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March 4, 2008

Primary: So far, Cicilline finding city polls busy

PROVIDENCE -- Mayor David N. Cicilline has been touring city polling places today, as the state holds its presidential primary.

Wearing an "I Voted" sticker on his suit jacket's lapel, the mayor was stopping for a light lunch to go at the Starbucks in the Providence Biltmore hotel.

He'd already been at some polls on the East Side and at Carroll Towers on Smith Street. He described all of them as "busy."

Cicilline said there was a line at his own polling place, Church of the Redeemer on Hope Street, when he went to vote at 8:15 this morning.

Next stop for the mayor were polls on the city's South Side.

Noting that more than 43,000 of new voters in Rhode Island had signed up this year, and what is looking like a tremendous turnout for a presidential primary, the mayor had one word for it:

"Unbelievable."

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