20 percent turnout predicted in spring election
One in five Wisconsinites who are old enough to vote could head to the polls today for the spring election.
The Government Accountability Board bases its prediction on the turnout from similar elections over the past decade.
Last year's Supreme Court contest between Justice Annette Ziegler and Linda Clifford drew 19 and a-half percent of the voting age population. The last contested Supreme Court race before that generated an identical percentage of voters.
This year's Supreme Court race between Justice Louis Butler and circuit Judge Mike Gableman has been marked by a barrage of negative TV ads, mostly by outside interest groups.
Heavy snow in northern Wisconsin could also impact voter turnout today. Twenty percent of Wisconsin's eligible voters would be about 875,000 residents.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Apr 1, 2008 at 12:15 p.m.
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SHAMEFUL! Democracy only thrives when the electorate are participants, not simply observers. Especially women who neglect what the suffragettes suffered in prisons being force fed for OUR right to vote today. Not so long ago, Susan B. Anthony rightly noted: "Suffrage is the pivotal right." Democracy doesn't fail when outside forces attack. Democracy fails when the electorate doesn't get involved; doesn't recruit, meet, talk to, learn about and support good candidates; doesn't ACTIVELY participate; doesn't vote and, because of this, doesn't trust their leadership's intentions. Come on, South Central Wisconsin! Remember..."Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote." -- William E. Simon....Get to your polling place TODAY!
Apr 1, 2008 at 9:54 a.m.
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I am sure many of those 80% are the ones who write in here to gripe and complain about any thing or person that moves.
Apr 1, 2008 at 9:35 a.m.
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if you don't vote, don't gripe on here!!
Patriotic people do their duty with love in their hearts & pride in themselves.
20% turnout is atrocious for a so-called "free" country.
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