More than 3.1 million voted in election
By Globe Staff
More than 3.1 million people voted in the Nov. 4 election, the highest number ever to cast ballots in Massachusetts, the secretary of state's office said today.
The vote "demonstrates the civic involvement of our citizens and their intense interest in this crucial election. Even with more than three million people voting, in a state with a total population of 6.4 million, the election ran smoothly, which is a tribute to the thousands of election workers throughout all our cities and towns," Secretary of State William F. Galvin said in a statement.
A total of 3,102,995 people voted, according to returns prepared for certification by the Governor's Council next week, Galvin said. Democrat Barack Obama won the presidential race, with 1,904,097 votes to 1,108,854 for Republican John McCain, or 62 percent to 36 percent.
The number of people voting is even more impressive when you consider that the US Census estimates that there are about 5 million adults in the state.
The previous highest number of votes cast was 2,927,455, Galvin's office said. While the total number of people voting was a record, the percentage of those registered who voted was not a record, secretary of state's spokesman Brian McNiff said.
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yeah yeah yeah, if anyone didnt know that the Republicans were going to loose no matter who the Democrats nominated should climb out of the rock they have been living under, the real issue was the ballot questions, where are there results??