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Prior to joining KQED in 2016, Katie was state government reporter for Capital Public Radio in Sacramento. She's also worked for KPBS in San Diego, where she covered City Hall.\r\n\r\nKatie received her masters degree in political science from San Diego State University and holds a Bachelors degree in broadcast journalism from Arizona State University.\r\n\r\nIn 2015 Katie won a national Clarion Award for a series of stories she did on women in California politics. She's been honored by the Society for Professional Journalists and, in 2013, was named by \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> as one of the country's top state Capitol reporters. She's also reported for the award-winning documentary series \u003cem>The View from Here \u003c/em>and was part of the team that won national PRNDI and Gabriel Awards in 2015. She lives in Sacramento with her husband. 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href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equity-in-voter-turnout-after-pandemic-election-policy-changes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study from the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> found that while the state's universal vote-by-mail law actually decreased the turnout gap between racial and ethnic groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837095/how-covid-19-warped-californias-election-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the simultaneous consolidation of voting locations\u003c/a> diminished those gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, California actually saw a more representative electorate in 2020 than in 2016,\" said PPIC Senior Fellow Eric McGhee, one of the report's authors, noting the impact of the mail-ballot law. \"But it wasn’t as good in the counties that did the [voting site] consolidations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b8c7ce15d5dbf599fb46ab/t/621fae5d9e646142640e7a4a/1646243427169/USC+CID+Black+Voting+Experience+in+California+Report+FINAL.pdf\">A separate report\u003c/a> from the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy found that Black voters in Black-majority census tracts were more likely than the general electorate to vote in person. And Black voters surveyed were most likely not to know about the myriad changes made to the state's voting process during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the findings show that the outreach, that the quality of the outreach, how extensive the outreach is done in counties across the state is absolutely, enormously important, and we know that outreach efforts are chronically underfunded,\" said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy, who co-authored both studies. \"Voters don’t know about all the changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's universal vote-by-mail law, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825137/state-legislature-approves-bill-to-mail-all-california-voters-a-ballot\">implemented in 2020 \u003c/a>amid COVID-19 concerns, and subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">made permanent\u003c/a>, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869522/touting-voter-turnout-vote-by-mail-advocates-seek-permanent-change-to-california-elections\">the biggest impact\u003c/a> on boosting statewide voter turnout — resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\">historically high participation\u003c/a> in the November 2020 election — an earlier PPIC study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as county officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struggled to recruit poll workers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831335/all-hands-on-deck-as-california-election-officials-struggle-to-find-pandemic-safe-polling-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find voting locations\u003c/a> that could accommodate social distancing, state lawmakers allowed them to open fewer sites if they agreed to offer extended early voting hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"voter-turnout\"]Only 16 counties stuck with the traditional model of assigning each voter a polling place without consolidating precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC study found that the precinct consolidation expanded the turnout gap for Latino and Black voters, especially for Black voters who were not previously registered to vote-by-mail and were therefore not used to having a ballot arrive in their mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The in-person places were so varied across the state that people had to get used to that difference,\" said Astrid Ochoa, a public affairs consultant who advises the Secretary of State's office on changes to election administration. \"Just because you’re sending every voter a ballot, there still needs to be a strong emphasis on voter education and outreach for that practice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies grappled with the difficulty of identifying voters of different racial or ethnic groups, as most voters don't provide that information. Researchers instead analyzed registrant surnames, census block demographics and survey data to determine voter demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More changes to California's voting practices are on the horizon this year, when at least 11 additional counties — including Alameda, Marin and Sonoma — will opt in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voters-choice-act\">California's Voter's Choice Act\u003c/a>, which allows for the permanent consolidation of polling places into vote centers, where any voter in the county can cast a ballot and receive voting or language assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USC report also looked at longer-term trends in voting equity, namely that the turnout gap between Black and white voters in California has grown in recent years, even as the gap between whites and other ethnic groups has shrunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Woodson, executive director of the California Black Power Network, pointed to the long-term effects of gentrification and displacement in disrupting civic participation among Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black residents are being pushed out of traditionally urban hubs into new emerging communities that don’t necessarily have established organizing infrastructure, don’t have groups that are reaching out to engage them around elections,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USC survey found Black California voters were twice as likely to take public transportation to the polls in 2020, as compared to voters of other racial or ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say voting disparities could be further exacerbated as more Black voters move to suburban and exurban communities with fewer public transportation options and greater distances between voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in an urban center, a lot of our places are still rural,\" said Minister Quan Williams, an organizer for the Inland Empire-based Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement, or COPE. \"Even catching public transportation to a polling place might be challenging, you might have to walk in the street to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For local election officials, consolidating voting locations helps offset the cost of mailing every voter a ballot. Funding for elections was plentiful in 2020, but there's no guarantee that largess will continue in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McGhee, from PPIC, said state lawmakers should take the findings as caution that \"we need to possibly rethink some of this in-person consolidation, or at least how we do it and maybe how much we do it because of the impacts on equity.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two new studies find California's record turnout came with significant racial and ethnic gaps, due largely to the consolidation of voting locations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1646686773,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":912},"headData":{"title":"Report: Reducing Voting Locations 'Discouraged Participation' for California's Black and Latino Voters in 2020 | KQED","description":"Two new studies find California's record turnout came with significant racial and ethnic gaps, due largely to the consolidation of voting locations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Report: Reducing Voting Locations 'Discouraged Participation' for California's Black and Latino Voters in 2020","datePublished":"2022-03-04T22:56:08.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-07T20:59:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11907125 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11907125","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/04/report-reducing-voting-locations-discouraged-participation-for-californias-black-and-latino-voters-in-2020/","disqusTitle":"Report: Reducing Voting Locations 'Discouraged Participation' for California's Black and Latino Voters in 2020","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11907125/report-reducing-voting-locations-discouraged-participation-for-californias-black-and-latino-voters-in-2020","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California's move to reduce the number of in-person voting locations in the 2020 election had an outsize impact on Black and Latino voter turnout, according to a pair of reports released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analyses come as more counties are moving away from traditional assigned polling places and instead opening fewer, larger vote centers, while also sending every voter a ballot in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equity-in-voter-turnout-after-pandemic-election-policy-changes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study from the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> found that while the state's universal vote-by-mail law actually decreased the turnout gap between racial and ethnic groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837095/how-covid-19-warped-californias-election-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the simultaneous consolidation of voting locations\u003c/a> diminished those gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, California actually saw a more representative electorate in 2020 than in 2016,\" said PPIC Senior Fellow Eric McGhee, one of the report's authors, noting the impact of the mail-ballot law. \"But it wasn’t as good in the counties that did the [voting site] consolidations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b8c7ce15d5dbf599fb46ab/t/621fae5d9e646142640e7a4a/1646243427169/USC+CID+Black+Voting+Experience+in+California+Report+FINAL.pdf\">A separate report\u003c/a> from the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy found that Black voters in Black-majority census tracts were more likely than the general electorate to vote in person. And Black voters surveyed were most likely not to know about the myriad changes made to the state's voting process during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the findings show that the outreach, that the quality of the outreach, how extensive the outreach is done in counties across the state is absolutely, enormously important, and we know that outreach efforts are chronically underfunded,\" said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy, who co-authored both studies. \"Voters don’t know about all the changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's universal vote-by-mail law, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825137/state-legislature-approves-bill-to-mail-all-california-voters-a-ballot\">implemented in 2020 \u003c/a>amid COVID-19 concerns, and subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">made permanent\u003c/a>, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869522/touting-voter-turnout-vote-by-mail-advocates-seek-permanent-change-to-california-elections\">the biggest impact\u003c/a> on boosting statewide voter turnout — resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\">historically high participation\u003c/a> in the November 2020 election — an earlier PPIC study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as county officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struggled to recruit poll workers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831335/all-hands-on-deck-as-california-election-officials-struggle-to-find-pandemic-safe-polling-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find voting locations\u003c/a> that could accommodate social distancing, state lawmakers allowed them to open fewer sites if they agreed to offer extended early voting hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"voter-turnout"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Only 16 counties stuck with the traditional model of assigning each voter a polling place without consolidating precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC study found that the precinct consolidation expanded the turnout gap for Latino and Black voters, especially for Black voters who were not previously registered to vote-by-mail and were therefore not used to having a ballot arrive in their mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The in-person places were so varied across the state that people had to get used to that difference,\" said Astrid Ochoa, a public affairs consultant who advises the Secretary of State's office on changes to election administration. \"Just because you’re sending every voter a ballot, there still needs to be a strong emphasis on voter education and outreach for that practice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies grappled with the difficulty of identifying voters of different racial or ethnic groups, as most voters don't provide that information. Researchers instead analyzed registrant surnames, census block demographics and survey data to determine voter demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More changes to California's voting practices are on the horizon this year, when at least 11 additional counties — including Alameda, Marin and Sonoma — will opt in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voters-choice-act\">California's Voter's Choice Act\u003c/a>, which allows for the permanent consolidation of polling