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My Way News/APPerhaps it had to happen sooner or later: a Democratic presidential primary where voters just don't care.
It's happening later. After an extended season of sizzling competition and swollen turnout in state after state, it's Puerto Rico's turn, and the territory is showing little interest in what's left of the contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Local elections routinely attract 80 percent of voters. And the Democratic primary is open to all registered voters of whatever party, because Puerto Rico doesn't register voters by party. Nevertheless, electoral officials predict fewer than 25 percent of the 2.3 million registered voters will turn out for Sunday's primary.
This, despite the sizable prize of 55 delegates at stake, more than are offered in Montana and South Dakota combined in the last two primaries of the year, on Tuesday.
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