http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_... Thelma Moore, an 80-year-old retired nurse from West Roxbury, said she voted for Coakley because "you vote the party when you get to this stage in life," said Moore, a registered Democrat.
"I'm surprised that it's so close," she said of the race. "But then again, in this day and age, I'm not surprised by anything that happens. Hopefully things will turn out alright."
At Boston City Hall, a steady of stream voters were casting ballots.
Bill Luke, a 62-year-old chief financial officer who lives downtown, voted for Coakley because he said he cares about health care and would "hate to see us lose the majority," in the US Senate.
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/201... SPRINGFIELD – Voter turnout here, as in a number of Western Massachusetts communities, is higher than expected.
As of about 12:30 p.m., more than 2,700 of Springfield’s 89,045 registered voters had cast their ballots in the special election to fill the Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy, said Gladys Oyola, acting election commissioner,
“It’s probably on par with the election in November,” Oyola said, referring to voter turnout.
Oyola, before Election Day, predicted that a very close race between Democrat Attorney General Martha M. Coakley and Republican state Sen. Scott P. Brown, could draw 20 percent of the vote. The third candidate is Libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy.
Judging from turnout so far, Oyola said turnout could reach as high as 25-30 percent.
