ABINGTON -- Republican Andy Harris received mixed reviews while greeting voters at Abingdon Elementary School in Harford County on Tuesday.

Harris, who said most of his volunteers were phone baking, stood alone in front of the Elementary School wearing an American flag tie and a smile. Harris greeted nearly everyone who passed, asking them to send him to Congress.

"Thanks for coming out to vote!" Harris said to a woman. "I'm Andy Harris. I'm gonna ask for your vote. Send me to Congress," he told another.

Most passing by simply nodded, smiled and kept walking. Some shook his hand. Others seemed reluctant to greet him.

After Harris asked one woman for her vote, she said "we'll see," and kept walking.

But Harris still seemed upbeat and playful, despite the mysterious reactions from voters.

"You get your sticker?"  Harris said to one toddler who was reluctant to give him a high five. "Oh yeah! Oh yeah! I heard ya go to 'Chick-fil-A' you'll get ice cream."

With just about eight hours until polls close, the state Senator from Cockeysville said he was mainly campaigning at polling places throughout the Western Shore, and would probably be doing some campaigning in Queen Anne's County before his election night party.

"These are where the folks know me," Harris told PolitickerMD.com.

Harris is currently running against Queen Anne's County state's Attorney Frank Kratovil (D) for Maryland's 1st Congressional District seat in what most observers are calling a neck-and-neck race.

Aside from greeting voters, Harris did a quick interview with WBAL-TV, and made small talk with the polling places chief judge, Paul Woodell.

"Way higher than I've ever seen," Woodell told Harris while discussing turnout. He said three voting machines weren't booting in the morning, but latter started working.

"They say that they're good and all that. I worry about 'em," Harris said. "That stuff all came to my committee with testimony and all of it and I tell ya... There's just something about having that [paper] ballot ... call me old fashioned."

Woodell began asking Harris about the size of the district and the logistics of his day.

"It's amazing what gerrymandering will do isn't it?" Harris said. "It's bad. We really have to go to a non-partisan commission ... it's the only fair way to do it."

Harris, who voted this morning, said he voted against the Slots Referendum and argued it doesn't belong in the state's constitution.

Before heading into the voting booth this morning, Kratovil suggested he would be voting for it.