places into vote centers, where any voter in the county can cast a ballot and receive voting or language assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USC report also looked at longer-term trends in voting equity, namely that the turnout gap between Black and white voters in California has grown in recent years, even as the gap between whites and other ethnic groups has shrunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Woodson, executive director of the California Black Power Network, pointed to the long-term effects of gentrification and displacement in disrupting civic participation among Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black residents are being pushed out of traditionally urban hubs into new emerging communities that don’t necessarily have established organizing infrastructure, don’t have groups that are reaching out to engage them around elections,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USC survey found Black California voters were twice as likely to take public transportation to the polls in 2020, as compared to voters of other racial or ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say voting disparities could be further exacerbated as more Black voters move to suburban and exurban communities with fewer public transportation options and greater distances between voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in an urban center, a lot of our places are still rural,\" said Minister Quan Williams, an organizer for the Inland Empire-based Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement, or COPE. \"Even catching public transportation to a polling place might be challenging, you might have to walk in the street to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For local election officials, consolidating voting locations helps offset the cost of mailing every voter a ballot. Funding for elections was plentiful in 2020, but there's no guarantee that largess will continue in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McGhee, from PPIC, said state lawmakers should take the findings as caution that \"we need to possibly rethink some of this in-person consolidation, or at least how we do it and maybe how much we do it because of the impacts on equity.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11907125/report-reducing-voting-locations-discouraged-participation-for-californias-black-and-latino-voters-in-2020","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27540","news_17968","news_30746","news_17648","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11907152","label":"news"},"news_11844841":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11844841","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11844841","score":null,"sort":[1604254112000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nobody-is-going-to-mess-with-my-vote-in-person-voting-underway-in-california","title":"'I Don't Want My Ballot Getting Lost': Voters Bring Mail-In Ballots to Polling Places","publishDate":1604254112,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Polling places opened to voters over the weekend in the Bay Area. W\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ith much at stake in this election, many voters said they just didn’t want to leave their ballot to chance. [aside postID=\"news_11841547\" \u003ci>label=\u003c/i>\"Did you make a Mistake?\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's too important ... especially this year,\" said Jeff Robinette with his wife Flo. They dropped their mail in ballots at the Richmond Civic Center voting location. \"With all the craziness going on right now, we wanted to make sure it was at an official, preferably a county or city, building,\" Robinette said. \"It's a beautiful day. We've done our civic duty and now we're going down to Point Richmond to have breakfast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 22 million people are registered to vote in California, nearly 88% of all eligible adults. That’s the highest percentage heading into a general election in the past 80 years, according to the secretary of state’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11845096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election workers (from left) Robert Steffani and Carolyn Jones collect mail-in ballots at the Coliseum official ballot dropoff location in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond voter Abraham Rodriguez was going to use a secured drop box outside the Richmond Civic Center, until he learned that at least 29 ballots dropped there on October 12 were still unaccounted for.\u003c/span> \"I came in to the actual in-person voting place to make sure my ballot was safely in there,\" Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Dupuis, the Registrar of Voters for Alameda County said the county\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had to turn volunteers away after thousands stepped forward to fill 1,500 election worker spots. Election workers wore face shields, plastic ponchos, masks and gloves and cleaned electronic voting touch screens between voters. Those with the roll of judges had to complete a two hour in-person course followed by a 90-minute online test to be approved.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11845097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">At the Oakland Coliseum polling place, election judge Linda Zunas said she initially had concerns about volunteering because of COVID-19, but feels things are being run well. \"I was really relieved when I got assigned to the Coliseum because I know the Coliseum has good airflow, lots of space,\" Zunas said. \"We have a woman who has a compromised immune system working the drive-up drop boxes because she's thrilled she can be outside and still participate,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One voter said as far as safety is concerned, voting felt no more dangerous than going to the grocery store. \u003c/span>This year, all California voters got a ballot in the mail, part of the state’s effort to encourage people to vote remotely and avoid spreading the coronavirus. As of Sunday, more than 9.4 million people have returned their ballot, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all votes Californians cast during the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That points to a potential record-high turnout as vote centers opened in advance of Election Day on Tuesday. The 14.6 million votes cast in 2016 was the most ever in a California election. The highest percentage of registered voters to cast ballots since 1910 was 88.38% in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature agreed to let counties offer fewer polling places this year, but only if they opened them earlier. But like most things in 2020, voting in person won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registrar for one Bay Area county is reporting that registered voters are returning their ballots early — and in large numbers. Napa County Registrar John Tuteur said that as of 5 p.m. Friday, the county's Registrar of Voters office has received and processed 46,869 ballots for Tuesday's presidential election. Tuteur added that this represents 55.4% of the overall turnout of the county's registered voters to date. \"I am pleased that voters are voting safely by using their vote by mail ballots and voting early to avoid congestion on Election Day,\" he said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Krystal Bastyr, a Sacramento voter\"]'I wouldn’t mail it. I won’t even drop it in this box. I’m taking it inside,” she said. “Nobody is going to mess with my vote.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the latest numbers for Tuesday's presidential election with the last presidential election in November 2016, only 33,117 registered voters returned their ballots at this point in the election cycle, which represented a 43 percent overall turnout. Tuteur added that when the 2016 election was certified, 82.3% of the county's registered voters had cast ballots. \"If this trend continues, we could approach a 90 percent final turnout which would be the highest turnout in the past 60 years,\" Tuteur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom cast his ballot on Thursday at the Golden 1 Center, home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. \"Suppress the virus. Not the vote,\" Newsom tweeted on October 30, adding that as of the day before over 9 million ballots had been cast in California, compared to over 4 million at the same time in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1322298145762471936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the primary in March, Santa Barbara County opened 86 traditional polling places on Election Day. But this election, the county planned to have 35 consolidated polling places open on Saturday, three days ahead of Election Day. Registrar of Voters Joe Holland isn’t sure what to expect because, out of roughly 241,000 registered voters, more than 123,000 have already voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really fundamentally changing the way America votes,” he said. “The old-fashioned way of voting is history, and it’s really exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who do vote in person will be greeted by poll workers who will follow behind them to clean the equipment after they use it. It’s likely to slow down the process and could create long lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Vong puts on her 'I Voted' sticker at the Chase Center official ballot dropoff location in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials are also worried about the potential for violence, given the tense political environment this year. Businesses in Beverly Hills and some San Francisco Bay Area counties are boarding up windows and coming up with emergency plans, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A report by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project listed California as a “moderate risk” for election-related violence. [aside label=\"More 2020 Election Coverage\" tag=\"election-2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has also changed how election workers count the ballots. In a normal year, observers from campaigns and advocacy groups will look over the shoulders of election workers as they count ballots on Election Night, often sharing tight spaces. That’s not possible during a pandemic, with public health orders requiring people to stay socially distant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, observers can still watch the county this year through the eyes of a robot, affectionately nicknamed “Clyde,” purchased with the help of grant funding. County spokeswoman Janna Haynes said Clyde looks like “a tablet riding a Segway,” with its camera projecting video onto a screen in the lobby for observers to monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s pretty stealth,” Haynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters drop off their mail-in ballots at the Chase Center official ballot dropoff location on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republican President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubts about the integrity of mail-in voting, a message amplified by social media and conservative media outlets. California Republicans are working hard to boost turnout through other means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the county GOP hosted a drive-thru ballot collection on Saturday, encouraging people to show up in costume to hand over their ballots to “trained collectors” who promise to deliver their ballots to the county elections office on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Nelson (L) and Travis Strong (R) pose for a portrait after dropping off their mail-in ballots in costume at the Chase Center official drop-off location in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some counties with closely contested U.S. House races — including Orange and Los Angeles — Republicans have set up their unofficial ballot drop boxes to assuage any fears of spooked GOP voters. Secretary of State Alex Padilla initially said those boxes were illegal and ordered them removed. Republicans refused, arguing they are collecting ballots as allowed under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk is impacting some Democratic voters, including 50-year-old Krystal Bastyr, who drove her ballot to the Sacramento County elections office earlier this week to deliver it in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t mail it. I won’t even drop it in this box. I’m taking it inside,” she said. “Nobody is going to mess with my vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julia McEvoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More than 22 million people are registered to vote in California, nearly 88% of all eligible adults. That’s the highest percentage heading into a general election in the past 80 years, according to the secretary of state’s office.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1604421844,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1491},"headData":{"title":"'I Don't Want My Ballot Getting Lost': Voters Bring Mail-In Ballots to Polling Places | KQED","description":"More than 22 million people are registered to vote in California, nearly 88% of all eligible adults. 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W\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ith much at stake in this election, many voters said they just didn’t want to leave their ballot to chance. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11841547","label":"\u003ci>label=\u003c/i>\"Did you make a Mistake?\""},"numeric":["\u003ci>label=\u003c/i>\"Did","you","make","a","Mistake?\""]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's too important ... especially this year,\" said Jeff Robinette with his wife Flo. They dropped their mail in ballots at the Richmond Civic Center voting location. \"With all the craziness going on right now, we wanted to make sure it was at an official, preferably a county or city, building,\" Robinette said. \"It's a beautiful day. We've done our civic duty and now we're going down to Point Richmond to have breakfast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 22 million people are registered to vote in California, nearly 88% of all eligible adults. That’s the highest percentage heading into a general election in the past 80 years, according to the secretary of state’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11845096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11845096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45648_014_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election workers (from left) Robert Steffani and Carolyn Jones collect mail-in ballots at the Coliseum official ballot dropoff location in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richmond voter Abraham Rodriguez was going to use a secured drop box outside the Richmond Civic Center, until he learned that at least 29 ballots dropped there on October 12 were still unaccounted for.