Turnout sparse at Barre City polls

Voters were in surprisingly short supply at Barre City this morning.
“There’s nobody here,” veteran poll worker Gary Adamski said. “I’ve never seen it this bad.”
Election officials easily outnumbered voters in what Adamski said was a remarkably slow first hour.
The polls opened at 7 a.m. and by 8 a.m., only 47 of the city’s 6,500 registered voters had cast ballots.
That figure didn’t count 168 absentee ballots, though City Clerk Carol Dawes said that number was significantly lower than other elections.
Turnout wasn’t any better in neighboring Barre Town where only 55 voters had cast ballots in an all-school election by 8:30 a.m.
“This is the slowest start I can remember,” Town Clerk Donna Kelty said. “Hopefully it picks up.”