On Election Day, only 58.55% of registered voters in Alabama turned out to the polls, marking one of the lowest voter turnouts for a presidential election in over 30 years, according to data from the Alabama Secretary of State's Office.

In Alabama, voters use paper ballots, which are processed by optical scan machines. These machines read the marked bubbles on each ballot when they are fed into the system.

Voter turnout in Washington looks to be the lowest in more than two decades. Here's what state and local party leaders and the secretary of state have to say about the drop-off.

While votes are still being counted, voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election is on track to be on par with the historically large 2020 presidential election. As a majority of voters mailed their ballots in for the 2020 presidential election,