New voters, few hiccups as Californians head to the polls

But at a Santa Clara County government building in north San Jose, voters were committed.

“They just got lost in the shuffle”.

Voting appears to be going smoothly across California.

On Tuesday, all of the in-person polling places are in their usual locations except those at Franklin and Lowell elementary schools, which are undergoing construction. Ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on June 28 to be counted.

Almost 650,000 Californians registered to vote in the last 45 days before the deadline, giving the state a record primary election registration of 17.9 million.

Two former Republican party chairmen and a physicist-turned-software developer are among several GOP contenders for the Senate seat, but none has polled above single digits or raised significant campaign funds in the overwhelmingly Democratic state.

Some Californians are surprised – and disappointed – to learn they aren’t able to vote for their preferred presidential candidate.

Today, Californians will finish a primary election that really has been taking place for nearly a month, when the first round of absentee ballots were mailed out.

But with the Democratic presidential nomination featuring a flurry of activity between Sanders and Clinton leading up to the primary, and 562,238 people added to the voter rolls between January and March – more than the previous nine months combined – Mindy Romero expected higher participation numbers.

Bernie Sanders issued a statement refuting the report. You can then research the candidates, select your choices, and print out or email your list to yourself.

A brief period when it looked like California could be decisive in both the Republican and Democratic presidential drove up interest in the election, but it’s not surprising that some would-be voters lost interest once the races looked decided, Romero said. Residents with a Colorado driver’s license can register to vote, update existing registration and confirm their records at www.GoVoteColorado.com.

In the other marquee contest, two Democrats, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Orange County, will face each other in the U.S. Senate race in November.

In the Democratic primary in California, the AP called the primary for Hillary Clinton.

As many as two dozen races for the Legislature or Congress will pit same-party candidates against each other on November 8, according to early returns from Tuesday. Barbara Boxer, who is retiring, is one of the state’s most closely watched races. The blue state blues of the California GOP may sink to a new level soon, thanks to the 2010 passage by voters of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “top two” election system, replacing the old traditional primary process.

In order to vote, you must be 18 years old on or before Election Day, a US citizen, and a Montana resident.

Beyond the Democratic presidential headliners, a number of other prominent races will likely motivate the masses to show up at the polls on Tuesday.

Elysse Crabtree registered as a Democrat so she could vote for Sen.

Second, there are hundreds of polling stations in Riverside County, but only one of them is yours.