\u003c/span> \"I came in to the actual in-person voting place to make sure my ballot was safely in there,\" Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Dupuis, the Registrar of Voters for Alameda County said the county\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had to turn volunteers away after thousands stepped forward to fill 1,500 election worker spots. Election workers wore face shields, plastic ponchos, masks and gloves and cleaned electronic voting touch screens between voters. Those with the roll of judges had to complete a two hour in-person course followed by a 90-minute online test to be approved.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11845097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45652_020_KQED_Oakland_Coliseum_PollingPlace_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">At the Oakland Coliseum polling place, election judge Linda Zunas said she initially had concerns about volunteering because of COVID-19, but feels things are being run well. \"I was really relieved when I got assigned to the Coliseum because I know the Coliseum has good airflow, lots of space,\" Zunas said. \"We have a woman who has a compromised immune system working the drive-up drop boxes because she's thrilled she can be outside and still participate,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One voter said as far as safety is concerned, voting felt no more dangerous than going to the grocery store. \u003c/span>This year, all California voters got a ballot in the mail, part of the state’s effort to encourage people to vote remotely and avoid spreading the coronavirus. As of Sunday, more than 9.4 million people have returned their ballot, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all votes Californians cast during the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That points to a potential record-high turnout as vote centers opened in advance of Election Day on Tuesday. The 14.6 million votes cast in 2016 was the most ever in a California election. The highest percentage of registered voters to cast ballots since 1910 was 88.38% in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature agreed to let counties offer fewer polling places this year, but only if they opened them earlier. But like most things in 2020, voting in person won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registrar for one Bay Area county is reporting that registered voters are returning their ballots early — and in large numbers. Napa County Registrar John Tuteur said that as of 5 p.m. Friday, the county's Registrar of Voters office has received and processed 46,869 ballots for Tuesday's presidential election. Tuteur added that this represents 55.4% of the overall turnout of the county's registered voters to date. \"I am pleased that voters are voting safely by using their vote by mail ballots and voting early to avoid congestion on Election Day,\" he said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I wouldn’t mail it. I won’t even drop it in this box. I’m taking it inside,” she said. “Nobody is going to mess with my vote.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Krystal Bastyr, a Sacramento voter","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the latest numbers for Tuesday's presidential election with the last presidential election in November 2016, only 33,117 registered voters returned their ballots at this point in the election cycle, which represented a 43 percent overall turnout. Tuteur added that when the 2016 election was certified, 82.3% of the county's registered voters had cast ballots. \"If this trend continues, we could approach a 90 percent final turnout which would be the highest turnout in the past 60 years,\" Tuteur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom cast his ballot on Thursday at the Golden 1 Center, home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. \"Suppress the virus. Not the vote,\" Newsom tweeted on October 30, adding that as of the day before over 9 million ballots had been cast in California, compared to over 4 million at the same time in 2016.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1322298145762471936"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>For the primary in March, Santa Barbara County opened 86 traditional polling places on Election Day. But this election, the county planned to have 35 consolidated polling places open on Saturday, three days ahead of Election Day. Registrar of Voters Joe Holland isn’t sure what to expect because, out of roughly 241,000 registered voters, more than 123,000 have already voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really fundamentally changing the way America votes,” he said. “The old-fashioned way of voting is history, and it’s really exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who do vote in person will be greeted by poll workers who will follow behind them to clean the equipment after they use it. It’s likely to slow down the process and could create long lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844845\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45634_037_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Vong puts on her 'I Voted' sticker at the Chase Center official ballot dropoff location in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials are also worried about the potential for violence, given the tense political environment this year. Businesses in Beverly Hills and some San Francisco Bay Area counties are boarding up windows and coming up with emergency plans, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A report by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project listed California as a “moderate risk” for election-related violence. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More 2020 Election Coverage ","tag":"election-2020"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has also changed how election workers count the ballots. In a normal year, observers from campaigns and advocacy groups will look over the shoulders of election workers as they count ballots on Election Night, often sharing tight spaces. That’s not possible during a pandemic, with public health orders requiring people to stay socially distant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, observers can still watch the county this year through the eyes of a robot, affectionately nicknamed “Clyde,” purchased with the help of grant funding. County spokeswoman Janna Haynes said Clyde looks like “a tablet riding a Segway,” with its camera projecting video onto a screen in the lobby for observers to monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s pretty stealth,” Haynes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45624_027_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters drop off their mail-in ballots at the Chase Center official ballot dropoff location on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republican President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubts about the integrity of mail-in voting, a message amplified by social media and conservative media outlets. California Republicans are working hard to boost turnout through other means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, the county GOP hosted a drive-thru ballot collection on Saturday, encouraging people to show up in costume to hand over their ballots to “trained collectors” who promise to deliver their ballots to the county elections office on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS45618_016_KQED_SanFrancisco_BallotDropOff_10312020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Nelson (L) and Travis Strong (R) pose for a portrait after dropping off their mail-in ballots in costume at the Chase Center official drop-off location in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some counties with closely contested U.S. House races — including Orange and Los Angeles — Republicans have set up their unofficial ballot drop boxes to assuage any fears of spooked GOP voters. Secretary of State Alex Padilla initially said those boxes were illegal and ordered them removed. Republicans refused, arguing they are collecting ballots as allowed under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talk is impacting some Democratic voters, including 50-year-old Krystal Bastyr, who drove her ballot to the Sacramento County elections office earlier this week to deliver it in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t mail it. I won’t even drop it in this box. I’m taking it inside,” she said. “Nobody is going to mess with my vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julia McEvoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11844841/nobody-is-going-to-mess-with-my-vote-in-person-voting-underway-in-california","authors":["byline_news_11844841"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1386","news_18538","news_27370","news_2520","news_17968","news_17648","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11845095","label":"news"},"news_11842972":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11842972","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11842972","score":null,"sort":[1603232589000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"regular-voters-are-casting-ballots-already-progressive-groups-are-eyeing-whos-left","title":"Regular Voters Are Casting Ballots Already. Progressive Groups Are Eyeing Who’s Left","publishDate":1603232589,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With less two weeks left before Election Day, nearly 4 million Californians have already voted — and groups on the left, who are committed to expanding the electorate by bringing in more people of color and younger voters, are hoping 2020 will be a banner year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, experts say, it looks like those turning in ballots early are people who would have voted in the past anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a silver lining for those hoping to expand the electorate: Those early votes from high propensity voters mean campaigns now have more time to focus on motivating lower propensity voters in the final days of this election. And some grassroots groups say that’s exactly the playbook they are following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, for example, the independent expenditure group L.A. Voice Action is supporting progressive candidates in the contentious district attorney’s race and one of the county supervisor’s races. This year, L.A. Voice Action is targeting 50,000 voters in Los Angeles County with a fundamental change in strategy from how campaigns have traditionally operated. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tina McKinnor, director of civic engagement for L.A. Voice Action\"]'We've hired about 100 phone bankers ... Most of these phone bankers are previously incarcerated folks. These are some of the best phone bankers that I've ever worked with because they're passionate.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference? They aren’t just calling voters who have voted in the past — they’re also reaching out to people they hope will vote for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've worked on many campaigns,” said Tina McKinnor, the group’s director of civic engagement. Traditionally, she said, those campaigns “call the folks that voted in the last three to five elections because, you know, marketing. If you go by marketing, those are the people who vote. So that's where you put your money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, her group — which is funded by the statewide California Donor Table — is making a point this year to reach out to people who didn’t vote in years past, and to have people who live in those communities do that outreach. She’s hoping it will be a “gamechanger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've hired about 100 phone bankers,” McKinnor said. “Most of these phone bankers are previously incarcerated folks. These are some of the best phone bankers that I've ever worked with because they're passionate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinnor, a former legislative staffer who has worked on state and national races, said the effort seems to be working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That type of targeting could make a big difference, agreed Paul Mitchell, vice president of the voter data company Political Data Inc., which works with both Republicans and Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But based on who’s turned in their ballots so far, the electorate doesn’t look that different than it has in years past, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing a lot of the same people that we expected to vote just vote earlier. It's still an open question as to whether or not these unlikely voters are going to make it to the polls,” he said, noting that seniors are outpacing other age groups in early ballots returns, and that Latino voters are underrepresented among those who have already voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Mitchell said, this early voting provides groups like L.A. Voice Action a real opportunity to “cost-effectively turn out their voters,” by using targeted messaging to communicate with less likely voters in the final days through means such as text messages and digital ads — and ignore those who have already cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It essentially takes a bunch of voters off of the playing field and allows them to focus more intently on those voters who might be lower turnout,” he said. “Any campaign would want to have those votes in the bank so that ... your resources can be used a lot more effectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like L.A. Voice Action and others funded by the California Donor Table need to carefully target voters, because they’re not only