State aims to avoid low voter turnout

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s top elections official and leaders of both political parties are turning to traditional and social media and door-to-door visits in hopes of getting more residents to vote in the November general election.

They have good reason to be worried: The May primary saw a paltry 13 percent of Indiana’s 4.57 million registered voters cast a ballot, and an absence of marquee races that occurs once every 12 years in Indiana could lead to the lowest general election voter turnout in state history.

Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson, who is seeking re-election, doesn’t want that to happen.

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