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Latvia’s Central Election Commission (CVK) says final voter turnout for the EU elections was stable at 33.7%, slightly up on 2019 data when 33.5% turned out to vote. The figure is still a far cry from 2009 when more than half of eligible voters went to the polls. And those numbers are at odds with a Eurobarometer survey conducted in April in which 65% of Latvians expressed their readiness to engage with the elections and vote. The CVK said voting took place without incident but there had been serious technical glitches affecting turnout data. That led several news outlets to report that turnou…