Early voting is underway for the March 29 election, and while the ballot may not have the firepower of a presidential or gubernatorial election, it does have a lot of taxes up for votes.
Part of the reason for that, says pollster John Couvillon of JMC Analytics, is just the calendar.
"Let's say the tax renewal is for a set period of time, then you have find that election day that's closest to when it was originally approved," Couvillon explained.
And he says low turnout elections help supporters mobilize.
"It's easy for you to mobilize your constituency and get that constituency to the polls, and that constituency would punch above its weigh, so to speak," he said. "So it's very easy, theoretically, to mobilize a constituency like that, in a five to ten percent-turnout election."
Couvillon says there is a risk: if too many tax issues are on one ballot, it could help galvanize opposition.
Some of the tax issues on the ballot include a millage renewal in St. Tammany Parish to fund law enforcement, a tax swap in Tangipahoa that will also dedicate funds to law enforcement, and a millage renewal in Jefferson Parish that funds levee maintenance and repairs on the Westbank.