Kal Silverberg is the Republican chair for Precinct No. 4130. He was able to recruit only three poll workers, less than during previous years.
Ahead of Election Day, he said, he couldn’t predict how many folks would turn out, but he’s never had a line out the door before.
Jherre Williams helps a voter at the Morningside Elementary School, 2601 Evans Ave., voting location. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Campaign advocates hold signs and talk to voters at the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, 4901 Briarhaven Road, voting location on March 1. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A sign shows voters where to go at the W.P. McLean 6th Grade Center, 3201 S. Hills Ave. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Unused voting machines sit inside the W. P. McLean 6th Grade Center, 3201 S. Hills Ave. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A voting machine sits inside the W. P. McLean 6th Grade Center, 3201 S. Hills Ave. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A Tarrant County Election Administration cabinet sits on the Republican voters side at W. P. McLean 6th Grade Center, 3201 S. Hills Ave. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Voters enter the W. P. McLean 6th Grade Center, 3201 S. Hills Ave., poll location. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A sign lets voters know about the curbside voting option at the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, 4901 Briarhaven Road, voting location. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Poll workers sit outside the Fort Worth Event Center, 2100 Evans Ave., voting location on March 1. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A polling location was open at Morningside Elementary School, 2601 Evans Ave., on March 1. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A Hart Voting System sits inside the Morningside Elementary School, 2601 Evans Ave., voting location. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Voters wait in line to vote at the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, 4901 Briarhaven Road, voting location. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Voters walk into the polling location at the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, 4901 Briarhaven Road. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)
“We have been slammed like I’ve never seen before,” Silverberg said. “We have 40-50 people in like right now, and we’re going to be here well after 7 p.m.”
On Election Day, he and his workers saw a line of voters at the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, 4901 Briarhaven Road, voting location.
Elsewhere in Fort Worth, in Morningside, Jherre Williams and her coworkers saw fewer than 15 voters before noon at Morningside Elementary School, 2601 Evans Ave.
“They’ll start to trickle in,” Williams said.
A few blocks down the road at the Fort Worth Event Center, 2100 Evans Ave., poll workers Marion Thomas, Vernon Rogers and Marcus Manuel sat outside waiting for voters. They had only one person show up to vote, Thomas said.
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