Tuesday is the May primary election, and turnout has already been significantly higher than four years ago.Cincinnati s mayoral race is bringing out more people, and issue three, the affordable housing issue, is also a contributing factor.In 2017, there were 4,400 early votes. This time there were 7,500.“People are taking more of an interest in control, in their lives and voting is one way to do it. One could also think its because people are at home and are thinking about elections, but I hope its because people are taking our democracy seriously,” said Sally Krisel, deputy director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections. Cincinnati voters will pick two mayoral candidates and discard four. The candidates: Gavi Begtrup, a scientist, business owner and former policy advisor for U.S. representative Gabby Giffords.David Mann is an attorney and current council member. He was a former congressman and has served twice as mayor.Herman Najoli is an educator and author, a soccer
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Aftab Pureval, Cecil Thomas, David Mann.
Those are your top tier candidates in the May 4 Cincinnati mayoral primary. Not necessarily in that order.
And only two of them can survive the primary.
If the turnout is as low as it has been in previous mayoral primaries, there s no telling what might happen.
Nine potential candidates filed petitions with the Hamilton County Board of Elections by Feb. 18 to run in the primary, but the ranks are thinning out.
Cincinnati Council Member Wendell Young has already been eliminated; he failed to meet the threshold of 500 valid signatures of Cincinnati voters. And he failed by a long shot – he was short 151 signatures, according to the board of elections.