. . . Statewide, official election night returns Tuesday showed that only 18.3 percent of California’s 17.7 million registered voters cast ballots, although those numbers could increase when absentee and mail-in ballots are counted.
Still, this is the lowest voter turnout California has seen in a gubernatorial primary, said Paul Mitchell, analyst for Political Data Inc. Mitchell expects the number to climb from 18.7 percent to about 22 or 23 percent, but even that, he says is shockingly low. . .
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