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RURAL COMMUNITIES SHOW HIGH TURNOUT FOR RECALL
WPR News - Rural communities show high turnout for recall
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Wednesday June 06, 2012
by Steve Roisum
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Many of Wisconsin's smaller, rural communities had higher-than-usual voter turnout for yesterday's election.
In the town of Barre in La Crosse County, Town Clerk Sally Stelloh says she's seeing twice as many voters as usual: "We have a good turnout in Barre, people are civically-minded and they're very interested in what's going on."
Down the road the rural town of Bangor is seeing a heavy voter turnout too. Bangor Clerk Peg Culpitt says as of noon, already a third of the registered voters in the community had cast their ballots. She says she's not surprised at the turnout so far. Culpitt says the election has stirred up strong emotions. "I think in some cases its brought conflict into families where two people are coming and they're canceling each other out."
Despite the large turnout, there have been no major problems in the towns of Barre and Bangor.
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