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Early vote turnout called a success

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DeseretNews.com moderator | 12:23 a.m. Nov. 2, 2008
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Erin Matthews | 11:16 a.m. Nov. 3, 2008
My husband and I voted last week at the Weber County Building... We came down the elevator with 3 couples... a handful of people were getting on when we got off. The line we stood in was nowhere near the size of the one we stood in on the primary. It seemed very efficient to me.

1 set of election people with the help of a computers to verify addresses were of course a change from the polling places of yore, but maybe the successes of early voting should be studied to mainstream into the elections of years to come.

Watching all of the news footage of early voters in other parts of the USA made me Thankful that I got to cast my early vote right here in the Bee Hive State!!!

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