November 06, 2018
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People outside the Bache-Martin School polling location in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia early Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2018.
Turnout has so far been uncharacteristic for a midterm election: There are a lot of voters.
At the Engine 13 polling location in North Philadelphia, a longtime voter and volunteer said the poll usually gets about 100 people total — but by 9 a.m. on Tuesday more than 120 people had already cast their votes, with more than 75 people still in line.
According to Sixty-Six Wards turnout tracker, which is tracking individual voter numbers from Philadelphians across every division, an estimated 246,572 people had voted as of 12:35 p.m. According to the same tracker in 2014, turnout only reached 381,503 total in Philadelphia.
On Pennsylvania, polls close at 8 p.m.
Here's a look at a few polling locations across the city.
Election volunteers were a reporting much higher than usual turn out at the James L. Wright Recreation Center in Mantua on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 6, 2018.
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People purchase baked goods outside the Bache-Martin School in Fairmount after casting their vote early Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2018.
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Voters wait in long lines early Tuesday morning at the Engine 13 fire station in the Francisville neighborhood of North Philadelphia.
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By 8 a.m. Tuesday, a line of more than 50 voters just an hour earlier had cleared at the 2601 Parkway Condominiums on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Dozens of students voted in the midterm elections during the noon hour Tuesday at the University of Pennsylvania's Houston Hall
At the University of Pennsylvania's Vance Hall, volunteers reported higher-than predicted voter turnout.
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