HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Voter turnout for the primary election Tuesday night was not too bad.
Numbers released by the Reno County Clerk's Office show that voter turnout in the county was 36%. There were 14,082 votes cast with more than 1,400 of them cast in advance. That does not include ballots that need to be counted by hand, nor mailed out ballots that can still come into the clerk's office until Friday. A final canvass is set for Thursday, Aug. 13.
By comparison, voter turnout for the 2016 primary was 11,976 ballots cast, or about 30%.
There are 39,183 registered voters in Reno County.