NPR: Listener Checks In: Voting in Hamilton, New York

Listener Checks In: Voting in Hamilton, New York

Filed under: Election 2008

Peggy Geary and her daughter Elizabeth. Geary, the first to cast a ballot when the polls opened, said she was voting for change.

Courtesy of David Hollis/Radio Free Hamilton

David Hollis (aka @aardvarko on Twitter) checks in from Hamilton, New York, with a straw poll Monday of students in grades 6-12.

Hollis, of the local news site Radio Free Hamilton, got the results from a teacher friend of his. He Tweets: "Obama 102 & Hillary 26. GOP: McCain 25, Paul 13, Rommney 11, Huckabee 4."

Those numbers are about what you'll see in today's voting, Hollis predicts. He thinks Republican Mitt Romney will do a little better with the adults than the kids. Otherwise, it's all about Barack Obama up there. "The only signs you see here are Obama signs." Polls are open in Hamilton from noon until 9 p.m.

We'll be Tweeting the election tonight. Stroll over and check it out.

More photos from Hollis after the jump.

Thirty-five miles southeast of Syracuse, Hamilton, New York, is home to 2,500 people and Colgate University.

Courtesy of David Hollis/Radio Free Hamilton

A sign on the library door welcomes voters.

Courtesy of David Hollis/Radio Free Hamilton

Workers prepare to open the polling place.

Courtesy of David Hollis/Radio Free Hamilton

You start by checking in at the desk.

Courtesy of David Hollis/Radio Free Hamilton

Laura Conaway

1:14 PM ET | 02- 5-2008 | permalink

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At 1 p.m., I was voter #99 in my precinct. Given that I'm usually #37 at around 4 p.m., this is easily the busiest I have ever seen my precinct. And because I live in a student-heavy part of Boston (the main reason why there's so little voting in my precinct), I can only assume that bodes well for Obama.

Sent by Stewart | 2:56 PM ET | 02-05-2008

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