By Calvin Welch, HANC Board Member
Turnout in the March Democratic Presidential primary was off the hook, with a whopping overall neighborhood turnout of 72%, with 70% of the voters casting ballots in the North Panhandle precincts, 71% turnout in the progressive voting Flatland precincts and a whopping 75% turnout in the Hill precincts. The turnout vastly exceeded the 2016 Primary vote in which 59% of the voters in the Haight Ashbury cast ballots, with 58% turnout in the North Panhandle, 61% in the Flats and 59% in the Hill precincts. (Charts for voter turnout, Presidential vote, and Props D and E turnout are at the end of this article).