For Brunswick County’s elections director, two complaints out of the 17,000 voters expected to file through the polls today is a pretty decent record.
“So far, so good,” Greg Bellamy said from his office near Bolivia Tuesday. “It has really been smooth.”
The two complaints he referenced concerned a couple voters who were having trouble with the push-button ballot machines, but they were swiftly addressed and their votes counted as they intended, Bellamy said.
“On a day when you’re going to maybe vote 17,000, I’m tickled to death when it’s just a couple complaints,” he said.
His office, which recorded robust one-stop voting activity, expects this year’s general election to generate a 72- or 73-percent turnout in Brunswick County, “a little bit above 2008.” That year, the county’s participation was 70 percent.
In Pender County, where roughly 50 percent of the electorate voted early this year, Director Dennis Boyles cast a turnout estimate of 70 to 80 percent. “They’re voting,” he said Tuesday, though it was “not near as busy as it was on one-stop.”
His office reported no problems.
Election Day polls will remain open until 7:30 p.m.
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