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There Was A Heavy Voter Turnout Tuesday In Dickinson County But Not Record Breaking

November 07, 2024 Steve Schwaller

(Spirit Lake)– Voter turnout in Dickinson county in Tuesday’s election was actually down slightly from the 2020 Presidential election. Jordan Moyer who oversees elections in the county and gives a breakdown on the numbers…

“Absentees we had 6,301 ballots that got put through with our absentee board and then on election day we had, I’d say, about 5,000 that walked through so we had a little over 11,000 people that had voted. And that is a very high number, but in 2020 we did have a 79 percent that voted for the county and this year right now it’s at 76 percent. For the Secretary of State for Iowa as a whole, we had, I want to say, about 80 percent of the state had voted and right now with numbers coming in I saw that it was at 73 percent. So it felt like a higher turnout as far as absentee and even election day we had lines. Unfortunately we had a system issue in the morning for a couple of hours that did cause longer lines and longer wait times, but other than that we, it was a very, very busy day.”

Outside of the one issue, Moyer says things went smoothly.

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