34% turnout at Cole County polls predicted

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Cole County Clerk Marvin Register predicts 34 percent of the county's registered voters will cast ballots in Tuesday's primary election.

And, for the first time in a number of years, the secretary of state's office has not issued a separate, statewide turnout prediction. Instead, Jason Kander's office last week released predictions from all 116 individual election officials.

Taken together and calculated against Missouri's 4,061,820 registered voters, it appears that about 27 percent of voters statewide will cast ballots.

The highest of the individual county predictions comes from northeast Missouri's Knox County, where the county clerk predicts 69.28 percent of the county's 2,598 registered voters will vote in the primary.

The state's second-highest turnout prediction was Osage County's 60 percent, of 9,365 registered voters.

Other Mid-Missouri counties, in the order of their predictions, were: Maries County, 43 percent; Camden and Morgan counties, each with 39.99 percent; Miller County, 35 percent; Cole County, 34 percent; Gasconade County, 33.54 percent; Moniteau County, 30.06 percent; Callaway County, 28.61 percent; and Boone County, 16.20 percent.

The state's least optimistic turnout prediction was made by Howell County's clerk, who said only 9.47 percent of the 26,389 registered voters will cast ballots.

Also at the low end were Saline County, 18 percent; Jefferson County, south of St. Louis, with 18.22 percent; and Harrison County, 20 percent.

Other high turnout predictions included: Shannon County, 58.54 percent; Carter County, 57 percent; Chariton County, 52.99 percent; and Pemiscot County, 52.42 percent.

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