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Election Day 2024 | New Hampshire Bulletin

When voter stickers ran out at Hopkinton Middle High School Tuesday night, Maeve Robbins appeared to save the day. Robbins, accompanied by her mother, Melissa Robbins, made the rounds handing out her own stickers which she brought from home.
“We have to do it for them,” Chelsea Fallisi said, pointing to her year-old daughter. Fallisi, of Concord, voted Tuesday at Christ the King Parish.
Election worker Amy Knepper helps to register a new voter just before noon at the Bow Community Center.
Turnout by mid-day Tuesday in Bow was described as “epic” and “unprecedented” by long-time residents and election workers. The line at the Bow Community Center touched all four sides of the building just before noon, which had been expected to be a less busy time at the polls. Multiple voters said that in the past, the longest they had waited at the polling site was fifteen minutes.
Beverly Nappen of Bow casts her vote just before noon on Tuesday at the Bow Community Center.
Governor-Elect Ayotte whisked off to the press scrum, just moments after the final words of her victory speech.
Maua Yakimu’s vote on Tuesday was her first vote cast in any election, ever. Yakimu, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and fled as a refugee to Uganda, immigrated to the United States in 2018. “We’re going to bring good change in the community,” she says of her vote.

Primary Day 2024 | New Hampshire Bulletin

Image 1: Jeffrey McKenna of Concord celebrates the day before his sixth-birthday by accompanying his parents to the polls. Jeffrey’s father, Sean McKenna, says it is his first time ever voting. Why this election? “She convinced me to,” he says, pointing at Jeffrey’s mother, Molly McKenna. As for Molly, she points to affordability and housing as the biggest issue. “It’s time for a change. We live three people in a one-bedroom apartment right now. There’s no way we can move anywhere, and our family is all here, but right now we’re being forced to choose between having a home and feeding our children.” 5:29pm.

Washington Bridge Oversight Hearing | Rhode Island Current