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Mostly Quiet at Manchester Polls

By Debra Daigle on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

Voter turnout in Manchester is at an all-time low on this Primary Day, according to that city's clerk.

NHPR Correspondent Debra Daigle reports.

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The Man with the Truck and the Marching Music

By Cheryl Senter on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

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.

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Dem Chair Sullivan on Primary Turnout

By Mark Bevis on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

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 season.....especially for Democratic candidates who on the whole face very few primary races.

As a result The Secretary of State is predicting some of the lowest voter turnout in recent history.

And the Chairwoman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Kathy Sullivan, tells NHPR's Mark Bevis, she fears the Secretary of State will be right.

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GOP Chair Semprini on Primary Turnout

By Mark Bevis on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

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.

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Low Primary Turnout in Portsmouth

By Roger Wood on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

Despite a wide open race for Executive Council in the Seacoast, voter turnout there has been very light.

NHPR Correspondent Roger Wood reports.

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Voters Pass on Primary

By Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

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.

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