Voters In New Hampshire Swamp Polls During 2024 General Election
CONCORD, NH — With a few hours left of voting, long lines and heavy voting are being reported throughout New Hampshire as voters go to the polls for the 2024 general election.
As polls began to open Tuesday morning, people posted photos on X-Twitter showing long lines to get into polling places in Concord, Hopkinton, Merrimack, and Peterborough.
In Merrimack, about 1,000 people cast ballots during the first hour, according to Jeffrey Hastings, who was at the polls to vote and take pictures. The polling location is one of three in the town. About 100 people were also waiting in line to register to vote. Some people in line stated they had been waiting as much as 45 minutes to an hour to register. One official said it was the most significant line of voters they had ever seen at the polls.
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Hastings reported polls in Nashua later in the morning were also busy, but lines were moving briskly through polling places. Voters said it was taking about 15 minutes to get in to vote.
Heavy turnout was also seen in Concord.
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At the Ward 9 polling location around noontime, nearly 1,000 people had voted. In 2020, about 2,000 voters cast ballots.
About 30 minutes later, more than 1,700 voters had cast ballots in Ward 5, according to Nick Wallner, an election official, or about 50 percent of registered voters. About 2,700 voters cast ballots in 2020.
Similar numbers were reported at Ward 10, the city’s busiest ward. An election official said voters at the Broken Ground Elementary School were in winding lines around the gym two different times during the day Tuesday.
In Concord’s Ward 3 at around 3 p.m., 960 people had voted.
Lines were seen around polling locations in Hampton and Manchester this afternoon, too.
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