City of Murfreesboro, TN - Government
Oct 12, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
Election season is here, and voters across Murfreesboro and Rutherford County will soon head to the polls to make important decisions. On this episode of The Insider, the City of Murfreesboro's…
Mike BrowningHost
We talked about early voting, but then you also mentioned the turnout for the actual voting.
Uh, y- what were you saying you were expecting the turnout to be in this midterm election?
... because, I mean, we have some, and ag- I, I promise I won't get on my soapbox here, but, you know, uh, sometimes in our, in our county elections, we'll only have, you know, 10%, 12% turnout.
Uh, but our national, um, turnout is, uh, our n- national, state, and federal elections, we have a higher turnout.
... well, we get far greater impact of our, from local government, but people don't turn out for those elections.
You know, one thing I don't think people realize is there's the number of people who go, come to vote, but then there's also the number who register, and there are a lot of people who don't register-
So when you look at the, the number of registered versus the overall population, that's a whole nother figure.
So it's i- i- the amount of people who vote is actually less than the people that are, that have the right to vote or the potential to vote.
We talked about early voting, but then you also mentioned the turnout for the actual voting.
Uh, y- what were you saying you were expecting the turnout to be in this midterm election?
... because, I mean, we have some, and ag- I, I promise I won't get on my soapbox here, but, you know, uh, sometimes in our, in our county elections, we'll only have, you know, 10%, 12% turnout.
Uh, but our national, um, turnout is, uh, our n- national, state, and federal elections, we have a higher turnout.
... well, we get far greater impact of our, from local government, but people don't turn out for those elections.
You know, one thing I don't think people realize is there's the number of people who go, come to vote, but then there's also the number who register, and there are a lot of people who don't register-
So when you look at the, the number of registered versus the overall population, that's a whole nother figure.
So it's i- i- the amount of people who vote is actually less than the people that are, that have the right to vote or the potential to vote.
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