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Heavy Voter Turnout in the Commonwealth

WEKU | By Laurel Wilson
Published November 6, 2012 at 8:39 PM EST

When Carol Gard, a polling official at Bowling Green Junior High School, arrived at the school at 6 a.m. today to open the polls, a line of people waiting to vote had already formed. “There hasn’t been much downtime,” Gard said a few hours after polls opened. “It’s been constant.” She’s worked as a polling official for years, and presidential elections are always the busiest, she said.
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