focusing on races between Republicans and Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local races, for example, are often nonpartisan, said Ludovic Blain, executive director of California Donor Table, while California’s top-two voting system can pit candidates of the same party against one another in the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very hard to be an informed voter in California,” he said, “unlike in other places where you might be able to use identity and party ID as a shorthand for who is the most progressive candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"MORE ELECTION COVERAGE\"] That means his group — which aims to improve communities of color by getting progressives elected — isn’t just interested in electing Democrats or people of color candidates. In Los Angeles, for example, they have put $2.25 million into supporting George Gascon, who is Cuban American, against current District Attorney Jackie Lacey — a Black, female Democrat. And they’ve put $1.3 million behind state Sen. Holly Mitchell, who’s running against a fellow Black Democrat, former City Councilman Herb Wesson, in a race for county supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County voter Wanza Tolliver is supporting Gascon in the D.A. race, and already sent in her ballot. The head of the Lawndale Democratic Club and a small business owner, Tolliver said she is hoping to have more conversations with friends and neighbors in these final weeks to encourage them to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just keep asking, ‘Hey, do you need help? How can I help you?’” she said. “I want to make sure that they're getting their ballot out and that they’re voting. It’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, the voter data expert, said he does expect California to break records this year. He noted that 85% of eligible voters are now registered — the highest percentage in a century — and predicted that turnout could reach as high as 78% among those registered voters. In contrast, turnout was 75% among registered voters in California in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth] But, he said, campaigns on both sides of the aisle will have to work hard in these final days to make sure their voters are the ones coming out, because so far, Democrats have been outpacing Republicans in ballots returned. That’s a change from years past, he said, when GOP voters were more likely to vote by mail, and send in their ballots early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably is due to the fact that there's this polarization in how people want to vote based on if they’re Team Red or Team Blue,” he said, noting that Democrats have been pushing their base to vote by mail and do so early, while President Trump has appealed to Republicans to vote in person and cast unsubstantiated doubt on the security of voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So don’t be surprised, Mitchell said, if Democrats ballot advantage shrinks as Election Day draws nearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There’s a silver lining for those hoping to expand the electorate: Those early votes from high propensity voters mean campaigns now have more time to focus on motivating lower propensity voters in the final days of this election. 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And some grassroots groups say that’s exactly the playbook they are following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, for example, the independent expenditure group L.A. Voice Action is supporting progressive candidates in the contentious district attorney’s race and one of the county supervisor’s races. This year, L.A. Voice Action is targeting 50,000 voters in Los Angeles County with a fundamental change in strategy from how campaigns have traditionally operated. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We've hired about 100 phone bankers ... Most of these phone bankers are previously incarcerated folks. These are some of the best phone bankers that I've ever worked with because they're passionate.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tina McKinnor, director of civic engagement for L.A. 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She’s hoping it will be a “gamechanger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've hired about 100 phone bankers,” McKinnor said. “Most of these phone bankers are previously incarcerated folks. These are some of the best phone bankers that I've ever worked with because they're passionate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinnor, a former legislative staffer who has worked on state and national races, said the effort seems to be working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That type of targeting could make a big difference, agreed Paul Mitchell, vice president of the voter data company Political Data Inc., which works with both Republicans and Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But based on who’s turned in their ballots so far, the electorate doesn’t look that different than it has in years past, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're seeing a lot of the same people that we expected to vote just vote earlier. It's still an open question as to whether or not these unlikely voters are going to make it to the polls,” he said, noting that seniors are outpacing other age groups in early ballots returns, and that Latino voters are underrepresented among those who have already voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Mitchell said, this early voting provides groups like L.A. Voice Action a real opportunity to “cost-effectively turn out their voters,” by using targeted messaging to communicate with less likely voters in the final days through means such as text messages and digital ads — and ignore those who have already cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It essentially takes a bunch of voters off of the playing field and allows them to focus more intently on those voters who might be lower turnout,” he said. “Any campaign would want to have those votes in the bank so that ... your resources can be used a lot more effectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like L.A. Voice Action and others funded by the California Donor Table need to carefully target voters, because they’re not only focusing on races between Republicans and Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local races, for example, are often nonpartisan, said Ludovic Blain, executive director of California Donor Table, while California’s top-two voting system can pit candidates of the same party against one another in the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very hard to be an informed voter in California,” he said, “unlike in other places where you might be able to use identity and party ID as a shorthand for who is the most progressive candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"election-2020","label":"MORE ELECTION COVERAGE "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> That means his group — which aims to improve communities of color by getting progressives elected — isn’t just interested in electing Democrats or people of color candidates. In Los Angeles, for example, they have put $2.25 million into supporting George Gascon, who is Cuban American, against current District Attorney Jackie Lacey — a Black, female Democrat. And they’ve put $1.3 million behind state Sen. Holly Mitchell, who’s running against a fellow Black Democrat, former City Councilman Herb Wesson, in a race for county supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County voter Wanza Tolliver is supporting Gascon in the D.A. race, and already sent in her ballot. The head of the Lawndale Democratic Club and a small business owner, Tolliver said she is hoping to have more conversations with friends and neighbors in these final weeks to encourage them to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just keep asking, ‘Hey, do you need help? How can I help you?’” she said. “I want to make sure that they're getting their ballot out and that they’re voting. It’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, the voter data expert, said he does expect California to break records this year. He noted that 85% of eligible voters are now registered — the highest percentage in a century — and predicted that turnout could reach as high as 78% among those registered voters. In contrast, turnout was 75% among registered voters in California in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> But, he said, campaigns on both sides of the aisle will have to work hard in these final days to make sure their voters are the ones coming out, because so far, Democrats have been outpacing Republicans in ballots returned. That’s a change from years past, he said, when GOP voters were more likely to vote by mail, and send in their ballots early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably is due to the fact that there's this polarization in how people want to vote based on if they’re Team Red or Team Blue,” he said, noting that Democrats have been pushing their base to vote by mail and do so early, while President Trump has appealed to Republicans to vote in person and cast unsubstantiated doubt on the security of voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So don’t be surprised, Mitchell said, if Democrats ballot advantage shrinks as Election Day draws nearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11842972/regular-voters-are-casting-ballots-already-progressive-groups-are-eyeing-whos-left","authors":["3239"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27370","news_28689","news_17968","news_19319","news_17648"],"featImg":"news_11842977","label":"news"},"news_11736841":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11736841","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11736841","score":null,"sort":[1554060165000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"diminishing-returns-is-california-running-out-of-ways-to-lead-voters-to-the-polls","title":"Diminishing Returns: Is California Running Out of Ways to Lead Voters to the Polls?","publishDate":1554060165,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>This Tuesday, voters in Long Beach turned out to elect a new state senator. Odds are that’s news to you—even if you happen to live in Long Beach. A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LACountyRRCC/status/1110787717468585990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preliminary tally \u003c/a> indicates that less than a measly 7 percent of the district’s registered voters cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even by the subdued standards of an off-year state Senate special election, single-digit turnout marks a historic low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps unsurprisingly, some Democratic legislators in California—a state that already makes it easier to vote than almost any other—are trying to make it even easier. Assemblyman Evan Low, a Silicon Valley Democrat, is the latest to take up that cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low's bill\u003c/a> would make election day a state holiday, giving the day off to state employees and closing schools and college campuses. Supporters say the holiday would allow more schools to serve as polling stations and let college students volunteer as poll workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other states are looking at increasing barriers to entry,” said Low, noting the recent proliferation of state voter ID laws. “We do the opposite in California. We believe that we are a stronger democracy by having more people participate in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low has also proposed changing the state constitution to allow 17-year-olds to vote. If it passes the Legislature by a two-thirds margin, it would require voter approval—assuming it survives any \u003ca href=\"http://scocablog.com/lowering-the-voting-age-in-california-possible-but-not-without-problems/#_edn15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal challenges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such proposals have become an increasingly easy political sell here. With President Donald Trump and other Republicans using \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/valid-voter-fraud-complaints-in-california-dozens-not-millions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsupported claims\u003c/a> of widespread voter fraud to call for new restrictions on the franchise, voting rights have become a rallying cry for California Democrats. Whatever they can do to amplify turnout among “low propensity” voters—statistically those who are young, low-income and Latino—generally happens to work to the Democrats’ electoral advantage too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the evidence is still out as to whether these measures have a significant effect on voter behavior one way or the other. And given the political and legal challenges facing this year’s latest round of proposals, state lawmakers may have run out of obstacles to knock down between the California voter and the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11736843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-800x1036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-800x1036.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-1020x1320.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-927x1200.jpg 927w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-1920x2486.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/elj.2017.0478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One study\u003c/a> that took into account registration restrictions, the presence of voter ID laws and automatic voter registration programs anointed California the third easiest state for voting. Only Oregon and Colorado make it easier—and the researchers did not even account for some of California’s most recent reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California allows would-be voters to register on Election Day, to vote well before an election and to so by mail, and to pre-register as long as they will turn 18 by election day. More than 200,000 \u003ca href=\"http://files.constantcontact.com/c1d64240601/6f7f450a-8fd1-427f-b937-9495f9fd0dfe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teenagers pre-registered\u003c/a> in the lead up to last year’s election, according to the Secretary of State’s office. The state also pays the postage on mail-in ballots and automatically registers eligible voters when they visit the DMV (in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/the-one-thing-the-california-dmv-does-make-it-easy-to-do/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theory\u003c/a>, anyway).