The race to fill the senate seat vacated when Troy Carter was elected to the U.S. House comes to an end today.
The runoff election to fill Senate District Seven with a state senator will be over by this evening.
Democrat Joanna Cappiello-Leopold, Democratic state Rep.
Gary Carter Jr., Democratic state Rep. Mack Cormier and Republican Patricia McCarty are all in the race.
Voting is going on until 8pm.
If no candidate receives 50% of the vote, another runoff will take place on July 10th.
Getting people out to vote has proven troublesome, as only 2,400 of an estimated 68,000 potential voters have turned out so far to early vote.
According to the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate that’s less than half as many voters who participated in the 2015 election to fill the seat.
