Election Day for Virginia’s primary races is here. The polls are open through 7 p.m. Tuesday. Anyone in line at 7 p.m. will be allowed to vote.
Candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, several House of Delegates seats, and local races are on the ballot in Hampton Roads.
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On a rainy Election Day morning, voters started arriving as early as 6 a.m. at polling stations across Hampton Roads to cast ballots for their picks in Virginia primary races.
But with more than 200,000 people across the state having opted to vote early, in-person voter foot traffic was slow Tuesday at many precinct polling places.
Less busy than usual at Chesapeake Central Library
While Chesapeake Central Library is often one of its city’s busiest Election Day spots with voters rotating in and out of its front doors, only five Chesapeake residents cast ballots at the library by 7:30 am. About 9,600 Chesapeake voters cast ballots during the early voting period May 2 through June 14, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
A light drizzle at Norview Middle School
And just 21 Norfolk residents as of 8:23 a.m. had cast in-person ballots at Norview Middle School. With 5,106 registered voters, Norview is the second-largest precinct in the city.
Patricia Ferris, 63, voted and walked out of the middle school around 8 a.m. and into a light drizzle.
“I know Jay Jones personally. I used to work with him at Willcox & Savage,” she said, headed back to her parked vehicle. “He’s a great guy. So that’s the biggest reason that I’m here.”
Jones, a Hampton Roads attorney, and Shannon Taylor, the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney, are vying for the Democratic nomination for Virginia attorney general.
Ferris said that when she once asked Jones to give her son some guidance, the lawyer changed her family’s life, encouraging her son to consider attending Tidewater Community College, where he ultimately earned a welding certificate.
“We didn’t spend a dime, and my son now has a career at Newport News Shipbuilding,” she said.
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