Low Voter Turnout Early On

Voter turnout has been extremely low in the Annual Town Election taking place today in Natick.

The polls, which opened at 7 a.m., haven't had many people campaigning outside, and not much activity has been happening inside either.

At the Natick Community-Senior Center, for example, only 33 ballots had been cast as of 8 a.m. This included absentee ballots. Voters from precincts 7 and 9 vote at the Community-Senior Center.

At the Wilson Middle School, where precincts 4 and 5 vote, just 22 ballots had been casted as of 8 a.m.

While it's always expected that the local election will get less votes than the Presidential election, more people were expected to vote than have so far. Still people working the polls seemed confident that at some point in the afternoon it would pick up, even if it's only a little.