Broadwater won the seat in a low-turnout general election held on November 19, 2011.
They perceive it to be good politics in a low-turnout election.
On a low-turnout general election day, Dixon defeated her Republican challenger with more than 87 percent of the vote.
And in low-turnout elections political strategists make special efforts to bring out their most loyal voters - blacks in the case of Democrats.
He polled 3,793 votes (91.5 percent) in a low-turnout election to her 353 ballots (8.5 percent).
He polled 50.1 percent of the ballots cast in a low-turnout election.
A bigger question, they say, is whether the public will accept it and whether politicians who prefer to run in low-turnout elections will go along.
The next challenge for charter advocates: winning the support of a majority of voters in a low-turnout municipal election.
But he and others said that news coverage of the events could help stir interest in what is otherwise expected to be a low-turnout election.
Two Republicans met in the low-turnout November 17 general election to fill Beard's seat.
