It's Election Day and residents across Western Massachusetts are stepping out to the polls on this windy Tuesday to cast their votes.
Yvelisse Gonzalez sat outside a polling location in Springfield Tuesday morning holding a sign for her preferred city council candidate. The city has several ward city council and school committee races as well as an at-large city council race.
Gonzalez says she cast her vote early last week so she could be out at the polls today.
"I voted early so that I could be sure my vote counted and you need to make sure your vote counts too," she said in Spanish, urging voters to come to the polls.
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