California saw surge in registration, but not in voting

Registrar of Voters Michael Vu said on Monday he expects 55 percent to 60 percent of the county’s 1.5 million registered voters will cast ballots in the election.

Paul Mitchell of Political Data Inc. said the registration boost among young voters and Latinos had yet to materialize in returned mail ballots as of Monday.

Your polling place is listed on your sample ballot. The polls will remain open until 8 p.m. But at a Santa Clara County government building in north San Jose, voters were committed. California is typically not a player in the presidential contest with its primary so late in the election season. Of the three-quarters of the vote-by-mail voters in California who had not sent their ballots in by last week, more of them said that they would be voting for Senator Sanders.

“If they were intending to vote, I think they will”, DiCamillo said.

This is true. The California Secretary of State’s website explains why this is normally the case: More people vote by permanent absentee ballot, which requires additional verification.

It all comes down to this for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. And a sudden dip in voter interest because of what is happening at the top of the ballot can – and probably did – have an effect on other outcomes. Los Angeles County alone estimated it had 570,000 ballots left to count. And of course, as he has repeatedly said at rallies, he has already broken the record for the number of votes received in a Republican primary contest, and he wants to keep raising the tally. Included in those 2.5 million uncounted ballots are 705,000 provisional ballots, ballots cast at the polling place that need to be validated because, for example, voter information didn’t match registration.

At the time that Congresswoman Barbara Boxer won her U.S. Senate seat in 1992, edging out television commentator Bruce Herschensohn, California was a competitive state for Republicans statewide.

Primary election winners will begin campaigning after Labor Day leading up to the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

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It would take an incredibly popular and moderate third-party candidate to actually win some states and therefore electoral votes that would prohibit either of the two major parties from securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency. Unaffiliated voters will get a ballot with only the names of the candidates in the nonpartisan school district races unless they requested a different ballot prior to May 31. If you bring your vote by mail ballot with you to your assigned polling location, you can surrender it and vote in person with a regular crossover ballot. Yours may still be coming in the mail. For the first time, election officials planned to count ballots that arrive up to three days after the election, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday.