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Moderators take a final look at the citywide vote tally.
Mitt Romney swept New Haven’s Republican presidential primary — to the extent that there was a Republican presidential primary.
A grand total of 388 registered New Haven Republicans citywide voted in Tuesday’s GOP presidential primary. Romney picked up 216 of their votes; Ron Paul 73, Newt Gingrich 49 (he came within 2 votes of double digits in the Bella Vista tower), Rick Santorum (who’s no longer even running) 28, and “uncommitted” 19.
Despite the absence of many voters, the city, under state law, had to staff 32 polling stations, where workers spent most of the day … doing nothing but waiting for voters. A grand total of two voters walked into the Clarence Rogers polling station — meet both of them here. One voter showed up all day to the West Hills/ Microsociety School station. And absolutely no one voted in Ward 4 at Truman School.
At Ward 25, from left to right: James Gomes, Nancy Ahern (moderator), Mike Slattery, and Jenifer Blemings.
Even in usually busy Ward 25, at Edgewood School in Westville, a total of only 30 people, or an average of about two an hour, voted.
Click here for a spreadsheet giving the ward-by-ward breakdown of the New Haven vote.
Background on the primary here.
Romney won statewide, too, on .
Poll workers read off results at the 200 Orange St. vote-counting.