Election workers in Berlin said voting was steady but a little slower this year. Two precincts vote at St. Anne Church hall and extra precautions were put in place for Tuesday's election because of COVID-19. Over 20 percent of those voting chose to vote by absentee ballot. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)
Martha Laflamme campaigned for both her husband, State Rep. Larry Laflamme, and for Democratic Gubernatorial hopeful Andru Volinsky. While Volinsky lost the state-wide, he carried the city.(BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)
Election workers in Berlin said voting was steady but a little slower this year. Two precincts vote at St. Anne Church hall and extra precautions were put in place for Tuesday's election because of COVID-19. Over 20 percent of those voting chose to vote by absentee ballot. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)
Martha Laflamme campaigned for both her husband, State Rep. Larry Laflamme, and for Democratic Gubernatorial hopeful Andru Volinsky. While Volinsky lost the state-wide, he carried the city.(BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)
ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY — It was an election day like no other with social distancing and masks required. Clerks reported unusually high numbers of people voting by absentee ballot with fears of the COVID-19 changing voting patterns. In Berlin, 368 chose to vote by absentee ballot in the safety of their residences or 23 percent of those voting. In a normal election, City Clerk Shelli Fortin said the city would handle about 600 absentee ballots. The number was similar in Gorham where 125 out of 572 votes were by absentee ballot.
In Milan, the start of school was postponed a day to allow voting at the Milan Village School gymnasium.
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