In the Bristol Circuit Court clerk's race, 2,770 people cast votes Tuesday. That was 23 percent of the city's 12,150 registered voters. It's better than the 2007 election, but that year the clerk (which has an eight-year term) wasn't on the ballot. That year, though, the voter turnout for Bristol was 17 percent.
Still, it's pretty sad that a quarter of the voters in town felt it necessary to excercise their right to choose between Terry Rohr and David Leonard. Leading up to Tuesday, there seemed to be a good race between the two, and a chance that the incumbent might be upset. One might have thought -- at least we hoped -- that this race at least would've brought more people to the polls.
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