{"id":28769,"date":"2023-11-06T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=28769"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:38:21","slug":"vinson-says-voter-turnout-in-local-elections-is-the-name-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/vinson-says-voter-turnout-in-local-elections-is-the-name-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson says voter turnout in local elections is &#8216;the name of the game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In local elections, the number of voters who come out to polling places is generally low. Some sources say 15% turnout is considered good in a contested municipal race. Spencer Donovan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/politics\/knox-white-michelle-shain-greenville-mayor-turnout\/article_5e01c9e6-799f-11ee-8b10-77fc1c97b140.html\">The Post and Courier Greenville<\/a> spoke to Furman University&#8217;s Danielle Vinson about the upcoming City of Greenville mayoral election. Vinson, a politics and international affairs professor, said voter turnout is everything, noting that even a few hundred or 1,000 votes could swing the election one way or the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local elections typically don&#8217;t draw many from the electorate, which is why additional votes for a well-connected challenger could swing a contest in their direction. Danielle Vinson explains in The Post and Courier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,2232],"tags":[146,2370,2371,413],"class_list":["post-28769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-post-and-courier-greenville","tag-city-of-greenville","tag-local-elections","tag-mayoral-election","tag-voter-turnout"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}