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Last Updated on Thursday, 7 August 2008 10:24 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 7 August 2008 10:24
From STLToday:
Missouri’s statewide voter turnout for Tuesday primaries was dismal. No debate about it.
Less than 19 percent of the state’s registered voters cast ballots, far less than the 31 percent that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan had predicted.
Tuesday’s statewide tally of 755,385 voters was almost half that cast in February’s presidential primary. Ditto for the August primary of four years ago, when close to 1.5 million showed up at the polls.
The biggest attraction in August 2004 was the proposed constitutional amendment to, in effect, ban same-sex marriage. Balloting on that issue, which passed handily, even edged out the overall vote for that year’s nasty Democratic primary for governor.