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Election Day Generally Goes Smoothly For Plant City

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By GEORGE H. NEWMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

8:00 p.m. Plant City A small survey of polling places in the Plant City area showed the precincts were line-free after 6 p.m., with some seeing only a trickle of voters coming in after 5 p.m.

Precincts 754, 751 and 750, all on Mud Lake Road, bordering Walden Lake and the southwest side of the city, saw most of the voting in the early morning hours and then a steady flow of voters, but no long lines or backups at the polls.

Precinct 750, at the Church of the Nazarene, had a scanner machine fail at about 7:15 this morning. Voters waited about 40 minutes as poll employees waited for the machine to be fixed. Poll clerk Gloria Cozart said that other than the early morning glitch there was no other problems at the poll.

"Some of the ballots will have to be counted by hand after the polls close," Cowart said.

Precinct 753, on the east side of the city, had brisk voting until about 5 p.m., said poll deputy Joseph Jalbert.

Unofficial numbers of votes cast at these precincts during Election Day are 470 votes at 754; 881 at 751; 693 at 753 and no report from 750.

During early voting at City Hall from Oct 20 to 31, 8,818 votes were cast. That is an average of just over 800 voters each day. Comparing that with 2,044 at three of the 11 or more precincts in the greater Plant City area, the number of votes cast has been substantial.

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