Statewide, officials were seeing relatively «
normal turnout» for an off - year, municipal
election, meaning that overall
turnout could be 30 percent, said Av Harris, a spokesman for Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.
Now that we're looking at a presidential
election year,
turnout will return to a
normal Democratic advantage and the playing field for us is overwhelmingly on offense,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who chairs his party's campaign committee.