I had a feeling that something like this might happen. All day yesterday and overnight, my referral logs showed an inordinate amount of people coming here after doing a search for “Virginia Super Tuesday” or something like that. I didn’t think anything of it, because, obviously, everyone knows that Virginia’s primary is next week.
Right ? Wrong:
People are showing up at polling places across Virginia expecting to vote in presidential primaries that are still a week away.
By noon Tuesday, the State Board of Elections received about 400 calls, and many callers wanted to know why their polling places were closed.
Officials said that volume of calls is double to triple the normal call volume.
Twenty-four states are picking presidential nominees today in what’s become known as Super Tuesday. Virginia’s Republican and Democratic primaries are Feb. 12, next Tuesday. Maryland and the District of Columbia are also holding their primaries next week.
The early arrivals are more evidence that next week’s primary is expected to be draw an unusually heavy turnout.
Maybe, but you’d think that if people cared about the election that much, they’d take the time to actually get the date right.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am
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