Seaman (R), Berkley (D) leaning on bipartisan bona fides for nonpartisan race

Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the U.S. federal races this election cycle ensures that voters know who’s at the top of the ticket and why they are choosing them. Beyond that top race on the ballot, however, things get murkier.

Call it the downballot blues.

It’s a particular problem for local nonpartisan candidates, who often lack the name familiarity and big campaign war chest to be heard amid the din of a presidential election. As a result, voters often leave those boxes on their ballot unfilled in phenomenon known by political scientists as ballot “roll off,” according to David Damore, UNLV political science professor and executive director of the Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West.

That roll off can be significant, according to the U.S. Vote Foundation, a data-driven civic engagement organization.


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