Record Turnout in Alabama
Yesterday was a great day for Alabama. Moving our primary up on the calendar did exactly what everyone had hoped, get people excited to come out to the polls, and boy did they come…
Preliminary results show that Alabama’s voter turnout on Super Tuesday — a day when 24 states held their primaries — was the highest in the state’s history, according to state and local officials.
In Montgomery County, four times as many people voted in the 2004 presidential primaries — 57,541 people voted on Tuesday compared to 14,027 in 2004, when the primaries where held in June, according to Trey Granger, director of elections.
montgomeryadvertiser.com :: Turnout highest in state history
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February 6th, 2008 at 7:27 am
[...] The World Around You wrote an interesting post today on Record Turnout in AlabamaHere’s a quick excerpt Yesterday was a great day for Alabama. Moving our primary up on the calendar did exactly what everyone had hoped, get people excited to come out to the polls, and boy did they come… Preliminary results show that Alabama’s voter turnout on Super Tuesday — a day when 24 states held their primaries — was the highest in the state’s history, according to state and local officials. In Montgomery County, four times as many people voted in the 2004 presidential primaries — 57,541 people voted on Tues [...]