Could Someone Else Have Worse Voter Turnout Than Hawaii?

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Looks like Alaska might have slid past Hawaii this year on the bottom of the list of voter turnout.

The Associated Press in Juneau reports that the 49th State only saw 59.5 percent of its registered voters show up at the polls on Nov. 6. But then, Sarah Palin wasn’t on the ballot this year like she was in 2008. The former Alaska governor and vice-presidential nominee was popular back then in her home state (though not so much anymore.)

Here in the Aloha State, our voter turnout hit 62 percent. If you count the actual number of ballots cast, we were down by about 20,000 from 2008 although our percentage may have ticked up a tad.

Photo by Brian Tseng for Civil Beat.

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