More voters are at polling places today than any of the year’s
other two elections – June 8’s primary and Aug. 17’s special
election. It’s a nice, more lively change of pace, local election
workers say.
Morgan Hill – More voters are at polling places today than any of the year’s other two elections – June 8’s primary and Aug. 17’s special election. It’s a nice, more lively change of pace, local election workers say.
“It’s been very steady this morning,” Fran Scalzo said, who today was working at P.A. Walsh, has worked all three elections this year and has been an election worker on and off for 17 years.
“This is definitely the most active of the others. A few have dropped their ballots off but more it seems are stopping in to vote at the booth. I’m very pleased with the turnout.”
While the new governance for Morgan Hill’s City Council, Morgan Hill Unified’s school board of trustees and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors are being decided today, it was Proposition 19, the measure that would legalize and tax marijuana in California, and the statewide elections that most residents had an opinion about.
“We need a change. We’re headed in the wrong direction and I’m not happy with the current administration,” Karen Heacock said. A new resident in Morgan Hill, Heacock said she’s satisfied with Morgan Hill and hasn’t yet researched the issues the town is facing. “So far it’s been great,” Heacock said.
Ralph and Gina Wilson cast their votes at El Toro Elementary this morning. They said it was Prop 19 that they were sure to vote against.
“We have three teenagers so that one is really important to us that it doesn’t pass,” Ralph Wilson said. The couple has three children at Sobrato High School and one son at Charter School of Morgan Hill.
Another voter encouraged people to say no to Prop 19.
“I don’t people high on dope behind the wheel of a car,” George Kreitem said, a 10-year Morgan Hill resident.
Twenty-year-old Daniel Tapia, a lifelong Morgan Hill resident, also said Prop 19 got him out to the polling place today, though his vote went the other way.
“I know some people who are sick and actually need it. And then there are some who are just doing it for their own gain. But it mostly is going to benefit those who need it the most,” Tapia said.
The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters will post the first round of results to its website sccvote.org at 8 p.m. and will update them throughout the evening.
An estimated 467,000 voters are expected to participate in this mid-term election, including about 117,000 walk-in voters at polling precincts. Due to the high voter turnout and the length of the ballots – about 70 percent will have sets of three ballot cards – all precinct results may not be tallied until after 6 a.m., Wednesday morning, according to the registrar.
Voting places in Morgan Hill will stay open until 8 p.m. and the Morgan Hill Times will have the latest results as they become available tonight and Wednesday morning.
MORGAN HILL ELECTION 2010
Mayor of Morgan Hill (majority vote wins)
Art College, former city treasurer
Marby Lee, current councilwoman
Steve Tate, incumbent
Morgan Hill City Council (top two vote-getters win)
Joseph Carillo
Michael Castelan
Richard Constantine
Ken Galloway
Lee Schmidt
Rick Moreno
David Mounteer
Gordon Siebert
Morgan Hill Unified school board of trustees (top four vote-getters win)
Armando Benavides
Bob Benevento
Kirsten Francis Carr
Brenda Cayme
Bart Fisher
Don Moody
Shelle Thomas
Ron Woolf
