Election officials are not expecting a large turnout at polling places on Tuesday, November 8. Leaders said since this isn’t a presidential election year, they expect around 45-50% of voters to participate.
“We have 3,689,235 registered voters in the state of Alabama,” Secretary of State John Merrill said. “We anticipate we are going to have somewhere between 1.65 million and 1.84 million of those folks go to the polls tomorrow. That is between 45 to 50%. That’s a moderate turnout at best.”
“This is typically a re-election mode for Alabama,” Merrill said. “When the governor is on the ballot and is a very popular governor, which is where we are today, and that is why I anticipate the turnout is what it is projected to be.” “It will be interesting to see what those final numbers look like in different pockets throughout the state.”“My best guess is 40 to 42% voter turnout, so 200,000 to 210,000 voters,” Jefferson County’s Board of Registrars Chairman Barry Stephenson said. “There is not much competition at the top of the ballot and that is what drives turnout.”
“We could increase voter turnout by making it easier for folks to vote,” Jefferson County Democrats Chairman Wayne Rogers said. “I would prefer we do it something similar to what Georgia does, they actually open up voting two weeks before election day and have two full weeks of voting.”“The folks who are working an hourly wage, when they go vote tomorrow, it is going to cost them money,” Rogers said.
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