“Mail ballots arriving at the Orange County elections office indicate a low-turnout for Tuesday’s primary, with voting on pace to see less than 30 percent of registered voters casting ballots in the county,” according to the O.C. Register.
The voter turnout is similar in other parts of the state as well – “Workers with the San Francisco Department of Elections have been opening absentee ballots that have been trickling in and based on those numbers, they expect voter turnout for this election to be around 35 to 40 percent,” according to ABC News.
In Kern County, the Voter Registrar had issued 156,063 absentee ballots, but only 30,242 had been returned, according to Bakersfield.com. Continue reading