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the various policy levers that lawmakers can pull to make it easier to vote, Kati Phillips, spokesperson for the voter-rights advocacy group Common Cause California, identified the most effective: automatic voter registration, early voting and wide-scale vote-by-mail programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described Low’s proposal as “a cherry on top,” though maybe “not dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Highton, a political scientist at UC Davis, is a little more skeptical. He says that the time, hassle and other “costs” of voting are “contributing factors” to turnout—but they’re relatively small ones. Same-day registration might boost turnout by “five percentage points or less typically,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional changes to election law are likely to produce diminishing election returns, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When costs are small,” he added, “you can’t reduce them that much more and the explanation for lack of higher participation is more on the benefit side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it’s possible that most non-voters in California eschew voting not because the process is difficult, but because they don’t see the value in doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a much tougher problem for policymakers to solve,” said Highton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some evidence to back up Highton’s claim. In the Cooperative Congressional \u003ca href=\"https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910/DVN/ZSBZ7K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Study survey\u003c/a> conducted after the 2018 midterm elections, just over 1 in 10 nonvoting Californians said they stayed away from the polls because they were either “too busy” or faced overly long lines at polling places—time constraints that might be solved with a holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law also guarantees employees two-hours paid time off to go the polls and gives voters the ability to register to vote my mail online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 45 percent of non-voters said they either didn’t know enough, didn’t like their choices, had no interest, simply forgot or were not registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible reason for lower turnout, said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at UC San Diego, is voter fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11736847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-800x1103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-800x1103.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-1020x1406.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-871x1200.jpg 871w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-1920x2646.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas voters in parliamentary democracies might only vote for one party over another a few times every decade, Californians are invited to vote in primaries, special elections and general elections, and are expected to puzzle over byzantine initiative language and determine who might make the best city auditor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kousser put it: “There’s almost no profession you can have that would fully qualify you to vote down a California ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Kousser and Highton are part of a group of University of California researchers studying the effects of California’s recently implemented automatic voter registration program. They say it’s still too early to draw any conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California aside, Kousser noted that the United States is still a relatively tough place to vote compared to most economically developed democracies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Australians and Belgians, for example, can be fined if they don’t show up to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re so far behind the starting line of other modern democracies that elected officials in states like California...are always looking for ways to motivate people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Sacramento, the effort to ensure that voting is easy enough may have already peaked. Bills to establish an election day holiday have been introduced three times in the Legislature—twice by Low. Both of Low’s past efforts have been left to die in the Assembly appropriations committee, reflecting the fact that even his Democratic colleagues worry it might not be worth the cost and disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Weber, a Democratic Assemblywoman from San Diego, expressed those concerns during the bill’s first committee hearing earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the various ways in which California law already makes it convenient to vote, she wondered “whether it’s necessary at this point.” She nevertheless voted for the proposal, as did the other Democrats on the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Low, a holiday is not simply about removing yet another impediment to voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting aside a day to “to stop and pause” would provide “an opportunity to focus everyone’s attention on civic engagement and reinforce the importance of voting,” he said. “There’s nothing more American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The state is ranked third in the country for voter ease, yet still struggles with voter participation. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1554060165,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1266},"headData":{"title":"Diminishing Returns: Is California Running Out of Ways to Lead Voters to the Polls? | KQED","description":"The state is ranked third in the country for voter ease, yet still struggles with voter participation. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Diminishing Returns: Is California Running Out of Ways to Lead Voters to the Polls?","datePublished":"2019-03-31T19:22:45.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-31T19:22:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11736841 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11736841","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/31/diminishing-returns-is-california-running-out-of-ways-to-lead-voters-to-the-polls/","disqusTitle":"Diminishing Returns: Is California Running Out of Ways to Lead Voters to the Polls?","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org","nprByline":"Ben Christopher, CALmatters","path":"/news/11736841/diminishing-returns-is-california-running-out-of-ways-to-lead-voters-to-the-polls","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This Tuesday, voters in Long Beach turned out to elect a new state senator. Odds are that’s news to you—even if you happen to live in Long Beach. A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LACountyRRCC/status/1110787717468585990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preliminary tally \u003c/a> indicates that less than a measly 7 percent of the district’s registered voters cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even by the subdued standards of an off-year state Senate special election, single-digit turnout marks a historic low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps unsurprisingly, some Democratic legislators in California—a state that already makes it easier to vote than almost any other—are trying to make it even easier. Assemblyman Evan Low, a Silicon Valley Democrat, is the latest to take up that cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low's bill\u003c/a> would make election day a state holiday, giving the day off to state employees and closing schools and college campuses. Supporters say the holiday would allow more schools to serve as polling stations and let college students volunteer as poll workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other states are looking at increasing barriers to entry,” said Low, noting the recent proliferation of state voter ID laws. “We do the opposite in California. We believe that we are a stronger democracy by having more people participate in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low has also proposed changing the state constitution to allow 17-year-olds to vote. If it passes the Legislature by a two-thirds margin, it would require voter approval—assuming it survives any \u003ca href=\"http://scocablog.com/lowering-the-voting-age-in-california-possible-but-not-without-problems/#_edn15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal challenges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such proposals have become an increasingly easy political sell here. With President Donald Trump and other Republicans using \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/valid-voter-fraud-complaints-in-california-dozens-not-millions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsupported claims\u003c/a> of widespread voter fraud to call for new restrictions on the franchise, voting rights have become a rallying cry for California Democrats. Whatever they can do to amplify turnout among “low propensity” voters—statistically those who are young, low-income and Latino—generally happens to work to the Democrats’ electoral advantage too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the evidence is still out as to whether these measures have a significant effect on voter behavior one way or the other. And given the political and legal challenges facing this year’s latest round of proposals, state lawmakers may have run out of obstacles to knock down between the California voter and the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11736843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-800x1036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-800x1036.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-1020x1320.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-927x1200.jpg 927w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2-1920x2486.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-image2.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/elj.2017.0478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One study\u003c/a> that took into account registration restrictions, the presence of voter ID laws and automatic voter registration programs anointed California the third easiest state for voting. Only Oregon and Colorado make it easier—and the researchers did not even account for some of California’s most recent reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California allows would-be voters to register on Election Day, to vote well before an election and to so by mail, and to pre-register as long as they will turn 18 by election day. More than 200,000 \u003ca href=\"http://files.constantcontact.com/c1d64240601/6f7f450a-8fd1-427f-b937-9495f9fd0dfe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teenagers pre-registered\u003c/a> in the lead up to last year’s election, according to the Secretary of State’s office. The state also pays the postage on mail-in ballots and automatically registers eligible voters when they visit the DMV (in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/the-one-thing-the-california-dmv-does-make-it-easy-to-do/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theory\u003c/a>, anyway).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the various policy levers that lawmakers can pull to make it easier to vote, Kati Phillips, spokesperson for the voter-rights advocacy group Common Cause California, identified the most effective: automatic voter registration, early voting and wide-scale vote-by-mail programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described Low’s proposal as “a cherry on top,” though maybe “not dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Highton, a political scientist at UC Davis, is a little more skeptical. He says that the time, hassle and other “costs” of voting are “contributing factors” to turnout—but they’re relatively small ones. Same-day registration might boost turnout by “five percentage points or less typically,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional changes to election law are likely to produce diminishing election returns, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When costs are small,” he added, “you can’t reduce them that much more and the explanation for lack of higher participation is more on the benefit side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it’s possible that most non-voters in California eschew voting not because the process is difficult, but because they don’t see the value in doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a much tougher problem for policymakers to solve,” said Highton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some evidence to back up Highton’s claim. In the Cooperative Congressional \u003ca href=\"https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910/DVN/ZSBZ7K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Study survey\u003c/a> conducted after the 2018 midterm elections, just over 1 in 10 nonvoting Californians said they stayed away from the polls because they were either “too busy” or faced overly long lines at polling places—time constraints that might be solved with a holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law also guarantees employees two-hours paid time off to go the polls and gives voters the ability to register to vote my mail online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, 45 percent of non-voters said they either didn’t know enough, didn’t like their choices, had no interest, simply forgot or were not registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible reason for lower turnout, said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at UC San Diego, is voter fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11736847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-800x1103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-800x1103.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-160x221.