Nail-Biting Over Mesa City Council Races Here in Downtown? 6 out of 10 Eligible Voters Don't Care!

That's the most recent tabulated data from the Maricopa County Recorder's Office as of 11/11/2018 yesterday that grabbed me: 38% Turnout here in District 4.
HOW BAD IS THAT??


Nail-biting is an oral compulsive habit

Now really just how bad is that when neither of the two candidates, Jennifer Duff or Jake Brown, could not muster more people who live here and are eligible to vote, just did not participate in the General Election. 
A few hundred votes can throw it either way! 
Looks like the majority of eligible voters just sat this one out. They just did not care enough to take the time to support either one of the two candidates.
What's even more surprising is that the tried-and-true old political machine could not deliver the usual game-changing results they wanted: Jake Brown was endorsed by incumbent Chris Glover [his 2nd cousin], District 1 Councilmember Mark Freeman and The Mesa Chamber of Commerce.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS SO FAR:

Mesa-Council-Dist 4 (vote for 1)	Ballot Cast: 10891	Turnout: 38%
		BROWN, JAKE	4081	48% 48%
		DUFF, JEN*	4400	52% 52%

__________________________________________________________________________By press time last Friday this might have been the situation:
Mesa Council races remain nailbiters well after vote

By Jim Walsh Tribune Staff | 6 hrs ago

"Against the backdrop of thousands of uncounted ballots at the county Recorder’s Office, the races to fill two seats on the Mesa City Council could not be closer in early voting results.

At press time Friday and with 345,000 ballots yet to be counted countywide, Jen Duff was clinging to a 289-vote lead in District Four over Jake Brown . . . "
READ MORE > Jim Walsh's Story in AZCentral