Politics & Government
Election Judges: Voting in Bowie Has Been Slow, Steady
Things have been going smoothing and lines have been short to nonexistent, according to election judges.
At about halfway into Bowie's 2013 municipal elections, around 2,000 residents had cast their ballots to vote for the mayor, council members and on council terms, with most election judges in the eight polling substations saying voting had been slow at times but steady.
Chief Election Judge Trudy Neff, who was staffing polling station 1B, said only about 7 percent of voters had turned out as of 2 p.m., with 375 votes cast. She called voting "steady, but slow."
About 300 voters had cast ballots by 3 p.m. in District 2A, and election judges said voters had been coming in "non-stop."
The city employed a new type of voting machines this year, but things were still going fairly smoothly.
"It's a new system, but it's really easy," comments District 1A's Chief Election Judge, John Mulqueen.
District 2B Chief Election Judge Karen Clabby also commented that the new system was much better than ones used in previous years.
"The new ballot is very simple, much less complicated than years past," said Clabby, who has been serving as an election judge since 1990.
Did you vote in Bowie's municipal election? How did you find the process?
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