PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island elections officials say one polling place in Providence did not see a single voter during the midterm elections earlier this week.
Miguel Nunez, deputy director at the state elections board, told The Providence Journal that Precinct 2807 has just 11 registered voters. None of them showed up Tuesday.
The precinct is in College Hill, an affluent neighborhood near Brown University.
Those registered voters have shown up for elections before. Four people voted at the site in the 2016 presidential election, three for Hillary Clinton and one for Donald Trump. No one voted in the precinct in the 2014 midterm elections.
The precinct votes at the Cathedral of St. John, the former mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island that stopped holding services in 2012. It is now home to other organizations.
11 people? This seems like a gross misappropriation of resources more than anything.
180,000 people in Providence, and somehow a precinct has only 11 registered voters? What is going on here?
I waited in line for two hours during early voting here in Texas. And that was nothing compared to folks in many other parts of the US.
How the hell is this even possible?
Rhody here. Providence does a solid job with voting tech: large fill-in-the-bubble cards (paper trail!) and scanners. Things move quickly, even with voter ID law (tablet scanners setup). But…the races weren’t exactly competitive. The Dem primaries had the action. Lots of progressive wins, who now won in the general.
A friend lives near that district. Can’t believe in a city that size they’d have a district that small.