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Today is a local primary election day on a day right after a three day holiday weekend Monday and so surely suppressing voter turnout.

The good news is that there are only two local races on today’s primary ballot.

One race is for the three at Large City Councillor seats and the other for the Ward 6 council seat.

In the at Large race, two incumbents, four newbies, a former at Large Councillor, and someone who previously lost a bid for a ward councillor seat are seeking to make the cut to be on November’s general election ballot. 

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While solid, if not also easy, cases can be made the two incumbents do not deserve to survive the primary and one other also should not, the Quarry expects two of the newcomers to not survive the cut from eight to six for the general election.

The Ward 6 primary race, however, poses intrigue.

For example, the incumbent is all but certain reliable vote for whatever Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch wants, many Ward 6 residents are not fans of the incumbent and arguably because his obsequiousness.  

Further, the incumbent and two challengers are working hard to mine votes from higher turnout Squantum voters and so perhaps will split the Squantum vote. 

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Conversely, the fourth candidate is an Asian who lives in North Quincy could survive the primary if he can see score the support of his historically low turnout Asian voters.

Net/net, while definitely going out on a limb, Quincy Quarry would not be surprised if the incumbent ends up primaried.

Needless to say, Quincy Quarry looks forward to seeing voting results Wednesday morning even if by far most local voters did not bother voting.