There are eight days left until early voting begins, but activists aren’t out in force asking students to register like they did last year.
If they did, they would mostly face blank stares.
Last year, 74,920 people — 71 percent of Orange County’s registered voters — voted in the local municipal election.
But in 2007, the last time local elections happened without a national race to draw interest, only 14 percent of Chapel Hill’s registered voters turned out to vote.
There was no “first black president” that time.
