Voter turnout low in Tuesday's election

Most registered voters didn't vote Tuesday.

Less than 13 percent of Cape Girardeau County's approximately 50,000 registered voters cast ballots, according to election returns.

"It's right about what I thought," Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers said.

She and other area election officials said voters typically don't show up to the polls for April municipal and school elections.

In Bollinger County, just over 1,000 ballots were cast, amounting to less than a 13 percent turnout.

In Scott County, 18 percent of the county's more than 23,000 voters cast ballots.

More than 3,000 votes were cast in Perry County, reflecting a turnout of about a fourth of the registered voters, according to election returns.