Heflin 10:30 a.m.
Poll workers, one of which has been working elections since 1974, at the Heflin Rec Center have helped more than 300 folks so far. The Cleburne County voters have several unopposed races. A few voters indicated the governor's race is the main reason they came out to vote. Mostly the voters made small talk with the workers ranging from Alice Martin's singing career to their health ailments.
The is a bit of a rivalry between the right side of the gym and the left side. Voters are split by last name. Letters A through K go to the right and L through Z go to the left. At 10:30 a.m. the early letters were winning 159 voters to 158.
An early name poll worker said it was in the bag. "I've got all the Joneses and the Browns," she said.
The newest poll worker had only been working elections for 10 years. Rookie.
There was a bit of a trouble today with the ballot markers bleeding through the paper, and many ballots were kicked back.
According to an election day attorney, Jeffrey Wood of Birmingham, volunteered to monitor Cleburne County races for the Republican Party. He was looking for people violating the 30-foot rule we talked about earlier, and looking at the absentee ballot count. He said he had been to Muscadine, Ranburne, Edwardsville and Borden Springs already and had not seen any problem yet.
-Andy Johns
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