Times Observer photo by Lorri Drumm Signs designated polling places for voters on Tuesday at Warren West and Central precincts. Mid-afternoon brought a lull to some locations but all reported a steady flow all day.

Election Day found some poll workers inventing new words to describe how their Tuesday had gone. “Bizz — brief pause — eee,” several workers at the Youngsville Volunteer Fire Department said in unison.

Mid afternoon actually brought a lull to a steady flow of voters that were lined up at 7 a.m. in Youngsville, according to the group of workers. The flow of people coming to cast their votes had been constant until a break at about 3 p.m.

A similar scenario played out at other voting precincts also. “There was a line of people waiting to vote when we opened,” said Karen Eggleston, judge of elections for the Warren West precinct at St. Joseph School.

“Turnout has been very good for this precinct,” Eggleston said. Again the magic word was “busy.”

“Busy” didn’t come close to describing the day that Lisa Rivett, director of elections at the Warren County Courthouse was having on Tuesday.

Rivett, who donned a paper crown that designated her as the “Queen of Multi-tasking”, had several phones in her hand at one time Tuesday.

Rivett’s day started well before the sun came up and promised to last well after dark.

Voters were also lined up prior to 7 a.m. at the Warren Central precinct. Despite the steady stream of people and endless telephone calls, Rivett said things were going pretty smoothly.

“We’ve had some mechanical issues at several locations,” she said. “There’s also been a lot of people calling to find out where they vote.”

Mid-afternoon brought a break to the steady stream of voters at the courthouse but not at the Warren North, East and Southeast precinct at the Holy Redeemer Center.

The parking lot was fairly full and voters were steadily coming and going. One voter admitted he had just come from the courthouse and wished he could have voted there because there was no line.

Poll workers at the center pointed out a person in charge of the proceedings at that location. When asked for comment on the tone of the day the word “busy” was not mentioned. Instead the response was that nobody at the polls is allowed to talk to the press.