The polls at the Whiting Town Hall will open at 10 a.m. and will close with all other Vermont polling places at 7 p.m. That is an hour earlier than the other states of the New England region and two hours earlier than adjacent New York State.
Like many of Vermont's smaller towns (including the area towns of Shoreham, Sudbury, Ripton and Orwell) , balloting in Whiting is done by paper ballots counted manually. Larger towns and cities in the state have been moving toward Accu-Vote optical ballot readers in recent years.
A total of 461,070 Vermont residents are registered to vote in the general elections tomorrow. That is believed to be a record total for the state, though official counts have only been kept since 2006. The total is about 8,000 more than the 453,011 eligible to vote in the last Presidential election in 2008. Secretary of State Jim Condos, who is running for reelection, predicted a 70 percent turnout of Vermont's voters on Election Day. Vermont voters are not designated with political party affiliations.
Vermont is considered a solidly Democratic state in the Presidential election. In an Aug. 21 poll conducted by Castleton College, President Barack Obama outpolled Republican challenger Mitt Romney by a 62% to 25% margin. The state's Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin is also favored to win reelection. The Castleton College poll found him leading Republican challenger Randy Brock by a 60% to 26% margin.
According to Electionprojection.com, the State of Vermont is the second least conservative state in the United States, and voted almost 30% less Republican in the 2008 Presidential Elections than the national average. Vermont has been trending Democratic in Presidential Elections since 1992.
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