Iowa voters are selecting local school policy decision-makers in today’sschool board elections. Board positions in three-hundred-77 Iowa schooldistricts are being decided. Chet Culver is the state’s Commissioner ofElections.Poll hours are partly determined on a county-wide basis.Culver says, unfortunately, school board elections have the worst turn-out ofany type of election in Iowa. Only about ten percent of Iowans vote inschool board elections.Culver says in some other states, school board election ballots are mailed tovoters, who in turn send back their completed ballots.
