Schools
Low Turnout for Candidate-Packed Field
Polls remain open until 8 p.m. for voters to cast ballots in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools election.
A single vote could make a huge difference in deciding results of today's election for Plymouth-Canton Community Schools' board of education.
. Voting ends at 8 p.m. today.
But turnout appears to have been uniformly low, according to multiple sources.
Canton's Precinct 30, which in a national election might see more than 150 voters walk through the doors at Canton-Plymouth Mettetal Airport. But by late afternoon, poll workers assigned to that precinct were just hoping to see more than the nine voters who'd arrived since 7 a.m.
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Tina Shikany Lloyd told Canton Patch she was No. 68 at Precinct 37 (Dodson Elementary School).
"I know from the complaints that I heard the past year about school issues that more people care than that! Please vote!," she wrote on Canton Patch's Facebook page.
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Mary Rush Conner, noting that she was No. 81 at Precinct 3 () at 2:45, added, "that means that only 10.8 people an hour had voted! SAD!"
One candidate doing some last-minute campaigning outside of , estimated "about 200" voters had passed by.
One woman, hurrying into Miller Elementary for a parent-teacher conference, said she did not vote -- and wasn't planning to -- because she "did not know all the issues." She said her son is part of the district's talented and gifted education program, which earlier this year was among programs district officials considered reducing as part of overall buget cuts.
Others shared their voting experience Canton Patch's Facebook page, including the time of their vote and what number was assigned to their ballots:
- Janice Stoscup Martin: No. 97, Precinct 25, "at about 4 p.m."
- Krista Mabbott Piwko: No. 80, Precinct 42, at 4 p.m.
- Pat Williams: No. 8 at Precinct 8 at 7:08 a.m ("How cool is that!" he wrote.)
- Stephanie Phares Stoliker: Voter No. 1, Fiegel at 7 a.m.
- Mary Therese Weishaar-Wall, No. 43, Precinct 23, 11:45 a.m.
- Teresa Brooks Jackson: No. 62, Precinct 34 at about 2:30 today.
- Barbie Green: No. 51, Precinct 76
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