Wednesday, June 6, 2012
12:29 AM
Turnout looking like roughly 56.5 percent
It looks like Wisconsin will top its best turnout for a guv's race in the past 50 years, but still fall short of the GAB's projected turnout of 60 percent to 65 percent.
With just 77 of the 3,424 precincts still out -- a little more than 2 percent of the vote -- 2,405,732 votes have been counted. Assuming the remaining precincts each have roughly the same nubmer of voters as those that have already been counted, the final number will likely be just short of 2.5 million votes in the guv's race.
That would be roughly 56.5 percent of Wisconsin's voting age population. The GAB had predicted between 2.6 million and 2.8 million people would vote today. Still, that turnout still tops the 52.4 percent that showed up in the 1962 guv race.
In 2008, 2,978,896 people voted in the presidential campaign, which was down from the 2,994,021 who cast ballots in the 2004 presidential race.
-- By JR Ross
Labels: 2012_recall_elections
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