As Republicans in ten states across the United States go to polling stations for the biggest contest in this year's GOP primary contest -- Super Tuesday, voters in Virginia showed little enthusiasm and the turnout is low.

"This is the Super Tuesday!" said Caroline Mosley, an official at a polling station inside the Richmond Public Library at Virginia's capital city, gesturing towards empty hallways and volunteers with no voters to help.

With 5 million eligible voters in Virginia's open primary, the library polling station only received 16 voters from six in the morning till noon.

"You missed the crowd, there were three people voting here together," one volunteer said half-jokingly.

But officials at the library polling place can consider themselves lucky, as other stations fared far worse. The polling station at Fourth Baptist Church, located at a predominately African American neighborhood, had only 5 voters as of noon. Precinct Chief Wilbur Page said the precinct only received 35 voters in the day's voting.

Angela Desrochers, who moved to Richmond not long ago from Arlington, VA, believed the main reason behind the light turnout is the lack of choice for the voters.

There are only two candidates on Virginia's ballot -- former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum and former House speaker Newt Gingrich failed to qualify for the ballot, and the primary here is marked by light campaigning and no advertisements.

The fact that only two candidates compete for Virginia's 49 delegates puts the state at the center of Romney's dash in delegate count. If Romney wins big here, he could potentially grab most or even all delegates here, making it difficult for rival Santorum to catch up, as the GOP allocates delegates proportionally at this stage.

David Hunter, who voted in the afternoon in Washington's suburb of Arlington, VA, said the state's stringent rules on statewide ballot access requirements -- 10,000 signatures, with at least 400 from each of the 11 congressional districts, all to be collected by Virginia residents -- are testament to candidates' organizational strength.

"I think there's a political price you need to go through in order to get on the ballot in Virginia. If you don't have the organization, the skill, the fortitude to do so, then you don't get on the ballot. It's as simple as that," Hunter said.

Desrochers, who identified herself as a Republican, said she voted for Romney, and she was fine with having only two choices on the ballot.

"I feel like Mitt Romney has a great organization, and he's got great ideas, and I believe he really is the candidate who can take on Obama," she said after voting at the polling place in Main Street Station, where Governor Bob McDonnell also voted earlier in the day. But it only received 14 voters till noon.

Not all voters who actually turned out were happy with the lack of choice and the state of the race as well as the country. Sarah McLillard, a 31-year-old stay-at-home mom who identified herself as an independent, said she thought "people are pretty dispassionate about what's going on right now."

"People are still trying to figure out who's the right man for the job," she said.