According to Swift’s spokesperson, Sarah Magazine, extra security precautions were being taken to assure safety at the polls.
Even after the tragedy, voters did show up at the polls to cast their ballots in the special election.
“You’ve got to remember that one of the frontrunners comes from this neighborhood,” said a local official at one South Boston polling station, explaining why voters continued to turn out and vote.
The official--who declined to be named--named the pride South Boston holds in its lone local candidate, Lynch, as the reason why people came out to vote.
“Obviously today’s tragedy is a lot more important than what’s happening in this congressional race and a lot of voters understandably were focussed on that and not the election,” said Jacques’s spokesperson, Angus McQuilken.
--Staff writer Lauren R. Dorgan can be reached at dorgan@fas.harvard.edu.