At 1 p.m., the halfway point of voting, turnout at Black Rock School was tracking well ahead of the rest of the city where Democratic City Councilors Sue Brannelly and Steven Stafstrom face a major test from Republicans Rick Torres and Phil Blagys in the 130th District that also includes a portion of the West End. Turnout at Black Rock School is tracking to hit 35 percent. More than 500 electors in Black Rock had cast a vote by 1 p.m.
Democrats believe their absentee ballot operation in 130th District will be a factor if the incumbents prevail. They expected to start the day with a 100-vote lead among absentee ballot voters. That places a premium on the Republicans to run up a large win at Black Rock School to offset the Democratic operation at the Aquaculture School, the other district precinct.
On a nice weather day for voting, city turnout is generally tiny, for instance, as of 1 p.m. only 100 had voted at Harding High School in the East Side/East End 139th District, a rate that will be hard pressed to hit 10 percent by 8 p.m. the close of voting.
Turnout at the Central precinct in the West Side 132nd District is also running ahead of much of the city.
Wow, over 500 votes as of 1:00, that is a lot. I have yet to vote but I have made up my mind, I’m voting for Blagys and Torres.
Always a collegial group at Black Rock School. Let the Good Himes Roll back to work instead of being on recess at this electoral playground!
Great, donj! I am concerned about the prediction of 100 AB’s being all one-sided … they might be evenly split but if not I am sure they will be examined very carefully.
Which Democrats were running up the AB count in the 130th? Was it the DTC Democrats collecting votes for Republicans or was it Democrats looking for Democrat votes? Makes a difference.
760 votes at the Black Rock School as of 4 pm.
Is that a typo, do you mean 7600?
No, not a typo. If you look at the post, they were up to 500 at noon.
Citywide voting won’t be far north of 7600 if the lack of turnout elsewhere holds.
As of 6:54 pm 1062 votes at Black Rock School, I was the 1062nd voter.
The high turnout at the Black Rock School should be good for Rick and Phil in their City Council race.
*** Damn those bogus ABs and the cheats with them! ***