Local Voters Reflect on Past Elections
Election day was busy at Alps Road Elementary.
Many voters in precinct 7B made it to the Alps Road Elementary polling place Tuesday morning despite steady rain and temperatures in the 40s. The polls opened at 7. Three hours later, 307 of the 2,538 voters on the precinct’s rolls had cast ballots at the school gym. Because 899 residents of 7B had already voted early, this meant that 18 percent of the precinct’s voters were done by 10 a.m. Many reminisced about Election Days past. Sallie Duhling, a retired professor who taught at Gainesville State College for 28 years, said the 1952 presidential election was memorable because predictions about the outcome were calculated using a room-sized computer called UNIVAC. Duhling remembers being ten years old and listening to newscaster Walter …
