Candidates and issues in California’s primary

Some 2.5 million ballots have yet to be counted in California from Tuesday’s primary, according to figures released Thursday evening by the Secretary of State’s office, which could push turnout closer to what officials predicted.

Sanders won a lot of states with not very many votes, which is why he trails in the popular vote (and lost the pledged delegate race). Polls have shown the race is essentially tied.

Voting in Tuesday’s presidential contest came a day after Clinton captured enough commitments from delegates to become the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, according to an Associated Press count. This uncertainty has had Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders scrambling up and down the state, raising funds and holding rallies with seemingly unending vigor.

Trump has sewn up the Republican nomination but hasn’t ignored California.

Many absentee voters did not realize they needed to mail back postcards if they wanted to vote in the open Democratic presidential primary.

It’s Primary Election Day, and voters who haven’t cast their ballot can still do so in Flathead County and most western Montana precincts.

About 3.5 million mail ballots were cast in the state’s 2012 primary, and 3.8 million mail ballots were cast in California’s 2008 presidential primary.

Over half of all registered voters in California (53%) are registered to vote with a ballot that they fill out at their leisure and drop into the mailbox instead of feeding into the ballot box. The suit was rejected last week.

Presidential politics aside, the marquee matchup Tuesday is for California’s first open U.S. Senate seat in 24 years. Former senator and governor Pete Wilson’s anti-immigrant initiatives are usually given the blame for the state’s Democratic tilt, and whether or not that’s true, Donald Trump’s unsavory reputation among Latinos and Asian-Americans threatens to move California even further into the donkey column.

Californians are also making choices in congressional and legislative contests statewide, narrowing the field for November.

Both parties expect Democrats to keep their solid majorities in the state Assembly and Senate.

Foster, Friedman and James Kostoplis are endorsed by the County Democratic Committee and Burlington County Democratic Chairman Joe Andl said he was happy at the outcome and now is looking ahead to the next step.

The poll predicts that the voter turnout will be higher than the 2012 low of 31.1 percent of registered voters, but lower than 2008 – in which 57.7 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

Your polling place should be printed on the sample ballot you received from the county registrar.

The nationwide Election Protection voter hotline said complaints included polling locations opening after the required 7 a.m. start time in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties.