{"id":459046,"date":"2016-03-01T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=459046"},"modified":"2016-03-02T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:00:02","slug":"record-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=459046","title":{"rendered":"Record Voter Turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/vote-sign.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/vote-sign.jpg\" alt=\"vote sign\" width=\"116\" height=\"122\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-317925\" \/><\/a>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County saw a record voter turnout for the 2016 Presidential Primary Election. A total of 45,223 ballots were cast, 17,781 were early votes.  There were 27,442 people who cast ballots on Tuesday alone. In comparison, in the 2008 Presidential Primary, there were a total of 41,130 votes cast. in the 2012 Presidential Primary Election, total votes cast came to 29,610. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County saw a record voter turnout for the 2016 Presidential Primary Election. A total of 45,223 ballots were cast, 17,781 were early votes. There were 27,442 people who cast ballots on Tuesday alone. In comparison, in the 2008 Presidential Primary, there were a total of 41,130 votes cast. in the 2012 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=459046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record Voter Turnout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 05:32:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459074,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046\/revisions\/459074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}