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-1020x1406.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-871x1200.jpg 871w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue-1920x2646.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/CalMatters-ELECTION-HOLIDAY-fatigue.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas voters in parliamentary democracies might only vote for one party over another a few times every decade, Californians are invited to vote in primaries, special elections and general elections, and are expected to puzzle over byzantine initiative language and determine who might make the best city auditor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kousser put it: “There’s almost no profession you can have that would fully qualify you to vote down a California ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Kousser and Highton are part of a group of University of California researchers studying the effects of California’s recently implemented automatic voter registration program. They say it’s still too early to draw any conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California aside, Kousser noted that the United States is still a relatively tough place to vote compared to most economically developed democracies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Australians and Belgians, for example, can be fined if they don’t show up to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re so far behind the starting line of other modern democracies that elected officials in states like California...are always looking for ways to motivate people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Sacramento, the effort to ensure that voting is easy enough may have already peaked. Bills to establish an election day holiday have been introduced three times in the Legislature—twice by Low. Both of Low’s past efforts have been left to die in the Assembly appropriations committee, reflecting the fact that even his Democratic colleagues worry it might not be worth the cost and disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirley Weber, a Democratic Assemblywoman from San Diego, expressed those concerns during the bill’s first committee hearing earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the various ways in which California law already makes it convenient to vote, she wondered “whether it’s necessary at this point.” She nevertheless voted for the proposal, as did the other Democrats on the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Low, a holiday is not simply about removing yet another impediment to voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting aside a day to “to stop and pause” would provide “an opportunity to focus everyone’s attention on civic engagement and reinforce the importance of voting,” he said. “There’s nothing more American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11736841/diminishing-returns-is-california-running-out-of-ways-to-lead-voters-to-the-polls","authors":["byline_news_11736841"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_23420","news_6406","news_20572","news_17648","news_24432"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11704077","label":"source_news_11736841"},"news_11707109":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11707109","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11707109","score":null,"sort":[1542487074000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voter-turnout-sets-recent-record-for-a-midterm","title":"California Voter Turnout Sets Recent Record for a Midterm","publishDate":1542487074,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Preliminary projections Friday show nearly two-thirds of the state's registered voters cast ballots in last week's election, a recent record for a non-presidential general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials estimate that about 12.8 million ballots were cast by the record 19.7 million Californians who registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts turnout at nearly 65 percent. It's the highest for any gubernatorial election in California since at least 2006. It's much higher than the last midterm election in 2014, when turnout was a record low 42 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout was about 60 percent in 2010 and 56 percent in 2006 during other gubernatorial election years. It topped 75 percent during the presidential election two years ago, and 72 percent in 2012. The recent record was nearly 80 percent in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California secretary of state reported Friday that more than 10 million ballots have been tallied so far. County officials estimated nearly 2.7 million remained uncounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winners in some close races might not be determined for weeks. California has a high percentage of mail voters, which slows counting because officials take additional steps to verify and process mail ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-day registration will likely also slow results in California. Ballots from Californians who registered conditionally Election Day or in the days leading up to it take longer to count because officials must first verify those voters' eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout was high throughout the country. An analysis of preliminary data compiled by The Associated Press estimates that this midterm saw the highest raw vote total for a non-presidential election in U.S. history and the highest overall voter participation rate in a midterm election in 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four in five eligible Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704071/with-registration-at-all-time-high-california-voters-head-to-the-polls\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were registered to vote\u003c/a> heading into the election, the largest share of the eligible population heading into a gubernatorial election in almost 70 years, according to the secretary of state's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among that group, there were significant disparities, said Mindy Romero, director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the University of Southern California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101868073/200000-california-teens-register-to-vote\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Young people\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latinos\u003c/a> and Asians were registered at a lower rate than older, white voters, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early voters tend to skew older, conservative and white, so turnout for younger, liberal and nonwhite voters could increase as results trickle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Final turnout numbers won't be available until election results are certified next month.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Preliminary projections show nearly two-thirds of California registered voters cast ballots in last week's election, a recent record for a non-presidential general election.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1542487074,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":398},"headData":{"title":"California Voter Turnout Sets Recent Record for a Midterm | KQED","description":"Preliminary projections show nearly two-thirds of California registered voters cast ballots in last week's election, a recent record for a non-presidential general election.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Voter Turnout Sets Recent Record for a Midterm","datePublished":"2018-11-17T20:37:54.000Z","dateModified":"2018-11-17T20:37:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11707109 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11707109","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/17/california-voter-turnout-sets-recent-record-for-a-midterm/","disqusTitle":"California Voter Turnout Sets Recent Record for a Midterm","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Sophia Bollag\u003c/br>Associated Press","path":"/news/11707109/california-voter-turnout-sets-recent-record-for-a-midterm","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Preliminary projections Friday show nearly two-thirds of the state's registered voters cast ballots in last week's election, a recent record for a non-presidential general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials estimate that about 12.8 million ballots were cast by the record 19.7 million Californians who registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts turnout at nearly 65 percent. It's the highest for any gubernatorial election in California since at least 2006. It's much higher than the last midterm election in 2014, when turnout was a record low 42 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout was about 60 percent in 2010 and 56 percent in 2006 during other gubernatorial election years. It topped 75 percent during the presidential election two years ago, and 72 percent in 2012. The recent record was nearly 80 percent in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California secretary of state reported Friday that more than 10 million ballots have been tallied so far. County officials estimated nearly 2.7 million remained uncounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winners in some close races might not be determined for weeks. California has a high percentage of mail voters, which slows counting because officials take additional steps to verify and process mail ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-day registration will likely also slow results in California. Ballots from Californians who registered conditionally Election Day or in the days leading up to it take longer to count because officials must first verify those voters' eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout was high throughout the country. An analysis of preliminary data compiled by The Associated Press estimates that this midterm saw the highest raw vote total for a non-presidential election in U.S. history and the highest overall voter participation rate in a midterm election in 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four in five eligible Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704071/with-registration-at-all-time-high-california-voters-head-to-the-polls\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were registered to vote\u003c/a> heading into the election, the largest share of the eligible population heading into a gubernatorial election in almost 70 years, according to the secretary of state's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among that group, there were significant disparities, said Mindy Romero, director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the University of Southern California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101868073/200000-california-teens-register-to-vote\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Young people\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697624/why-is-it-so-hard-to-engage-latino-voters-theyre-young-and-historically-neglected\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latinos\u003c/a> and Asians were registered at a lower rate than older, white voters, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early voters tend to skew older, conservative and white, so turnout for younger, liberal and nonwhite voters could increase as results trickle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Final turnout numbers won't be available until election results are certified next month.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11707109/california-voter-turnout-sets-recent-record-for-a-midterm","authors":["byline_news_11707109"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20191","news_17041","news_20572","news_17648"],"featImg":"news_11707110","label":"source_news_11707109"},"news_11679849":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11679849","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11679849","score":null,"sort":[1531321547000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"turnout-climbed-to-37-percent-in-californias-primary-heres-the-who-where-and-why","title":"Turnout Climbed to 37 Percent in California’s Primary — Here’s the Who, Where and Why","publishDate":1531321547,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Give yourself a round of applause, California. For a decade, voter participation during midterm primary elections has been slipping down and down. Last time around, in 2014, the state hit an all-time low for voter apathy: Only one in four registered voters bothered to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this June, we broke the trend. With all ballots counted (finally), a little over 37 percent of those registered to do so got out to vote. (The Secretary of State’s Office has a few more days to finalize the numbers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript id=\"infogram_0__/Js2MVrKCDojDYv3772fp\" title=\"Turnout Map\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed.js?mzL\" type=\"text/javascript\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, 37 percent might not seem like a triumph of civic participation. But it’s all relative. Getting voters to turn out during off-year elections, when a presidential candidate isn’t on the ballot, has always been a tough sell. Doubly so during primaries — which many voters evidently consider a skippable dry run before the main event in November. This year’s participation rate marks a 10-year high for midterm primaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript id=\"infogram_0_3f2ab42a-e5fe-48a6-b117-dfc7e4744df6\" title=\"Primary Turnout\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed.js?u4e\" type=\"text/javascript\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the increase? Was it enthusiasm about the gubernatorial standoff between Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox? Excitement about the first viable political independent running for statewide office, in Steve Poizner? Were water conservationists inspired to turn out en masse to support Proposition 72, which changed the way that rainwater collection systems are taxed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably not, said David McCuan, a political scientist at Sonoma State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Trump factor loomed large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular