From Deseret News archives:
Election Day This may take awhile
Long lines at polls expected despite early voting success
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Both Herbert's office and many county clerks pushed early voting, including a $1 million advertising campaign paid for by the state that was memorable for Herbert's decorative pajamas in one ad. A big motivation for that push was concern that the new electronic voting machines would slow voters and cause longer lines a concern borne out during early voting, when voters were taking almost twice as long to cast their ballots.
The turnout comes close to estimates from a Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, in which 28 percent of the surveyed voters either planned to or had voted early. The survey of 1,233 voters, conducted between Oct. 26 and Nov. 2, had a margin of error of 2.8 percent.
In an interview Monday, Jones said those numbers can be misleading, since people often plan to vote and never actually do. But the early-voting numbers were significant enough that Jones' team has been conducting exit interviews in Salt Lake County with voters who cast their ballots during the preceding two weeks.
"Their vote counts just as much as a vote cast on Tuesday," he said.
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