Slow Start for Polls in Bowie Tuesday Morning

With polls opening at 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, voting is off to a slow start at most locations around Bowie.

"Nobody was waiting when we opened up," said John Mulqueen, Chief Election Judge at the polling location for District 1A, at the Huntington Community Center in Old Bowie. And with only 45 voters by late Tuesday morning, Mulqueen commented, "It's been slow." 

Chief Judge Chris Follett said the same about the polling location for District 2A at . With roughly 77 voters in about five hours, "It's been very, very quiet," said Follett.

Abba Polangin, husband of District 2 incumbent Diane Polangin, was outside of CCPC talking to voters as they came in this morning and said that despite the slow start, people are coming out and, "everybody we talk to is into the issues."

Things were more active at the Kenhill Center, where both District 2 candidates Diane Polangin and Pete Mellits were outside campaigning, and the flow of voters was described as slow and steady.