gercohen's blog

Here are your Orange County sample ballots for the November 6, 2018 General Election

• G001 is Chapel Hill town limits except for Patterson Precinct.
• G002 is mostly Carrboro but parts of other precincts mostly south of Chapel Hill. 
• G003 is Chapel Hill town limits in Patterson Precinct (about 1,500 voters).
• G004 is remainder of the county. 

The complete list of ballots by precinct is available on the Orange County Board of Elections website.

I've seen online comments like this one on the CHALT blog:

"Only 20% of registered voters actually voted. There are nearly 106,000 registered voters in Orange County. For this primary, fewer than 20,000 voted. Less than 20%! Surely more than 20% care about our schools, law enforcement, and the county budget."

While it's surely true that 20% is a disappointing primary turnout, let's compare off-year (non-presidential) primary turnout, and remember that 2018 was the first primary since 1958 where there was NO state-wide race or state-wide referendum on the ballot to drive turnout -- and it turns out that 2018 had an unusually HIGH Democratic primary turnout.