Civics 101, you have to declare party

We are about a month away from the June 5 Democratic and Republican primaries in Alabama and things seem awfully quite on the local level because there is only one local race on the ballot in the Democratic Primary between incumbent District 5 Commissioner David Quarker and challenger Karean Reynolds.

Things will be different in the November General Election when we have Republican nominees and Democratic nominees for county commissioner, sheriff and state representative.

So, I'll go ahead and predict a very low voter turnout in June. The only race that may draw a lot of attention will be t...