COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Despite intense interest in a historic election, Ohio voter turnout for the 2008 presidential election likely fell short of the 2004 race.

Ohio's turnout stood at nearly 5.6 million voters late Wednesday, about 67 percent.

Voter turnout in Cuyahoga County was lower than expected. In Cuyahoga County, 645,000 people voted.

Compare that to the Bush-Kerry race in 2004, when 28,000 more people voted for the president.

Some believe Obama's widening lead may have played a role in lower turnout.

Lorain County had almost 8 percent more people voting than Cuyahoga. Medina was third-lowest.

The highest voter turnout numbers for the NewsChannel5 viewing area was Geauga County, which had a whopping 75 percent turnout.

Summit and Portage counties also had more than 70 percent.

The highest voter turnout for all of Ohio was Wayne County with 82 percent of eligible citizens voting.

The number accounts for full Election Day counts from all 88 counties, except Franklin, where 99.88 percent of precincts had reported. It also does not include about 60,000 uncounted absentee ballots and about 154,000 uncounted provisional ballots statewide.

Roughly 5.7 million registered voters -- or 72 percent -- voted in the 2004 election that clinched President George W. Bush's re-election.

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner had predicted 80 percent turnout for this year's election.

Ohio's record was 77 percent in the 1992 election, when about 5 million voted in the election that gave Bill Clinton the presidency.