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I just got off the phone with Secretary of State Mary Herrera who said polls are so slow that workers are “just kind of sitting around and waiting for people to come and vote.”
Hererra said no problems with machines or ballots have been reported so far. The only complaints she’s had have been about campaigners standing within the 100-foot limit around polling places.
Ironically, she said the worst offenders have been supporters of candidates for sheriff.
But for the most part, Hererra said, “No news is good news.”
“Usually we have calls about machines and not opening of polls, [complaints about] presiding judges and things like that. But we’ve been preparing for months and we trained the county clerks well, and they trained their poll officials well…”
Herrera said her office had not heard of any problems with early voting.
