In Severna Park, there were multiple polling locations within a mile or less of one another fully staffed with election judges at each place.
Traveling around the park on Tuesday, primary election day, one could not help but notice the numerous places open to voters—many within a half mile or mile of each other. Severna Park High School, Severna Park Elementary School and the library are one example. You could walk to each one. Up the road, north along Ritchie Highway was the Earleigh Heights Fire Station, Pasadena Elementary School on Waterford Road and the Pasadena United Methodist Church on Ritchie Highway. All within about a mile of one another. All open to Severna Park voters, depending on which precinct you live in. At the locations visited on Tuesday, each location found election judges and workers quietly chatting, reading books or knitting. Each reporting a slow day. …
Patch paid a visit to a few local polling stations to gauge voter turnout.
Nary a line could be found on Tuesday morning and afternoon at Severna Park area voting stations. However, there were friendly and welcoming election judges but few, if any, voters to talk to when I cruised around the park with a fellow Patch editor on primary election day. Just before noon at the Severna Park Library, 57 people had voted. There were reportedly six people waiting for the doors to open at 7 a.m. After the first hour, election judges said 16 people had voted. Election judges arrive on site before 6 a.m. and stay until the voting is over, keeping many of them there until after 9 p.m. Chief election judges Gale Gillespie and Rose Ann Feldman stationed at the Severna Park Library started their shift at 5:30 a.m. and won't end …
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Amy Leahy
7:39 pm on Saturday, April 7, 2012
In Edgewater there were two schools sharing a campus that each had voting ….South River High School and Central Middle School. I was electioneering outside one with another volunteer and when we discovered the voters were in the wrong location I went to the other school. How ridiculous that both precincts couldn't be housed in the same school. It was definitely a discouragement to voters - … more ›