A higher-than-average voter turnout is expected in Tuesday’s municipal elections in Johnson County. That’s judging by advance voting numbers so far along with requests for mail-in ballots, county Election Commissioner Fred Sherman said Thursday. Sherman told Johnson County commissioners this year’s turnout may be near or slightly above 20% – which would be a high point for off-year, midterm elections that usually draw fewer voters than the partisan contests that happen in even years and feature races for state and federal offices. Turnout in the 2019 city elections was close to 17%, according to the election commission archive. Sherman said there’s been some improvement in voter turnout for city elections since the Kansas Legislature moved them from April to November, starting in 2017.
Source: Prairie Village Post
