About 9.5 percent of eligible voters have cast ballots in this year's Mayoral primary elections.
As of 4 p.m., Tuesday, only 9.5 percent of eligible city voters had cast a ballot in Baltimore City’s Primary Elections. Armstead Jones, executive director of the Baltimore City Election Board, said 30,815 voters had cast ballots. At that pace, about 14,000 fewer votes will be cast than in 2007. Herb Smith, a professor of political science at McDaniel College, said he believes the light turnout in Tuesday’s Mayoral Democratic primary could be because Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake enjoyed such a large fundraising advantage. He said the race attracted high-quality candidates, but they didn’t raise the money necessary to make the primary a competitive race. “The top of the ticket tends to define turnout,” Smith said. Matthew Crenson, a …
Campaign volunteers, voters and election judges report a low turnout so far in the Baltimore City mayoral primaries.
Lynwood Wimbish, 87, stood in the parking lot of Guilford Elementary/Middle School trying to beat the late morning heat Tuesday. Wimbish would have been handing out campaign material for Councilman Bill Henry, but there were few voters to give the paraphernalia. He said he’s worked at polls near his Wilson Park home for 20 years, but couldn’t remember turnout being so low. “It’s never been like this before,” Wimbish said. There are two precincts located inside Guilford Elementary/Middle School. By about 9:40 a.m., each precinct reported 27 voters had cast ballots. In the last mayoral Democratic primary, 407 voters cast ballots for the mayor. At Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle School, volunteers electioneering for City Council candidates …
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