Polls open to long lines

As expected, turnout has been especially heavy at the polls this morning. Long lines have greeted voters from Piedmont to Ashland as residents take part in the historic 2008 election.

Apart from the well-publicized presidential race, voters in east central Alabama will be deciding tight races for U.S. Senate, the 3rd Congressional Seat and 3rd district seat on the state board of education.

Additionally, voters in Cleburne and Randolph counties will decide on legalizing alcohol sales.

Statewide, voters will decide the fate of Amendment 1, which would allow Alabama's schools to draw temporarily from the state's rainy day fund.

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