Voter turnout just below seven percent in Cuyahoga County

[dolo amber]

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=43122

7%?? How depressing! :(

[texpatriot2004]

1. After 2004 and since nothing has changed...I can see this all over

:grr:

[...of J.Temperance]

2. What is the main city in that county?

Obviously it's one of our cities, judging by your :(

[dolo amber]

3. It's Cleveland

[...of J.Temperance]

11. Okay, thanks to you and Dr.Phool :)

[Dr.Phool]

5. Cleveland, most of the metropolitan area.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. It's an off-year election.

I wouldn't be surprised if most people don't even know it's happening.

[MADem]

6. How late are the polls open? Hopefully there will be an after work influx

[mongo]

7. Not good

This doesn't bode well for the election reform initatives - especially after all the attack ads about them.

Crap.

[Kukesa]

8. Are we the only Buckeyes who care?

Care about anything? I was the only person in my polling place this morning; the parking lot was nearly empty.

I just thanked a friend of mine (he refuses to vote) for making my vote more powerful. He shrugged and said it doesn't matter. Sometimes I wonder if he's right.

[johnnie]

9. It was pretty thin this morning when I voted

I am hoping more people get out after work.

[Epiphany4z]

10. I am waiting

for man thing to get home then we will be out to vote. We are down to 1 car this week.

[WCGreen]

16. Man thing... I love it.....

We voted together...

[...of J.Temperance]

12. Oh I was going to say, dolo amber

It's still early, perhaps people are still at work...so keep your chin up, that 7% might balloon over the next few hours :)

Remember, it's not over 'til it's over, and the polls are still open.

[asthmaticeog]

13. Hmmm, Campbell or Jackson, Campbell or Jackson...

I wonder why people are staying home. x(

Actually, I live right across the street from a polling place, and now that it's 5:30, it's REALLY hoppin'. I think that number'll go up quite a bit.

[WCGreen]

15. It always goes up after work.....

[WCGreen]

14. That's at ten o'clock in the morning....

Things will change...

I know for a fact that Westlake and Brook Park are going to have over 40-45 percent turnout...

In Brook Park, we had over 700 absentee voters... Very high a local election....

When we voted at 2:30, we had a 23% turnout in our precinct....

[ellie]

17. I went to vote and lunchtime and

had to stand in line here in Lucas County. There were people all over in the polling place and in the parking lot.

[Beware the Beast Man]

18. Funny how that works.

Local issues always affect citizens much more on a day-to-day basis than national issues do. To be quite honest, though, this was my firt non-presidential election.

[OhioChick]

19. Wow.......

That is depressing. I went at lunchtime to vote and it was empty there. :(