Behind the Headlines

By Danielle Portteus

A quick visit this morning to six precincts has the same results– voters are out in Bedford Township.
Many of the precincts have lines, though the wait seems to vary from about five minutes to about a half hour.
There was a line of people outside of Bedford Branch Library waiting to vote in the Precinct 4, but Precinct 9, just next door, didn’t have a wait. Cars were parked all over including the front lawn and the grass along side the library.

Precinct 5 at Bedford Assembly of God at the corner of Jackman and Temperance Rds. has about 20 cars in the parking lot.

Just up the road at Northwest Christian Church, about 50 cars were in the parking lot, though voters said they didn’t have to wait long to cast their ballots.

A co-worker of mine said she waited about 40 minutes this morning to vote. She said at about 7:20 a.m. at Northwest, there were a couple of hundred people were waiting in a line that stretched out the door and into the parking lot.

It’s going to be a busy down here in Bedford.