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AM Local Election Roundup

Let's use this post to report on how the vote is going at your precinct or anything else related to the elections in Kootenai County/North Idaho today:

  • 11:59 a.m. Mention: 11:30ish -- Seventh Day Adventist at Gov’t Way/Locust (51/53) was packed. People waiting for a spot to sit down to vote at. I think I was in the 70’s for precinct 53.
  • 11:53 a.m. Herb Huseland calls to say that he hasn't seen a turnout this big in his precinct since he moved to Bayview 17 years ago. He said voters were lined up "wall to wall."
  • 11:22 a.m. PrivateIdaho: Went to the Hauser fire house at 7:15, first time I have seen more than two or three people in line - there were at least 20 people waiting.
  • 11:13 a.m. OrangeTV: Buzzing buzzing buzzing at Trinity Lutheran (Precincts 54/55) -- fully packed, with a palpable excitement in the air. I had to wait five minutes after checking in to vote since there were no voting booths free when I walked in.
  • 11:08 a.m. Alison McArthur reports 202 people have voted so far at her Post Falls Senior Center.
  • 8 more reports from this morning below
  • 10:29 a.m. Jamie Lynn Morgan via Facebook: Nate's New York Pizza says: if you come in today with your I voted Sticker you will get $5 off any order over $25.00.
  • 10:25 a.m. Kerri Thoreson via Facebook: I was voter #137 at 10 am in precinct 24 (Calvary Lutheran, Post Falls)
  • 10:08 a.m. NIC Press Room: Students, faculty, employees and the public are invited to a farewell reception honoring Trustee Ron Vieselmeyer at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9 in the Edminster Student Union Building. Vieselmeyer was elected to a six-year term on the NIC Board of Trustees in 2006.
  • 9:49 a.m. Greg Lee: I was just at Woodland and the voters are turning out in drives there. The gals said it's been busy since they opened. They anticipate steady flow all day.
  • 8:50 a.m. Co-worker reports that poll at Chase & Prairie on Rathdrum Prairie was "a flippin' zoo" this morning, with at least 20 people in the precinct at 8 o'clock.
  • 8:43 a.m. Brother Frito Ray reports Coeur d'Alene Nazarene precinct "is packed."
  • 8:29 a.m. DFO: At 7:35 a.m., I was the 19th person to vote in the precinct at the Coeur d'Alene Assembly of God Church on 7th Street. Six or seven people were at the polls voting when I did. Steady.
  • 8:26 a.m. BillB: We are heading down to the fairgrounds in about an hour to cast our ballots. Wish I could cast one for my brother in law serving overseas who doesn’t get to vote again this cycle.


D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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