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Charlottesville's Walker Upper Elementary School opened its doors
to voters of the precinct until 7 p.m. / Picture: Marguerite Gallorini |
Polls opened at 6 o’clock this morning. Marguerite Gallorini made it early to one polling station in Charlottesville, where voters were selecting two new city council members, in addition to candidates for the statewide contests.
Several hours before the rain hit the city, people braved the cold to go vote before work at Charlottesville’s Walker Upper Elementary School. Independent City Council candidate Nikuyah Walker, doing a tour of all the precincts with her son Dante, was here encouraging people - or maybe was it people encouraging her.
NIKUYAH WALKER: Turnout has been really good. Lots of 'I got you', 'you already have my vote' so…
Whatever the results, she considers it all to be a success.
WALKER: I've been able to share this whole what I've been talking about the campaign that there's two Charlottesvilles and not one; and even the problems within the local Democratic party that we saw on a national level that got Trump elected.
Speaking of problems, John Worozbyt is a little confused about the candidates he voted for.
JOHN WOROZBYT: I tend to be a Democratic Party hack and so I voted for Northam for Governor, and Herring for, I want to say lieutenant governor, and then attorney general... That's terrible, that's why I'm a Democratic Party hack! I can't tell you... I know that John Adams was a Republican candidate…
He particularly disliked some of the attack ads that Republicans ran, he says. So did UVa professor Hector Amaya.
HECTOR AMAYA: It was so, so important to vote against Gillespie and his politics of hate. I hope you understand, coming from a Latino, how hurtful it is to be exposed to the type of advertizing that Gillespie has issued, and we will remember.
A kind of rhetoric that might have fostered a little more commitment to vote on the part of Virginians, says chief election official Sheila Haughey:
SHEILA HAUGHEY: I know we've had a lot of absentee voters in the City, and I hear that's true in the County as well, this time.
This story appeared on WMRA News.
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