Voters Are Debating The Latest Jefferson Ga Infrastructure Plan
National elections generally fall into two categories: elections where congressional seats are the highest offices decided and years where voters decide on the office of the President and congressional seats. Election results and voting patterns tend to vary between these two types of elections. Voter turnout is consistently higher in years with presidential races (File and Crissey, 2010; File ... Jefferson City Council candidates say city needs state, federal support for infrastructure needs The 2020 presidential election was the highest turn-out election of the twenty-first century and featured the largest increase in voters from one presidential year to the next. While many states maintained tradi-tional voting procedures, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led some states to expand early voting, while others automatically sent all registered voters a ballot that could be ... More voters (154.6 million) turned out for the presidential election in 2020 than in 2016 (137.5 million), the largest increase between consecutive presidential elections since the inception of the CPS voting supplement in 1964. In the last presidential election, 70% of the voting-eligible population registered to vote and 61% voted. Almost 9 in 10 registered voters cast a ballot.
Despite unique challenges to voter registration and voting created by COVID-19 and heightened concerns about turnout as a result, the 2020 election had the highest voter turnout of the 21st century. The 2020 election featured the largest increase in voters between two presidential elections on record with 17 million more people voting than in 2016. Candidates for the Jefferson City Council agree the city needs more infrastructure support through state and federal funding. On April 7, Jefferson City voters will elect members to the City Council ... News Tribune: Jefferson City Council candidates say city needs state, federal support for infrastructure needs