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While turnout has been low, some voters have taken today's election as seriously as in years past.

One of those is Albert Dimmock.

He loaded up his blue and white pick-up truck with election posters and drove around Derry blasting music to rally voters to the polls.

He's been doing it for so long, he's almost a fixture in that town.

Today is Primary Election Day.....the day when political parties pick who's going to be their candidates in November.

By most accounts, this has been a quiet primary season.

The Secretary of State predicts some of the lowest voter turnout in recent history.....maybe as low as 14 percent.

And the Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, Wayne Semprini, tells NHPR's Mark Bevis the Secretary of State is probably going to be right.

Is there an election today?

That's how many people responded when New Hampshire Public Radio reporter Dan Gorenstein asked if they were voting in today's primary.

Apart from a few pockets of voter activity, the Secretary of State is predicting a historically low turnout.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in a decision handed down recently, has given the legislature until next July to come up with a legally valid definition of an "adequate education" or face a short list of options, including having the court appoint somebody to define it for them. We'll look at what this strongly worded decision means for the state and its longstanding fight over the best way to fund education. Laura's guests are Kevin Landrigan, State House Reporter for the Nashua Telegraph, Charlie Arlinghaus, President of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy Study, and Scott Johnson, Professor of Law at Concord University School of Law, Visiting Professor of Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center and Project Director with the New Hampshire Citizens Voice Project. Johnson was also one of the attorneys who filed the original Claremont lawsuit.