Polling sites see steady stream of voters

There was a line of people outside Cloquet City Hall at 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, waiting for the polls to open.

"There was a line again at 10 a.m. that kind of surprised us, and now there's another one," said head judge John Cavanaugh at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. "We've been busy all day."

By 4:30 p.m. they'd seen 675 voters come through, and Cavanaugh was expecting between 800-850 by the end of the day.

The city hall was also busier than usual with people registering to vote, Cavanaugh said, some of them new voters, along with others who had moved or changed their name. Two volunteers worked to...