Election Day Advice: A Great Deal of Patience and Take a Walk

Town Clerk says tomorrow's election could be record setter with competitive races and a Presidential interest.

The doors to the absentee voting area in Belmont Town Hall was closed and locked a minute after noon. Nearly 90 registered voters took the opportunity in the the final four hours that Belmont residents had to opportunity to vote early in the Town Clerk's office for tomorrow's general election, said Belmont Town Clerk Ellen Cushman. "They were waiting out the door into the hallway," she said, noting the interest by the public in Tuesday's election. Since absentee ballots were available in September, about one in eight of the 17,800 voters in town took out applications to vote: 1,999 residents requested applications – including Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann – while 143 overseas resident and members of the armed forces …

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