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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.

7:53

Sarah Frier - With 13 of 21 precincts reporting Czajkowski vs. Kleinschmidt is much closer

7:59	[Comment From bda] With 18 of 21 precincts reporting, Kleinschmidt has pulled ahead by 440 votes.

8:00

Andrew Dunn -

bda is DTH reporter Brian Austin, by the way.

8:05

sarahcryst - Town Council race still extremely close, but DeHart is lagging a bit and Raymond is a distant eighth place http://bit.ly/2Y6Zwf #ocvotes

8:05

Andrew Dunn - Taking you around the state, Democrat Anthony Fox leads Republican John Lassiter in the Charlotte mayoral race, though only early and absentee votes have been totaled.

8:05

sarahcryst - Chapel Hill school board: Brownstein has a big lead with 27.5% of the vote; otherwise it's another close race, 24/29 precincts #ocvotes

8:06

Sara Gregory - And sarahcryst is DTH reporter Sarah Morayati

8:10

Sarah Frier - now everyone at Chilton party is watching Kleinschmidt numbers, DTH reporter Emily Stephenson said

8:12

Sara Gregory -

Sarah, what's turnout looking like? Is it as low as has been predicted?

8:15	[Comment From Chris Clayman] I was personally amazed at the low turnout at early voting...only about 1,500 people. What do you all think?

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