Sentences with phrase «board elections usually»

• School - board elections usually occur in off years or times and thus tend to attract very low turnout, often in the range of 10 to 20 percent.

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As is usually the case with county personnel, a changing of the guard at the board of elections took place last month with little public notice.

The election results released from the polls are usually a clear indicator of who has won the race, but in each race every poll and paper vote needs to be counted and approved by the Board of Elections before a winner can be determined.

Dustin Czarny, one of Onondaga County's Board of Elections commissioners, said that because Election Day usually takes place at the beginning of a month where people tend to move, that currently affects people's ability to register to vote.

The money from the board's political action committee will be used mostly on advertising leading up to the Sept. 10 primary, which in this heavily Democrat district usually determines the winner of the general election, and could have a major impact.

But turnout in community school board elections was very low, usually well below 10 percent of eligible voters, giving groups like the teachers» union outsize sway.

The reality is that, while some 96 percent of school boards are elected (according to data collected by Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute), these elections are usually low - turnout, low - interest affairs in which the vast majority of ordinary citizens play no role at all.

In an off - year school board election that will likely turn out few voters, Reckhow said knocking on doors is usually a better strategy.