A line of voters stretches around the corner of the building at the Hamilton County Election Commission during early voting in this file photo.With a week left for early voting in the May 6 Hamilton County primary elections, about 1 percent of registered voters have cast ballots.
Hamilton County Election Commission figures show by Tuesday, 2,655 of the county’s 219,667 registered voters have gone to one of four early voting locations.
Early voting, which started April 16, wraps up on May 1.
That could make for a very busy election day – or wildly low overall voter turnout.
Election Administrator Kerry Steelman said Wednesday if numbers stay constant through the end of early voting, 2014 will exceed the 2 percent May early voter turnout from 2010, the last countywide election for four-year posts. But it may not hit the 3 percent early voter turnout of May 2006 – the last time all the county judges were up for new eight-year terms.