Danbury turn out trails 2008, so far

While voting officials have reported a heavy turnout throughout Danbury this morning, the numbers continue to trail the turn out from the historic 2008 presidential election.

Mary Ann Doran, the Republican Registrar of Voters, said about 42 percent, or 14,887 voters turned out in the city as of 2 p.m., that trails 2008 when about 47 percent of voters had visited the polls as of 2 p.m.

“It’s not as busy as it was four years ago,” she said. “We’ve been trailing the 2008 election by about four or five percentage points for most of the day.”

Democratic Town Committee chairman Joseph DaSilva Jr. speculated that more people hit the polls early four years ago out of fears that voters would be greeted by long lines at the polls.

“I suspect we’ll probably have about the same turn out that we did four years ago,” he said.

Dirk Perrefort