Early voting in Greenwich so popular the wait time prevented Gov. Ned Lamont from casting a ballot

GREENWICH — Early voting opened at 10 a.m. Monday and by 10:30 a.m., the first floor of Town Hall was swamped with voters.

The line of eager participants stretched from the entrance to the Town Hall meeting room, where votes were cast, toward the tax collector's office, spanning most of the length of the whole first floor.

Gov. Ned Lamont, a Greenwich resident, arrived at 10:55 a.m., exclaimed when he saw the roughly 70 people already in line and remarked that early voting is popular already. Needing to be in Fairfield for a noon event, he departed about 10 minutes later, without casting a ballot, after walking its length and greeting people.

“It was a 40-minute wait so I couldn’t do both these things," Lamont said later at the Fairfield DMV. "I’ll get back there. It will calm down I think in a couple of days. But it’s a good thing! Everybody was lined up, they were curling around, it was like getting into Studio 54 in the 70’s."




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