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Nonpartisan Spring Out the Vote campaign falls flat

Sponsors of a nonpartisan effort to buck up voter turnout for the spring elections say they’re going to rethink their strategies given Tuesday’s low turnout in Dane County. (UW Hospital and UW-Madison were among the employers participating in the effort.)

City and county officials said that just 18.7 percent of eligible county voters and 17 percent of eligible Madison voters made it to the polls, the lowest figure in eight years.