By Ruth Brown
First, he found the Ada County’s mobile voting truck sitting outside of the Eagle Public Library. But its line was long. So, he said, he drove down to the county elections office on Benjamin Lane, where the parking lot was too full for him to park.
He drove back to Eagle — and waited an hour for his turn with a ballot.
“It’s a great concept,” Marino, of Boise, said about the mobile voting. “I don’t know if they were prepared for that many people though.”
Marino’s experience Wednesday isn’t necessarily typical for early voting this year.
But with one week of early voting done, and two weeks to go until Election Day, elections officials say it’s clear the high voter interest seen during the primaries is continuing this fall....
