For over 12,000 voters, the Tuesday, July 26 Greensboro City Council election is over except for the counting.
During early voting, a total of 12,341 voters cast their ballots in the Greensboro City Council race.
The trend has been for more and more voters to take advantage of the convenience of early voting. In the 2008 presidential election, 55.5 percent of voters voted early, and by the 2020 presidential election that had risen to 65 percent.
If 65 percent of the voters in the July 26 City Council election voted early, then the total number of votes cast will be slightly less than 19,000.
And if 19,000 people vote that would be about 9 percent of the 203,838 registered voters in Greensboro.
Some of those who make such predictions have said they expected the voter turnout to be as low as 5 percent, but the general consensus seemed to be somewhere around 10 percent.
It is a difficult election to compare to other elections since, for the Tuesday, July 26 election in Guilford County, only the Greensboro City Council election is on the ballot. For the May 17 primary, the top of the ballot was the US Senate race and there were also congressional races, state legislative and Guilford County races on the ballot along with the City Council races. In that primary, 20.45 percent of the eligible voters in Guilford County voted.
Also, it’s just plain weird to be holding an election at the end of July when so many people are on vacation.
Low voter turnout means that for those who vote their vote carries a lot more weight than it would in a normal election. The polls are open on Tuesday, July 26 from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., giving folks in town plenty of time to vote, and even people at the beach have time to drive home and vote – that is if they are willing to give up a day at the beach to vote.
It is so hard to imagine, with the right given to citizens to voice their direction of Local, State, and Federal governments, we have such low voter turnouts. With so much at stake in Greensboro, you would think you would see lines of voters. Very sad, and a huge reason our city, and many cities across this Nation are failing it’s citizens in safety, business friendly environments.
The Conservatives are failing America by not voting….
If you don’t vote then you don’t get to complain. Just enjoy those property tax increases.
9% of the City runs it. All you apathetic and uniformed people who didn’t vote have no right to complain.
I have friends and family on both sides of the fence. I want to keep my friends and family. I never engage them in politics or religion.
Nonetheless, I have no respect for anyone who votes Democrat. They are responsible for the current National and local governments.
I did not like President Trump, but I more than did not like Clinton. President Trump could have done even better, but for 4 years of hostility from the Left. I liked his policies and the result, but I’d like someone else on the Presidential ballot.
Watching live results from the election website. It shows 12,884 early votes (as they were counted by 7:10PM tonight). Where did the magical extra votes come from?
minorities rule because the majority ‘lead lives of quiet desperation’? not because they are all AT THE BEACH! or, they just don’t care – they accept & are satisfied with the status quo? why would anyone want the ‘center’ of the ‘bell curve’ making tough, sweeping changes to society anyway?