The excitement over the 2008 presidential campaign that compelled 500,000 new voters to register and generated a 75 percent turnout just isn’t there for an off-year legislative election that features no statewide or national races. (More coverage of local politics.)

Turnout for Tuesday’s elections for state and local offices — including boards of supervisors and school boards — probably won’t come close to the 46 percent turnout from last year’s midterm congressional elections.