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...It’s a very, very good turnout,” Drugan said. “It’s not as high as a presidential, but it’s quite remarkable...
Total voter turnout surpassed 32,000 out of about 58,000 eligible voters, but the proportion was slightly lower in the five Harvard precincts—about 52 percent on average...
...precincts where most of the River Houses vote saw lower figures—30 percent at Quincy House and 37 percent at the Putnam Apartments. The Gund Hall polling place, where first-year and Adams House residents vote, saw 45 percent turnout. Those figures were slightly offset by 58 percent turnout at the Quad’s two Peabody School precincts...
...They weren’t that busy,” Drugan said of the places where Harvard students vote. “Those precincts that have the largest number of dorms and students are among those that have the lowest turnout...
Though some attributed the turnout to the cheap beer and free food, Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who helped organize the event, said many students came to celebrate the hard work they had put in the Massachusetts and New Hampshire elections...