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Douglas County Election Commissioner Says Voter Turnout Just as Predicted

Douglas County Election Commissioner Dave Phipps said voter turnout was just about what his office predicted.

He said with the numbers they have now, voter turnout stands at 40.5%. 

Phipps said by the time his office counts the rest of the early voting ballots and provisional ballots, voter turnout will be somewhere between 45-46%, about the number predicted.  

"We had some normal ‘where do I vote?’ sorts of problems.  We had a couple of issues that we got straightened out at a polling place right away in the morning.  But not a lot of voters were too inconvenienced by anything so a pretty typical Election Day from our point of view.”

For the 2010 midterm election, turnout was 40%. Eight years ago, it was 49%. Phipps says top ticket races drew more interest in the midterm election.