Precincts surrounding Ball State University handled some of thelargest crowds they've seen in years without any problems.
Compared to the 2000 election, 3,810 more people voted inDelaware county.
Many long time poll sitters said that the younger generationmade up a large portion of the voters in precincts near BallState.
Nada Staudtamuier, who has worked the polls for 40 years, lookeddown the six poll boxes in her precinct and saw people all underthe age of 25, something she said she has never seen before.
While lines weren't terribly long, precincts rarely saw a breakin action. Gary Addison, Election Inspector at precinct eight, saidthe slowest time was actually during lunch.
Workers at precinct 27 were greeted by about 15 people earlythis morning before the polls opened at 6 a.m. and continued to seea stream of people throughout the day.
In precinct 26, located in the L.A. Pittenger Student CenterBallroom, poll worker Sally Brumback said the crowd was steadythroughout the day and that students seemed to care a lot about theelection.��
"They have been real sincere," Brumback said. "It's been a bigdeal to them."
College students also showed up in the election in other ways.Junior Luke Harris was the Election Inspector at precinct27.�
"Its' been crazily busy, I can' count the number of collegestudents," Harris said. "There's been an amazing turnout of collegestudents, at least here."
Some people went to the wrong precinct and were re-routed, whilea few ended up registering with their home address, causing them toeither make a trip home, if possible, and vote there.�
Kevin Murphy was one student who had a fill out a provisionalballot. He originally registered to vote when he filled out theFAFSA form, but put the wrong address.
"I didn't realize at the time I filled my address out that I wasgoing to be in Muncie yet," Murphy said. "So they registered me forback home at my parents address."
Since Murphy couldn't make it home, he decided to fill out aprovisional ballot, which the county has three days to count ifthey determine Murphy's address is accurate.
The Office of Leadership and Service Learning sent an email toall students encouraging them to vote and offered students whovoted a chance to enter a drawing to win prizes. In the fall theoffice registered 850 students on campus, J.R. Jamison, theprograms director said.
Many students showed up mostly to vote for president, but manyfound themselves less prepared to vote on state and localraces.
"I'm not from around here so this really isn't my district,"Emily Nejad said. "I was a bad voter and I didn't really concernmyself with anything besides the presidential race."
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