Pleasant, sunny weather and two hotly-contested state races kept a steady trickle of voters going through local polling places around noon Tuesday to cast their votes in the midterm elections.
“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood,” called out one Franklin voter to another on his way into the First Baptist Church polling place for Franklin’s 1st voting district.
The voters turned out to finally have their say after hearing repeatedly from the candidates over the airwaves and in the newspapers the last several months in the Oz-Fetterman U.S. Senate race and the Shapiro-Mastriano gubernatorial battle.
By about 10:30 a.m. at the Cornplanter Township polling place at Christ Lutheran Church on Grandview Road, about 150 people had already cast their ballots, with a line of several more waiting their turn to vote.
“It was really easy,” said first-time voter Trinity Garner about her experience voting in the Centre Town Cafe, an Oil City polling place for the city’s 3rd voting district.
“I just wish it wasn’t so divisive,” Jay Poindexter of Franklin said.
— By Helen Fielding
