Iowa primary voters set turnout records in 2018

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/