Photo by Skip Lawrence Election judges set up equipment Monday evening at the William R. Talley Recreation Center in preparation for today’s Frederick city elections. Working together are Kay Gant, center foreground, and Lynda Weedon, right.
	On the web To find your polling location, visit www.cityoffrederick.com and click on "2009 City Election," or call the Board of Elections office at 301-600-8683. For full election coverage, including a detailed map of city polling places, visit www.fredericknewspost.com/cityelection2009.

Election workers also spent Monday at work, setting up polling locations and making sure city voters know where to go to cast their ballots in today's vote.

"Everything so far, knock on wood, is going smoothly," said Anne Leffler, president of the city's Board of Supervisors of Elections.

The six city voting locations will open at 7 a.m. and remain in operation until 8 p.m.

Leffler said judges will start preparing voting machines at 6 a.m.

Voters who go to their usual polling locations will find notices making them aware of the changes.

"We went out today and put up maps redirecting people," Leffler said.

The city had to find new polling locations for this year's election after the Frederick County Public School's denied the use of their buildings. The elections will not interrupt school sessions today.

"I don't anticipate a huge turnout, but I remain hopeful," Leffler said.

The last city primary election drew 6,202 of the total 24,164 registered Republicans and Democrats, or about 25 percent of city voters.

Many of the candidates for mayor and alderman spent part of the Monday at one final forum sponsored by the Frederick County Commission for Women.

Candidates spoke to many of the issues they have been addressing for the past few weeks, including how a looming budget crisis should be handled.

Officials are hoping for a glitch-free election today.

Ballots will be received at the offices of the Frederick County Board of Elections, then relayed to City Hall, where the public can view returns in the board room.

"As quickly as we process (returns) we're going to be sending them over to the city," said Stuart Harvey, county election director.

The county assisted the city by training poll judges and finding voting locations. The city acquired new responsibilities of handling candidate filings and campaign finance reports.

County elections Director Stuart Harvey said the city has done well with the extra work of educating the public about new polling places.

"I think they've done an excellent job getting people information," he said.