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Voters banging on the door at 6:50 a.m. in Riesel

By Ken Sury | Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 03:09 PM

Trib staffer Tim Woods didn’t find anyone at Riesel City Hall, the Precinct 73 polling place, when he arrived, but it is the middle of the afternoon.

Election workers there told him that they have had a pretty steady flow all day, with 112 voters by the 1:30 p.m. accounting. Of those, 53 voted Republican and 69 Democrat, which might be the most balanced party voting we’ve seen thus far.

The workers also said they had a line of people waiting before the polls opened. Some even banged on the door at 6:50 a.m. wanting to be let in, even though the site can’t open until 7 a.m. They probably wanted to get out of the cold.

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