Despite rain, good voter turnout seen early in Ferguson election
Source: Los Angeles Times
Despite heavy morning rains, observers and candidates for Ferguson's City Council election Tuesday said that early turnout appears to be good as voters face one of the most important elections in city's recent memory.
Turnout "has been much heavier than normal," one candidate, former Ferguson Mayor Brian Fletcher -- who says he has run in about 10 elections -- told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview as he greeted voters outside a polling place.
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Fletcher's opponent in the 2nd Ward, Bob Hudgins, standing about 20 feet away at the First Presbyterian Church of Ferguson, told The Times, "It doesn't look so hot for me" at that polling station, especially compared with another polling station at a local elementary school.
"We’re seeing a lot of white folks saying they’re voting for my opponent," said Hudgins, who, like Fletcher, is white, but is a protester-turned-candidate who has the support of some of the city's most prominent black activists.
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