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7:30

saragregory - Polls are closed! We'd like to welcome everyone to The Daily Tar Heel's election night chat.

7:31

Sarah Frier - You can view results as they come in here: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/Orange/11018/18193/en/summary.html

7:32

Sara Gregory -

Sarah, what's been your impressions of the day? What have your reporters seen while they've been out at the polls and manning the phones today?

7:33

Sarah Frier -

Looked today like voting wasn't very balanced amongst polling places. Some saw very little attendance, others saw more than 500 voters.

7:35

Sarah Frier -

Most all candidates were last-minute pushing -- a lot of them said they had been working late into the night last night to put up signs. But all they can do is watch the numbers come in.

7:35

Sarah Frier - Wow, my reporter tells me Mark Kleinschmidt won early voting by 6 percentage points.

7:37

Sara Gregory - Board of Elections results

7:39

Sara Gregory - The early numbers coming in show the Town Council rate in a virtual dead-heat.

7:40

Sara Gregory - Laurin Easthom and Penny Rich are leading the pack of seven now, although it's of course very early in the night.

7:51

Sara Gregory - And we're back... we've been having some technical issues with the Internet here in our offices. Think we've got it fixed now though.

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