ballot was not all that sexy,” he said. “The reason for the higher turnout is because of what’s going on in Washington, D.C., not what’s happening in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s largely borne out by the numbers. Some of the biggest increases in turnout relative to the 2014 midterm primary were in areas with the most competitive congressional races. Orange County as a whole saw a 19 percentage point increase in turnout\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoom in to the level of Assembly district, and the two areas that saw that biggest bump hug the coast between Dana Point and northern San Diego County. That’s home to two congressional seats that Democrats hope to flip this November. Prior to election day, it was ground zero of millions of dollars in advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts. Both districts saw turnout spikes of over 20 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That surge in voter enthusiasm “was a little bit of a surprise, but not unexpected,” said Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local factors did play a role in some cases. San Francisco, for example, also saw a significant turnout increase. There weren’t any competitive congressional races there. But there was a nail-biter mayoral election that drew national headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the higher-than-expected turnout, the composition of the electorate may not have changed much. In California, voters tend to skew older, whiter and more affluent — especially in midterm elections — and there isn’t much evidence thus far that changed this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript id=\"infogram_0_223efbc4-f2fd-4836-b16e-6de48fa52af3\" title=\"Turnout\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed.js?H1d\" type=\"text/javascript\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the data show: Districts with higher rates of poverty or with a higher population of people who do not speak English very well tended to vote less. Districts where more residents identified as white and non-Latino tended to vote more. Those stats describe districts, not individuals — there are, of course, exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"“This particular ballot was not all that sexy,” political scientist David McCuan said. “The reason for the higher turnout is because of what’s going on in Washington, D.C., not what’s happening in California.”","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1531355332,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":562},"headData":{"title":"Turnout Climbed to 37 Percent in California’s Primary — Here’s the Who, Where and Why | KQED","description":"“This particular ballot was not all that sexy,” political scientist David McCuan said. “The reason for the higher turnout is because of what’s going on in Washington, D.C., not what’s happening in California.”","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Turnout Climbed to 37 Percent in California’s Primary — Here’s the Who, Where and Why","datePublished":"2018-07-11T15:05:47.000Z","dateModified":"2018-07-12T00:28:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11679849 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11679849","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/07/11/turnout-climbed-to-37-percent-in-californias-primary-heres-the-who-where-and-why/","disqusTitle":"Turnout Climbed to 37 Percent in California’s Primary — Here’s the Who, Where and Why","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/author/ben-christopher/\">Ben Christopher\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CALmatters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11679849/turnout-climbed-to-37-percent-in-californias-primary-heres-the-who-where-and-why","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Give yourself a round of applause, California. For a decade, voter participation during midterm primary elections has been slipping down and down. Last time around, in 2014, the state hit an all-time low for voter apathy: Only one in four registered voters bothered to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this June, we broke the trend. With all ballots counted (finally), a little over 37 percent of those registered to do so got out to vote. (The Secretary of State’s Office has a few more days to finalize the numbers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript id=\"infogram_0__/Js2MVrKCDojDYv3772fp\" title=\"Turnout Map\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed.js?mzL\" type=\"text/javascript\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, 37 percent might not seem like a triumph of civic participation. But it’s all relative. Getting voters to turn out during off-year elections, when a presidential candidate isn’t on the ballot, has always been a tough sell. Doubly so during primaries — which many voters evidently consider a skippable dry run before the main event in November. This year’s participation rate marks a 10-year high for midterm primaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript id=\"infogram_0_3f2ab42a-e5fe-48a6-b117-dfc7e4744df6\" title=\"Primary Turnout\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed.js?u4e\" type=\"text/javascript\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why the increase? Was it enthusiasm about the gubernatorial standoff between Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox? Excitement about the first viable political independent running for statewide office, in Steve Poizner? Were water conservationists inspired to turn out en masse to support Proposition 72, which changed the way that rainwater collection systems are taxed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably not, said David McCuan, a political scientist at Sonoma State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Trump factor loomed large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular ballot was not all that sexy,” he said. “The reason for the higher turnout is because of what’s going on in Washington, D.C., not what’s happening in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s largely borne out by the numbers. Some of the biggest increases in turnout relative to the 2014 midterm primary were in areas with the most competitive congressional races. Orange County as a whole saw a 19 percentage point increase in turnout\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoom in to the level of Assembly district, and the two areas that saw that biggest bump hug the coast between Dana Point and northern San Diego County. That’s home to two congressional seats that Democrats hope to flip this November. Prior to election day, it was ground zero of millions of dollars in advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts. Both districts saw turnout spikes of over 20 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That surge in voter enthusiasm “was a little bit of a surprise, but not unexpected,” said Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local factors did play a role in some cases. San Francisco, for example, also saw a significant turnout increase. There weren’t any competitive congressional races there. But there was a nail-biter mayoral election that drew national headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the higher-than-expected turnout, the composition of the electorate may not have changed much. In California, voters tend to skew older, whiter and more affluent — especially in midterm elections — and there isn’t much evidence thus far that changed this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript id=\"infogram_0_223efbc4-f2fd-4836-b16e-6de48fa52af3\" title=\"Turnout\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed.js?H1d\" type=\"text/javascript\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the data show: Districts with higher rates of poverty or with a higher population of people who do not speak English very well tended to vote less. Districts where more residents identified as white and non-Latino tended to vote more. Those stats describe districts, not individuals — there are, of course, exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11679849/turnout-climbed-to-37-percent-in-californias-primary-heres-the-who-where-and-why","authors":["byline_news_11679849"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20191","news_17648"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11679861","label":"source_news_11679849"},"news_11636872":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11636872","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11636872","score":null,"sort":[1513282679000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"big-win-in-alabama-buoys-democratic-hopes-for-the-midterm-elections","title":"Big Win in Alabama Buoys Democratic Hopes for Midterm Elections","publishDate":1513282679,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://lee.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay congresswoman Barbara Lee\u003c/a> (D-Oakland) says she’s hopeful Democrats can replicate Tuesday's African-American voter turnout in Alabama’s Senate race to win back the House from the GOP next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election demonstrates that if you don’t take the black vote for granted and if you speak to the issues and organize -- African-Americans will vote,” said Lee, a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://cbc.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Black Caucus.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a stunning victory, Democrat Doug Jones eked out a win in Alabama over Roy Moore -- turning a red Senate seat blue for the first time in a quarter-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black voters represented 29 percent of Alabama’s electorate in the special election, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/?utm_term=.3805ec16e20f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exit polling by the Washington Post\u003c/a>. And they turned out in higher numbers than is customary for an off-year election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 96 percent of black Alabamians who turned out voted for Doug Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those ballots helped propel the Democrat to victory over Moore -- who was dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct, including child molestation. The result is also seen as a defeat for President Trump, who campaigned for Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee says black voters “were on the right side of history and the moral side of this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans may also have been drawn to Jones because of his background. A former U.S. attorney, Jones prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, in which four African-American girls were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, even with the victory, the Democratic Party has still been taking heat. Some African-Americans, including former NBA player and native Alabamian Charles Barkley, called the election\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/charles-barkley-doug-jones-cnn-tv/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a wake-up call for the Democratic Party\u003c/a> “for taking the black vote and the poor for granted.” It’s time for Democrats to “get off their ass,” said Barkley, “and start making life better for black voters and people who are poor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.democrats.org/organization/the-democratic-national-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic National Committee\u003c/a>, concedes the Democratic Party does have work to do. She says the party has been engaged in “soul searching” following some recent losses to the GOP. The key, Lee said, is for candidates to address issues that the black community cares about, such as income inequality and mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay congresswoman says the issue of sexual harassment, recently dominating the national conversation, speaks to black women in particular -- adding that the “MeToo” movement likely played a role in mobilizing black women against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knows the issues of sexual harassment any better than African-American women, given the history of slavery,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 98 percent of ballots cast by black women went for Jones.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Congresswoman Barbara Lee says the Democratic Party needs to stop taking the black vote for granted. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1513291209,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":471},"headData":{"title":"Big Win in Alabama Buoys Democratic Hopes for Midterm Elections | KQED","description":"Congresswoman Barbara Lee says the Democratic Party needs to stop taking the black vote for granted. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Big Win in Alabama Buoys Democratic Hopes for Midterm Elections","datePublished":"2017-12-14T20:17:59.000Z","dateModified":"2017-12-14T22:40:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11636872 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11636872","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/14/big-win-in-alabama-buoys-democratic-hopes-for-the-midterm-elections/","disqusTitle":"Big Win in Alabama Buoys Democratic Hopes for Midterm Elections","path":"/news/11636872/big-win-in-alabama-buoys-democratic-hopes-for-the-midterm-elections","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://lee.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay congresswoman Barbara Lee\u003c/a> (D-Oakland) says she’s hopeful Democrats can replicate Tuesday's African-American voter turnout in Alabama’s Senate race to win back the House from the GOP next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election demonstrates that if you don’t take the black vote for granted and if you speak to the issues and organize -- African-Americans will vote,” said Lee, a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://cbc.house.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Black Caucus.