Nov. 6 Election by the Numbers: Lowest Voter Turnout in at Least the Last 24 Years

Everything is counted and the numbers are in.

Perry County saw the lowest voter turnout in at least the last 24 years, according to the office of Perry County Clerk Kevin Kern.

The numbers--voting at the polls, early voting and absentee voting--show 9,668 ballots being cast in the election.

The records immediately available date back to 1988--24 years ago. That was the year that president Ronald Reagan was ending his maximum two terms and his vice-president George H.W. Bush ran against Democrat Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts.

Every other quadrennial election in the past 24 years had at least 10,000 ballots cast.

Some other fast facts:

Checks have already been written and sent to 137 judges in the election.

Five people worked to set up polling places across Perry County.

There were 13 other absentee ballot counters, poll runners, etc.

There were 23 optical scan voting machines and 23 touch screen voting machines in place for the election.