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    Why California’s record voter registration failed to result in record turnout

    Why California’s record voter registration failed to result in record turnout


    Voters cast their ballots at Columbus Middle School in Canoga Park, CA. on Tuesday June 7, 2016. (Photo by Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News)

    By David Montero, Long Beach Press Telegram
    POSTED: 06/08/16, 9:18 PM PDT | UPDATED: 4 HRS AGO


    It had the makings of a surge in turnout for the California primary: a competitive Democratic presidential contest with no sitting incumbent, record numbers of registered voters and massive media coverage of candidate rallies throughout the state.

    And when California’s secretary of state Wednesday revealed the preliminary turnout numbers, they were, in fact, considerably higher than 2012. But they were well short of 2008 and the two previous election cycles before that.


    “You have to dig into the psychology a little bit of some of these voters who at one point were enraged and excited ... and then later were humdrum about actually turning out,” said Paul Mitchell, president of the research firm Political Data Inc. “It kind of reminds me of the person who goes into the diner starving and orders 15 pancakes, and then when the food arrives they have a cup of coffee and a piece of toast.”


    Such factors as a noncompetitive Republican presidential primary and The Associated Press call the night before the primary that Hillary Clinton had secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination may have played a role, according to Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst and senior fellow at USC.


    About 33.3 percent of registered voters turned out, compared with 21.9 percent in 2012. In 2008, turnout was 22 points higher.


    “That was not impressive,” Bebitch Jeffe said. “It was like a Goldilocks turnout — just about right.”


    Many counties are still tallying provisional and vote-by-mail ballots, but officials don’t expect them to affect the results of the Democratic presidential race: Clinton beat rival Bernie Sanders handily in California.


    As of Wednesday, some 5.9 million voters statewide cast ballots out of a record number 17.9 million registered voters.


    Los Angeles County accounted for the highest number of ballots cast with more than 1.4 million. But the turnout rate so far stands at 29.3 percent, higher than the paltry 21.8 percent in 2012, when President Obama was up for re-election, but well below the 2008 primary turnout totals of 55.2 percent.


    Orange County fared better with 34.2 percent turnout so far, while Riverside County trailed behind Los Angeles at a 27.5 percent clip. San Bernardino County was at 30.9 percent.


    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.


    Romero, director of the UC Berkley-based California Civic Engagement Project, also believes the AP call for Clinton may have influenced some voters.


    “I was watching the Sharks game and NBC across the ticker below said she had been declared the presumptive nominee,” Romero said. “For young people less familiar with the process and the superdelegate system, you could see that and think it was over. I do think it affected turnout, we just don’t know by how much.”


    Romero also theorized that some newly registered no-party preference voters may not have known that they could ask for crossover ballots, which allow independent voters to participate in the Democratic primary.


    She also agreed that the lack of a competitive Republican presidential race may have contributed to sub-2008 levels but said that was the same year the state moved up its primary to February and that the presidential race was the only item on that ballot.


    Though the turnout results were different eight years ago, one thing remained the same: the result.


    Hillary Clinton won California.

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    Voter Turnout In California Average At Best, Despite Surge In Registration

    June 8, 2016 12:53 PM



    LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — Voter turnout in California’s primary looked about average, despite a last-minute surge in registration and intense interest in an unusually competitive presidential contest.

    Ballots counted by Wednesday afternoon represented only one in four eligible Californians and one in three registered voters.


    While millions remain to be counted, experts who study turnout say it won’t match California’s record primary participation in 2008.


    They blame several factors: Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination weeks ago; an Associated Press delegate count the day before the primary showed Hillary Clinton had clinched the Democratic nomination; and independent voters may have been confused about how to vote in the presidential race.

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