Secretary of State Connie Lawson today announced yesterday that 12 percent or 327,477 of the more than 2.6 million Hoosiers who were eligible to vote in the May 5 municipal primary election cast a ballot. Only voters who live in a city or town with an election this year or in a school corporation conducting a construction or tax levy referendum were eligible to vote. There were 20 counties in Indiana this year that did not have a primary election.
Starke County had the highest turnout in the state with 33 percent. Lawson said her office will conduct an unprecedented municipal election voter outreach campaign to remind Hoosiers to register to vote and to vote this fall.”
Bartholomew, Clinton and Huntington Counties used voter centers for the first time in this election.
