Voters in Chestnuthill Township were waiting their turn to vote Tuesday morning when the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson stopped by.

Nancy Parks, aide to State Rep. Jack Rader, said she was notified in the morning that he would be stopping by the West End Fire House, but wasn’t sure it would happen.

Johnson came about 11 a.m. with Republican congressional candidate Rob Bresnahan Jr.

Parks said he gave a brief speech and then talked to people individually and posed for photos.

Two precincts vote at the fire house on Route 715 in Brodheadsville. Precinct 1 is downstairs and had a line of people throughout the day. When the polls opened at 7 a.m., people were lined up down toward the Wawa parking lot. By 2 p.m. 1,400 people had voted.

In Precinct 4, upstairs in the fire hall, nearly 800 people had voted by 2 p.m.

Poll workers reported a steady stream of people throughout the morning.

Parks, along with volunteers Deb Modica and Teri VanBritsom Martin spent the day helping people to determine which precinct they were supposed to be voting in.

Some were first time voters; others hadn’t voted in awhile and didn’t remember.

VanBritsom also brought a walker and wheelchair. She and her son Daniel were helping people who couldn’t stand in line long.

“I am not affiliated with a campaign,” VanBritsom Martin said. She said she wanted to be sure the polls were accessible for people and encouraged friends at other polling sites to do the same.

Hope Arezzi of Effort was waiting in line with her two granddaughters, Amelia Dunnigan, 7, and Paige Dunnigan, 8. It was her second time coming to the polls Tuesday.

“It was too nice of a day to stand in line,” she said. Instead they went to the park and returned when the line went down.

Olivia Leiberman of Brodheadsville was voting for the first time. “Last time I could vote I was in Guam with my husband who was in the military,” she said.

What brought her out today? “I felt like I should,” Leiberman said. “I have two young kids. It’s important.”