Sad as it may seem, 40% voter turnout was high…
Granted, Lucas County did not meet the state average of 40% turnout on election day, we were at 36.96% but as this Columbus Dispatch article, Ohio’s voter turnout rebounds reports; 40% is up from 31% in 2005 with the highest turnout in what is considered an “odd year” election being 46 percent in 1997. Other parts of Ohio did experience higher turnout than we had here in Lucas County, but we were not the county with the lowest turnout:
Paulding and Shelby counties had the highest turnouts Tuesday: 57 percent and 56.6 percent, respectively. Athens County’s turnout was the lowest at 25.2 percent, followed by Franklin County’s at 30.7 percent.
What’s interesting is more people care about the presidential elections than the local elections that will realistically have a much larger impact on their daily lives. Seventy percent of Ohio’s voters turned out to vote in the last presidential election…
