Most Polling Places Report Low Turnout

One word almost every election worker or campaigner said about the polling place they were at Tuesday: “slow.”

The Levittown area’s boroughs reported higher turnout than the surrounding townships, but few who either worked or who cast their ballot at previously municipal and state primaries said turnout is normally as low as it was Tuesday.

“It just seemed lower than normal for a local one,” said a Bristol Township election judge who did not want to provide their name.

“I’m not sure if it’s because we’re so polarized because of the presidential disaster or people just don’t care,” they commented.

As of 6 p.m., polling places in Falls Township and Middletown were hoovering around 100 voters out of 1,717 in the Falls polling place and around 600 a the Middletown location.

John Riotto, who was working the polling place at Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School in Bristol Township, said turnout barely cracked 82 out of 1,622 as of 5 p.m. He added that the township even has contested races.

At two Bristol Township polling places, voters asked by LevittownNow.com said they were coming out to vote in the Council race, which has been a major point of discussion in the township.

One polling place that wasn’t empty around 5:30 p.m. was Bristol Borough Junior-Senior High School in the borough. Desmond D’Adamo said he had noticed a somewhat constant stream of voters throughout the early evening.

Bristol resident Harry Crohe said he believed people in the borough came out to support candidates that were moving the riverfront town forward, noting that turnout at the polling place on Wilson Avenue.

“This is a great town,” Crohe said. “People get involved.”