{"id":128030,"date":"2026-06-18T05:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/06\/18\/voting-turnout-low-for-county-during-primary\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:22:34","modified_gmt":"2028-12-04T05:22:34","slug":"voting-turnout-low-for-county-during-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/06\/18\/voting-turnout-low-for-county-during-primary\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Voting Turnout Low For  County During Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roosevelt County commissioners discussed the low turnout for the primary election during their weekly  meeting held on Tuesday, June 9.<br \/>\n\t  Only 22.37 percent of the county\u2019s 5,952 voters case their ballot in the June 2 primary election. The statewide  voting turnout was 37 percent.<br \/>\n\t  A local resident mentioned the financial waste of the election because  the county has to destroy all the ballots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128335,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128030\/revisions\/128335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128030"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=128030"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=128030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}