I started my rounds of polling sites at mid-morning election day.  Here’s what I found.

Voting lines were long in some places early as people cast their ballots before heading to work.  As mid-morning approached, many of the long lines disappeared but a steady stream of voters continued at the polling places I visited through midday.

At one stop, I saw Fishers City Councilman Pete Peterson, a backer of Hamilton County Commissioner candidate Mark Heirbrandt, standing near the other Commissioner candidate Bill Smythe.  Witnesses told me there had been some good-natured ribbing at times between the two Republicans who are sometimes on the opposite ends of public issues.  But both joined me for a live Periscope video broadcast (sadly, the Internet connection was not strong there and the video picture wasn’t the best).  They both agreed how good it is to see so many people showing up at the polls for a primary election.

I saw a number of Advance HSE supporters, urging voters to vote yes on the school referendum.  I did see a few signs urging a no vote.  The sign has an Internet URL which features  a 2-page handout scanned and a link to a general Web page on school funding.  I would have been happy to talk with these people and question them on their views, but no one knows who is behind this. When you surface days before an election and do not disclose who you are, it’s hard to take the argument seriously.  Again, their opinion is respected, but hard to take seriously when its done in an anonymous fashion.