Hundreds of congressional, legislative, county and school board candidates criss-crossed the state, their districts and their neighborhoods Monday as they rushed to turn out their supporters for Tuesday's general election.
Polls open at 7 a.m. and stay open until 8 p.m.To find out where your polling place is, call your local county clerk. Salt Lake County's polling places were listed on pages V10 and V11 in Sunday editions of the Deseret News.
Voter turnout is expected to top 50 percent, but much of that will likely come in Salt Lake County where the 2nd Congressional District race pits Democratic Rep. Karen Shepherd, Republican Enid Greene Wald-holtz and Independent Merrill Cook.
Deseret News/KSL pollster
Dan Jones said the 1994 midterm elections will probably have slightly lower voter turnout than midterm elections in 1990 and 1986.
The top-of-the-ticket race between Sen. Orrin Hatch and Democrat Pat Shea has not turned out to be close, polls show. And the 1st and 3rd congressional races also are not that close. However, there should be good off-year turnout in Salt Lake County, which has two commission races, and in the 2nd District, which takes in most of the eastern side of the county, said Jones.