The Harvard University Police Department headquarters at 29 Garden St. is empty of civilians on most fall afternoons. Election Day--when police headquarters also serves as a polling station--is supposed to be different.
Yesterday it wasn't.
Voters came in ebbs and flows, but overall, the atmosphere was more suited for a library than election day.
Though this was one of many polling places in Cambridge, the numbers tell the same story elsewhere.
At first count last night, 18,549 had voted in the City Council elections. This was one of the lowest numbers in recent years.
In 1993, another year with few divisive issues, over 23,000 people voted.
While voter turn-out usually dips in an off-election year like these, longtime residents worry that Cambridge has lost its trademark activism.
The candidates are still proliferating, at least--24 City Council candidates were listed on the ballot yesterday, as opposed to 19 two years ago.
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