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Record low turnout at Chesterfield town election ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/TNS ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/TNS CHESTERFIELD Monday’s annual town election had the lowest number of votes cast in decades. In the election, which featured no contested races on the ballot, 54 out of the town’s 972 registered voters voted, a 5.6% turnout. “It’s sad, when you think about it,” said Sandy Wickland, Chesterfield’s town clerk. Wickland said she looked back at annual town elections from 1988 to the present, and the 54 votes this year were the fewest in any of them, although she did find some elections that had vote totals in the high 50s. She also said that some candidates on the ballot did not vote. ....