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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 5, 2018, 08:34 PM Jun 2018

Iowa primary voters set turnout records in 2018 [View all]

Multiple Iowa voter turnout records were announced as bested Tuesday even before polls had closed.

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate reported at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday that 50,610 absentee ballots had been received, surpassing the previous state primary election record of 44,740 in 2014.

A few minutes after Pate’s report, Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert said his county primary turnout had already bested its overall turnout record set in 1994 and a Democratic record set in 2006.

Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald said at around the same time that he believed the county was in line to break a primary vote total record set in 2010 when around 42,000 people voted in the primary.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/06/05/iowa-primary-2018-election-results-voter-turnout-breaks-records/675680002/

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Yippee! Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #1
Polk County has a highly motivating county supervisor contest SharonClark Jun 2018 #2
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