While national races demand the most attention in a typical election years, it’s crucial that voters understand how the results of the local — and state — elections will affect them as well. “The government that is closest to you, like municipal government, school boards, and county government … they have more of an effect on you than the national government does,” explained Jim Klein, a Corpus Christi City Council Member at Large and Professor of History at Del Mar College. “The city does things like determining what the water rates are going to be, what shape the roads are…