Allegheny County officials are predicting a very low voter turnout for Tuesday's off-year non-presidential elections.
County Executive Rich Fitzgerald says he expects turnout to be in the high 20's or low 30 percent range:
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"If that", he says. "It is typically the lowest of the cycles that you have. You have a low turnout election on the school board, borough council, judicial races, which in many cases impact your life a heck of a lot more than the national ones do".
Fitzgerald telling Marty Griffin on NewsRadio KDKA that local school boards affect everything you do, whether you have children in the school system or not.