Prez race,ballot questions key for big poll turnout

LYNN - City and town clerks urge voters swarming to the polls Tuesday to budget plenty of time for parking and, if necessary, standing in line.

Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Secretary of State William Galvin predicts more than 3 million of the 4.2 million registered voters statewide will cast ballots. Four million residents were registered to vote in 2004 and 2.9 million voted.

More than half (2,141,878) of Massachusetts’ registered voters are not enrolled as either a Democrat or Republican, although Democrats (1,559,464) outnumber Republicans (490,259) more than three to one.

More than 120,000 voters have already cast absentee ballots, out of about 200,000 distributed, he said. (Lynn Item - Full Story)