Happy election day. Polls are open until 8 p.m. Please know that we’re counting on all of our readers to be our eyes and ears today.
Let us know what you’ve experienced at the polls, which campaigns are represented, which candidates you run into, if there was a line, what you recommend at any bake sales and so on. Also, make a note of the number on the ballot machine, your ward and the time you voted and report back.
Have a great day and remember, be kind!
I’ll be holding up a no on charter sign, A Matthew Miller Sign, and a Cyrus Vaghar Sign. After that, I’ll be live covering results from Newton elections and elections around the country on my youtube channel, LoganZombieOfTime. I hope you can tune in!
1/3, Bigelow School, 8am, I was the 71st voter.
Hyde Community Center, 8:20 am, 179th voter. Saw John Rice and Greg.
Voter #109 at 8:30 a.m. 5/2 at the Hyde Center.
I’ve never seen a larger standout in any election! So many great people including former state Treasurer Steve Grossman, holding a sign for his daughter-in-law Becky. Everyone seemed to be chatting nicely with everyone else, no matter which campaign sign they were holding.
@Jake: You should have introduced yourself!
1/4, Pellegrini Playground, just before 8:00am, 56th voter. Seemed like there were more people holding signs than I’ve seen at prior elections, for sure. Should be an exciting evening as the results come in.
8/3 Countryside, 9:10 a.m. Voter #153
@greg I put some pictures of sign holding on Twitter & tagged V14. Share away!
Great spirit out there, and lots of friendly faces on all sides.
Voter #1 in Ward 5/2! Hoping for the best for Matt Miller!
Horace Mann, 125 voters before 9:30 am. The NAC had 50 votes at a separate table with a paper ballot.
Cabot Park Village had 94 voters at 9:00 am and were not counting the NAC ballots.
8/4 Number 119 at 10 am.
Voter 304 at 3/2 (Peirce) at 10:25. No sign holders, oddly enough.
Also, if you’ve not voted yet, and you plan on doing a write-in, you might want to bring a pen. The fill-in-the-blank pens aren’t great for writing!
Happy voting!
I was sign holding at Peirce from 7 – 9, Dan Foley. Sorry to have missed you. We had a strong group of sign holders for those two hours. I voted early – was #100 – and the turn out was steady.
Voter #1 in my X/Y. Technically, I was the second to sign in, but the first to complete my ballot. Since there are so few qualified candidates, it took practically no time to fill in the very few circles corresponding to people and charters with whom/which I agree.
5/1 (Emerson) – Voter 227. I also did a standout from 7-8:30 am and seemed slow, but not terrible. Lots of visibilities in the morning, and lots of illegally unmanned campaign signs left out now.
A quick shout out for the Lennon campaign.
I was at Bowen earlier and much to the delight of a bunch of sign holders they provided Coffee and Water for ALL of the sign holders!
5/1 Emerson Community Center: Number 174 at 9:55 am.
Thanks to Chris Steele for holding my signs while I ran home to get gloves! Chilly morning.
Bigelow 7-9:30 a.m.: many signholders of all stripes. Toll House cookies and Antoine’s pizzeles offered to all 🙂
Was unable to add earlier- big variety of signs at Bigelow at 8am. A sign for Andrea Kelley (at large from Ward 3) caught my eye, as I don’t recall seeing other differently-warded At Large candidates represented there (not the same as saying they weren’t)
Voter #427 in 2/3, the senior center, at 11:30. Probably 12 sign holders for Lennon and Vote No, a couple for Houston. I forget who else. More signs than I’ve seen in other elections at that spot.
Several of the Lennon and Vote No crowd were together, some on the corner but a bunch were crowded on the sidewalk on Highland at the entrance to the senior center driveway causing voters to go in the street to get around them. That was annoying.
Lots of sign holders at Burr this afternoon, plus two familiar faces: Amy Sangiolo and Scott Lennon. There was one Fuller sign, about 10 Lennon signs, and TONS of Sharma signs. Also some really good baked sale goodies.
Fair amount of sign holders at Mason-Rice this morning. Sign holders for both Brenda and Blazar along with several YES and a NO plus Shen and Miller.
Great Bake Sale benefitting MR 5th Graders in the Polls!
#2 at 2-3.
Please come by crowne plaza at 8 if you can for election results watching. But vote first!
#435 around 1:30 pm in Ward 6/1 (Weeks Field Senior Center). Just one lone sign-holder for Brenda Noel in the area.
The waves of envy are washing over me as I read these comments.
I really do love my neighborhood but this nightmarish lack of baked goods at my local polling station (Emerson) is a serious Upper Falls shortcoming. We’re going to have to get to work on that for the next election.
Bacon & eggs, peanut butter & jelly, voting & baked goods – its as simple as that.
Just voted at Peirce. No sign holders, no bake sale. I was voter 500ish…I forgot the exact number!
MMQC, I think they must have closed up the bake sale since school let out. It was awesome this morning! And the coffee helped us frozen sign holders!!
More sign holders than voters midday at Mason-Rice (6/4), where at a little past noon I was voter #513. Freaked out because I’m so superstitious, then went to share sign-holding duties with the other NO and/or Blazar volunteers, including Blazar himself. We just about tore our hair out when a voter complained to us that she hadn’t seen either on the ballot. If the At-Larges vastly outpoll School Committee and the ballot question, we’ll know that Newtonites, for all their undoubted virtues, aren’t great at following directions.
Around #550 at Burr (4/1) with a steady stream of people walking in. Lots of Sharma and Lennon sides outside.
#542 at Scott Lennon’s home district- Ward 1/1 at 5pm. Lots of sign holders, no lines/waiting, no bake sale.
1/4 Pellegrini park 732 @ 630pm
Looking at these last couple numbers, as compared to the 2009 mayoral election, and it appears that 1/1 and 1/4 have a very strong total voter turnout. 1/4 had 446 total mayoral votes in 2009.
Eli Katzoff offering coffees to sign holders at Mason-Rice this evening. I didn’t get the chance to chat with him as I was departing but I really thought that was a nice touch. Hope to see him running in a future election!
8/3 Countryside – Eli Katoff sighting. Great coffee. Great turnout here at 7pm 720 voted vs 787 at end of night in 2009. Could break through that number.
558 by the time I left the Emerson at 7:30pm. Paul Coletti wins the prize for longest time standing out in the cold with a sign. Great cameraderie among all the sign holders. I love election day.