireless component on the county's 1,200 voting machines was disabled during the pre-election set-up and testing of the equipment. As a result, the precincts do not have the ability to tabulate their machines wirelessly and cannot transmit their returns via modem to the Fairfax County Government Center.

Hearing bad things with respect to Pollard and Pandak. The numbers look bad. The numbers aren't looking good with respect to unseating the Cooch or for Chap either.

We got over confident and we screwed the pooch big time. It doesn't help that Pelosi and Reid have managed to make us look more incompetent than Bush on a national level.

I hope it's not true.

You guys kept on forgetting the overall district with Pollard.  Satfford is a huge runup and Stewart holds his own being from the same area as Pollard.

At the same time Fairfax is a disaster for the Rs.
I still think you guys have an outside shot ousting Cooch and I have no idea about Obrien vs Barker.  It seems this race has been under the radar of the blogosphere from both sides

21-19 Dem senate

October 31, 2007: Sen. John W. Warner was hospitalized for the third time in a month Wednesday for what his office called a "low-grade infection" related to his treatment for a minor heart problem.

Doctors discovered an infection in the 80-year-old senator's thigh during a follow-up appointment at Inova Fairfax Hospital, according to a statement from Warner's office.

He was admitted for treatment and observation and should be able to return to the Senate next week, the release said.

Is failure to put the party affiliation on the ballot a matter of state law?  Does anyone know the answer to this?  In a state that is currently "red" in the General Assembly  (and most of our local officials in the West End of Richmond are Republicans) this seems to give an unfair advantage to incumbents who have higher name recognition.  One could argue that voters should be informed enough to know each and every candidate, but that is not always possible and knowing party affiliation is an important bit of information, particularly in less visible races.

Is this true everywhere in Virginia?  If this is mandated by it would seem to be a law that needs to be changed.  Party affiliation was ALWAYS on the ballot in the state we lived in before moving here.

http://leg1.state.va...

What was everyone elses experience today - were your candidates ID'd by party in your locality?