11/04/10 Election Wrap Up: Approximately 20,000 residents voted in Greenwich on Tuesday

Tuesday's election featured four residents -- Linda McMahon, Richard Blumenthal, Tom Foley and Jim Himes.

About 58 percent of the town's eligible voters cast a ballot, a good five percentage points lower than the last midterm election in 2006.

The 2008 election, in which Barack Obama was elected, saw an historically high turnout rate in 80 percent range.

All Republicans in town won re-election to the state general assembly.

L. Scott Frantz, defeated Nancy Barton in the state Senate's 36th District while Livvy Floren, R-149th District, and Alfred Camillo, R-151st District. Lile Gibbons, R-150th District, was unopposed.

There were no ballot problems in Greenwich, but there were problems in Bridgeport.

Greenwich ordered 30,000 ballots, the ballots cost 50 cents each and are ordered from New Britain-based Adkins Printing Company.

In Bridgeport, only 21,000 ballots were ordered for nearly 70,000 registered voters.

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