The Providence Journal is reporting that polling places are running low on "disaffiliated" forms. This could be very big news for those of us who can't wait another four hours to hear the final results.
Independents are allowed to vote in party primaries but as soon as they do they are automatically registered as being members of that party. Polling places in RI have disaffiliation forms so that after independents vote they can return to being registered independents. Silly bureaucracy.
The fact that polling places are running out of these forms probably means that more independents are voting than had been expected.
Convensional wisdom would suggest that high independent turnout benefits Chafee. On the other hand, the first city to start running low on forms today was Cranston - Laffey's home base.
So we'll see...
That just makes more questions arise.
