Voter turnout

MADISON -- About one of every six Wisconsin adults will vote in the Aug. 9 primaries for congressional, state, and county partisan offices. The state Elections Commission predicts a 16-percent statewide turnout, down from almost 19-and-one-half percent four years ago when there was...

The U.S. Census Bureau said Wisconsin had the second-highest voter turnout among the states last November, when President Obama was elected. But the state's figure of 71.2 percent was down by more than five points from 2004. And the percentage of adults nationally who voted was...