Politics & Government

Slim Chance of Evening Voter Rush in Falls Church

Voters in the 'Little City' prefer voting in the morning.

The polls in the City of Falls Church hadn’t seen many voters before 1 p.m. Tuesday and a late rush to the polls is unlikely.

With only two of the four presidential candidates appearing on the Virginia ballots, David Bjerke said as of recent years voters in the “Little City” hit the polls hard in the morning. He said more than 8,800 people in the city are registered voters.

“Just having the two candidates and a single party involved in an area that usually votes Democrat has affected the voter turnout, said Bjerke, City of Falls Church General Registrar.

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Around 12:30 p.m., just over 200 of the city’s registered voters had visited the five polling precincts. In 2008 when both the Democratic and Republican parties held primaries, more than 3,600 city residents voted. More than 2,900 of those votes went to Democratic candidates. Both parties held primaries in 1988 as well with the Democrats earning more than 1,000 of the city’s 1,800 votes.

Only having to decide between two candidates has made things easy for Victor Gerrity.

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Gerrity, 22, of the City of Falls Church said he is new to politics and having a lot of candidates to choose from in the primary would call for more research. He said he voted for Ron Paul because he doesn’t have much in common with Mitt Romney. He said he hadn’t researched Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum at all.

“I’m a pretty busy dude,” he said. “With the two candidates, I heard what they had to say and went and researched them.”


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