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A (good) shot in the arm for voting
Posted at: Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 10:59 AM
Voters were lined up outside Liberty Baptist Church in northeast Fayette County before 7 a.m. waiting for the polls to open this morning. Shortly after 9 a.m. 120 people had already voted out of 2,147 registered voters who live in the voting district, precinct manager JoAnn Bailey said.
“We’ve had steady turnout,” Bailey said, adding that she expects another rush at lunchtime and at the end of the work day.
Bailey said voters approached the electronic voting machines with trepidation, much like a child anticipates getting a vaccination shot at the doctor’s office. But they realized their fear of the machine was over nothing, she said.
“They love these machines,” Bailey said. “They just love them!”
Fayette reporter Rochelle Carter
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