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Records set in LA's 1st day of early voting
Polling sites across Louisiana did brisk business Tuesday as roughly 40,000 voters took advantage of the first day of early voting for this year's hotly contested presidential election. That easily surpassed the first day of early voting in 2008, which logged just fewer than 31,800 voters, according to the secretary of state's elections division.
Several parishes, including St. Tammany, Jefferson and Orleans, added a third polling place to handle the interest drummed up by the near-even national contest between President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to say nothing of the draw of local elections and nine amendments to the state Constitution. And voters are going to the polls despite Louisiana being practically written off by both national campaigns as a decidedly Republican stronghold.
"We had record turnout across the state," said Meg Casper, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Tom Schedler.
Louisiana was one of 10 states and the District of Columbia to open its early voting booths on Tuesday. Civic-minded registered voters can continue to avoid election-day crowds through next Tuesday, when early voting ends. The polls are open during that time from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. every day except Sunday.
Several parishes, including St. Tammany, Jefferson and Orleans, added a third polling place to handle the interest drummed up by the near-even national contest between President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to say nothing of the draw of local elections and nine amendments to the state Constitution. And voters are going to the polls despite Louisiana being practically written off by both national campaigns as a decidedly Republican stronghold.
"We had record turnout across the state," said Meg Casper, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Tom Schedler.
Louisiana was one of 10 states and the District of Columbia to open its early voting booths on Tuesday. Civic-minded registered voters can continue to avoid election-day crowds through next Tuesday, when early voting ends. The polls are open during that time from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. every day except Sunday.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/10/records_set_in_louisianas_firs.html
