As of 3 p.m. only 291 registered Democrats and Republican voters had cast a ballot in the primaries at Danbury High School, one of the largest of the city’s seven polling places.
“It’s been very slow,” Regina Ofiero, a moderator, said as she sat inside a cavernous school gym filled with empty ballot boxes. “It’s been like this all day.”
Ofiero credited the low turn out to the gloomy weather but couldn’t be certain.
“It’s a primary, maybe that’s why,” she said.
Pete Andersen showed up to vote at the high school but credited the low turn out to a lack of publicity about the local and state races.
“I’m really pretty informed when it comes to politics, but I didn’t know there was a primary until I got something in the mail from one of the candidates,” Andersen said.