As the sky was darkening in the late afternoon on election day, cars moved into and out of the few available spaces in the parking lot at the fire station training facility at the corner of Highway 86 and Weaver Dairy Road Extension. This was the polling place for the Weaver Dairy Precinct in Chapel Hill.

“It’s been very steady all day . . . We have a rather small building, and it is now crammed to capacity,” said Deborah Shaw, chief judge of the Weaver Dairy Precinct. She said there are about 3,000 registered voters in the precinct, and about 44 percent of those had cast ballots when she checked late Tuesday afternoon. That includes absentee and early voters, plus 800 voters on Election Day.

WCHL’s Jagmeet Mac talked to some of those voters.

County Commissioner candidate Democrat Mia Burroughs said she came for a special reason. “I just got my daughter to bring her to vote for her very first time, in her first election,” said Burroughs.

Two people were handing out information outside. Sridhar Rajappan was campaigning for the Republican Party. “People really need a change,” said Rajappan. “And that’s why we’re asking for support for Republican candidates.

Mary Mandell was campaigning for the Democratic Party. “For me the most important race is the race for Senate,” Mandell said. She expressed her strong support for Kay Hagan.

Several voters listed the US Senate race as the most important one in the election.

Shaw said no one had trouble voting at the Weaver Dairy precinct, and no one reported difficulties.