Farmville’s Polling Locations
Farmville residents came and went from polling locations on Tuesday to submit their ballots for the Virginia primaries.
Out of three Farmville precincts, more than 1,100 voters showed up to vote for the candidate of their choice.
The polling location at the Farmville Fire Department had received around 492 voters around 5:30 p.m. Pauly Hollingsworth, the Chief Officer of the precinct, said that the number of students voting had increased for primaries since past years.
Although the number of voting students has increased, Hollingsworth said that a number of students had to be turned away because they weren’t registered in that precinct. Hollingsworth stated that students had showed up with different issues, such as being unaware that they had to vote in their own precinct.
Hollingsworth said that another issue was that students who registered to vote during events on Longwood’s campus, had registered with their home address rather than their campus address. This meant that they could not vote in the Farmville precincts unless their home address was within those precincts.
The polling locations at the Prince Edward Elks Lodge and the Farmville Bus Station came across the same issues with students, as well also seeing an increase in student voters for the primaries.
The Prince Edward Elks Lodge had received 181 voters around 5:00 p.m. The poll workers there estimated there was around 30 students out of the 181 voters who had voted so far.
The Farmville Bus Station had received 469 voters around 6:00 p.m.
The county had an estimate of 62 poll workers for the county. At each of the polling locations mentioned above, there were about five or six poll workers. These workers are stationed at the polling locations from 5:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. According to poll workers at the Prince Edward Elk Lodge, they are not allowed to leave at any time.
According to Hollingsworth, poll workers are paid, but are given under minimum wage.
Hollingsworth stated that dual primaries make the polling process a little more difficult and complicated for poll workers. In order to submit a ballot, voters needed to tell poll workers whether they were voting in the Republican or the Democratic caucus. Hollingsworth said that this had created some conflict and that some citizens left before voting because they didn’t want to say which caucus they were voting in.
The Results
Donald Trump won the Republican caucus in Virginia, while Hillary Clinton took the win for the Democratic caucus.
According to The New York Times, in Prince Edward County, Clinton received 1,366 votes and 75.8 percent of the votes, whereas Bernie Sanders received 420 votes and 23.3 votes. Clinton won Virginia overall with a total of 504,362 votes and 64.3 percent of the votes.
Trump received 853 votes and 41.4 percent of the votes within Prince Edward County, according to The New York Times, while Marco Rubio won 617 votes and 30 percent of the votes.
Ted Cruz received 326 votes and 15.8 percent of the votes, while John Kasich received 124 votes and six percent of the votes. Ben Carson did not receive any votes within Prince Edward County.
Trump won Virginia overall with 356,037 votes and 34.7 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.
The overall
According to USA Today, Trump has won a significant number of delegates and is in the lead of the Republican Party with 258 delegates, 1,237 delegates are needed for the nomination. Cruz runs in second with 110 delegates. Clinton holds a lead over Sanders with 508 delegates, while Sanders has won 295 delegates, 2,382 delegates are needed for the nomination.
Many news sources have predicted that Trump and Clinton will win the party nominations, but others have stated that Cruz or Rubio, and Sanders could pull through for the nominations.
