Turnout appears high as Mainers cast votes in presidential primary

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/03/03/polls-are-open-maine-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Voter turnout for Maine’s first presidential primary in 20 years appears to be higher than expected, with some polling places running low on ballots.

State and local election officials say both the Democratic primary and a referendum on a law requiring mandatory childhood vaccines seem to be driving voters to the polls on Super Tuesday.

Today marks the first time in two decades that Mainers are using a primary system to express their presidential preference. After high turnout during the 2016 presidential caucuses led to confusion and long delays in some locations, state lawmakers voted last year to join the vast majority of states that use statewide presidential primary elections.

<snip>

Maine voters will also consider Question 1, a “people’s veto” that seeks to overturn a law that requires children to be vaccinated to attend school unless they have a medical exemption.

<more>

[Botany]

1. The Mainers are high?

Lob stirr, chow derr, and some marijuana? Party on Bangor.

[jpak]

2. Yessah - and we don't Bogart

Nossah.

[Botany]

3. But you guys can pha-ark you-are karrh

On the yaard.

Btw from 3rd to 6th I was taken out of my class 2 times a week to work on my speech defect. I learned to speak in Amherst, Massachusetts.

[LiberalFighter]

4. So can't really say turnout will be higher than usual when previously they were caucuses.