La Crosse Primary turnout
City Clerk Nikki Elsen says despite all of these open seats, the city of La Crosse is only expecting around 20% voter turnout. Which is similar to past February votes. Elsen says several factors including voter burnout from the fall elections and cold weather could influence the lower turnout this February. 'The local elections generally produce a lower turnout, which is unfortunate. We want to see the voters coming out in big numbers for the local contacts. It's unfortunate, but that's what the statistics have shown.'
UW La Crosse Political Science Professor Anthony Chergosky is also surprised by the lower turnout. 'Going from four candidates for mayor down to two is a really big deal because the two candidates are going to go head-to-head in the April election. So the voters' choices today are going to greatly effect the type of election that we have for mayor of La Crosse in April.'
Chergosky adds that a lack of major votes at the state level are also going to lower voting numbers. 'We have the state superintendent election that is going to narrow the candidate field of three down to two, but that has not captured a lot of voter interest. There's not a lot of water cooler conversations regarding the state superintendent election.'
Despite numbers expected to remain around 20% for voter turnout in La Crosse, Chergosky still expects local ballots to draw interest. 'Even though La Crosse is going to have pretty low voter turnout compared to other elections, La Crosse could have higher voter turnout than most other places in Wisconsin because the mayoral race and the school board elections are attracting at least some voter interest.'
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