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a stunning victory, Democrat Doug Jones eked out a win in Alabama over Roy Moore -- turning a red Senate seat blue for the first time in a quarter-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black voters represented 29 percent of Alabama’s electorate in the special election, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/?utm_term=.3805ec16e20f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exit polling by the Washington Post\u003c/a>. And they turned out in higher numbers than is customary for an off-year election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 96 percent of black Alabamians who turned out voted for Doug Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those ballots helped propel the Democrat to victory over Moore -- who was dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct, including child molestation. The result is also seen as a defeat for President Trump, who campaigned for Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee says black voters “were on the right side of history and the moral side of this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans may also have been drawn to Jones because of his background. A former U.S. attorney, Jones prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, in which four African-American girls were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, even with the victory, the Democratic Party has still been taking heat. Some African-Americans, including former NBA player and native Alabamian Charles Barkley, called the election\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/charles-barkley-doug-jones-cnn-tv/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a wake-up call for the Democratic Party\u003c/a> “for taking the black vote and the poor for granted.” It’s time for Democrats to “get off their ass,” said Barkley, “and start making life better for black voters and people who are poor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.democrats.org/organization/the-democratic-national-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic National Committee\u003c/a>, concedes the Democratic Party does have work to do. She says the party has been engaged in “soul searching” following some recent losses to the GOP. The key, Lee said, is for candidates to address issues that the black community cares about, such as income inequality and mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay congresswoman says the issue of sexual harassment, recently dominating the national conversation, speaks to black women in particular -- adding that the “MeToo” movement likely played a role in mobilizing black women against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knows the issues of sexual harassment any better than African-American women, given the history of slavery,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 98 percent of ballots cast by black women went for Jones.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11636872/big-win-in-alabama-buoys-democratic-hopes-for-the-midterm-elections","authors":["257"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22185","news_17648"],"featImg":"news_11636955","label":"news_72"},"news_11186133":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11186133","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11186133","score":null,"sort":[1479859399000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hillary-clintons-popular-vote-lead-is-1-7-million-and-growing-heres-why","title":"Hillary Clinton's Popular Vote Lead Is 1.7 Million And Growing. Here's Why","publishDate":1479859399,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Two weeks after Election Day, Hillary Clinton leads President-elect Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/edit#gid=19\">by 1.75 million votes\u003c/a>. Despite Clinton's popular vote lead, Trump will move into the White House because he won the Electoral College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton's margin will grow in the coming weeks — mostly because of California, where there are still\u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2016-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf\"> more than 2 million unprocessed ballots\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why does it take California so long to count the votes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, for one thing, blame coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coffee stains look just like an oval mark,\" says Sacramento County Assistant Registrar of Voters Alice Jarboe. \"So we have to remove all those coffee stains.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it seems at least some Californians like to fill out their vote-by-mail ballots over breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it gets worse: jam and jelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do find those on the ballot,\" Jarboe says. \"Those gum up our vote-counting machines, so we will remake those ballots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remaking a ballot doesn't happen quickly. Two election workers pair up to copy the votes from the damaged ballot onto an unmarked duplicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One person will call, the other person will mark,\" Jarboe says. \"And then they'll double-check their work to make sure that the calling and the marking compares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nearby election worker calls out \"65 yes, 66 yes, 67 no,\" as she and a colleague compare a ballot's votes on three of California's statewide propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After they check their work, a quality control team will check again. And then, the damaged ballot gets a big blue \"VOID\" stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other times, Jarboe says, there's a slightly quicker fix involving white-out tape: \"We will take that white-out tape and white over the problem ovals — the voter crossed out the oval, and said 'No, not this one, this one' — we'll cross out the one they didn't want; we'll white that out, and then a star stamp next to it. The star stamp is everybody's indication that we touched that ballot and we corrected it in some way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's likely that \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/status/\">14 million people will have voted\u003c/a> in California once all the ballots are processed — and Clinton won the state by a \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/president/\">nearly 2-1 ratio\u003c/a>. As voting by mail has surged, so too has the time it takes counties to count ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there are provisional ballots, which take even longer to process, because it's often hard to verify a voter's eligibility. California provisional ballot laws are much more permissive than in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would prefer that you show up at your own polling place and that you be registered,\" Jarboe says. \"But we're not going to tell you to go away, that you can't vote. We'll go ahead and let you vote a ballot and put it in a provisional envelope, and then we true it up here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These expansions [of voting rights] end up slowing down the vote count process,\" says Paul Mitchell, one of California's top voting data analysts. \"But to trade off 'we're gonna get our votes counted quicker and disenfranchise people on the front end,' I don't think is the right trade-off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California counties have two more weeks to certify their final ballot counts. Some other large states like Florida and Virginia have already done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says California's slow work is skewing Americans' perceptions of the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The presidential race was a much larger popular vote win for Hillary Clinton than was seen on Election Day or even the couple days after the election,\" he says. \"And that's only going to expand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Mitchell estimates Clinton could end up winning nationally by 2.5 million votes — the largest margin ever for an Electoral College loser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 Capital Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.capradio.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There are still 2 million ballots left to count in California. Most of those votes will likely go to Hillary Clinton, further running up her lead in the popular vote.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1479863519,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":646},"headData":{"title":"Hillary Clinton's Popular Vote Lead Is 1.7 Million And Growing. Here's Why | KQED","description":"There are still 2 million ballots left to count in California. Most of those votes will likely go to Hillary Clinton, further running up her lead in the popular vote.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Hillary Clinton's Popular Vote Lead Is 1.7 Million And Growing. 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Here's Why","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/503052632/two-weeks-after-election-day-california-continues-counting-ballots","nprImageCredit":"Ben Adler","nprByline":"Ben Adler, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/503052632/two-weeks-after-election-day-california-continues-counting-ballots\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"Capital Public Radio","nprStoryId":"503052632","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=503052632&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/503052632/two-weeks-after-election-day-california-continues-counting-ballots?ft=nprml&f=503052632","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:34:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:37:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:49:49 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2016/11/20161122_atc_two_weeks_after_election_day_california_continues_counting_ballots.mp3?orgId=285&topicId=1014&d=132&p=2&story=503052632&t=progseg&e=503041391&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=503052632","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1503052633-740652.m3u?orgId=285&topicId=1014&d=132&p=2&story=503052632&t=progseg&e=503041391&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=503052632","path":"/news/11186133/hillary-clintons-popular-vote-lead-is-1-7-million-and-growing-heres-why","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2016/11/20161122_atc_two_weeks_after_election_day_california_continues_counting_ballots.mp3?orgId=285&topicId=1014&d=132&p=2&story=503052632&t=progseg&e=503041391&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=503052632","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two weeks after Election Day, Hillary Clinton leads President-elect Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/edit#gid=19\">by 1.75 million votes\u003c/a>. Despite Clinton's popular vote lead, Trump will move into the White House because he won the Electoral College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton's margin will grow in the coming weeks — mostly because of California, where there are still\u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2016-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf\"> more than 2 million unprocessed ballots\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why does it take California so long to count the votes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, for one thing, blame coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coffee stains look just like an oval mark,\" says Sacramento County Assistant Registrar of Voters Alice Jarboe. \"So we have to remove all those coffee stains.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it seems at least some Californians like to fill out their vote-by-mail ballots over breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it gets worse: jam and jelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do find those on the ballot,\" Jarboe says. \"Those gum up our vote-counting machines, so we will remake those ballots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remaking a ballot doesn't happen quickly. Two election workers pair up to copy the votes from the damaged ballot onto an unmarked duplicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One person will call, the other person will mark,\" Jarboe says. \"And then they'll double-check their work to make sure that the calling and the marking compares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nearby election worker calls out \"65 yes, 66 yes, 67 no,\" as she and a colleague compare a ballot's votes on three of California's statewide propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After they check their work, a quality control team will check again. And then, the damaged ballot gets a big blue \"VOID\" stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other times, Jarboe says, there's a slightly quicker fix involving white-out tape: \"We will take that white-out tape and white over the problem ovals — the voter crossed out the oval, and said 'No, not this one, this one' — we'll cross out the one they didn't want; we'll white that out, and then a star stamp next to it. The star stamp is everybody's indication that we touched that ballot and we corrected it in some way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's likely that \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/status/\">14 million people will have voted\u003c/a> in California once all the ballots are processed — and Clinton won the state by a \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/president/\">nearly 2-1 ratio\u003c/a>. As voting by mail has surged, so too has the time it takes counties to count ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, there are provisional ballots, which take even longer to process, because it's often hard to verify a voter's eligibility. California provisional ballot laws are much more permissive than in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would prefer that you show up at your own polling place and that you be registered,\" Jarboe says. \"But we're not going to tell you to go away, that you can't vote. We'll go ahead and let you vote a ballot and put it in a provisional envelope, and then we true it up here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These expansions [of voting rights] end up slowing down the vote count process,\" says Paul Mitchell, one of California's top voting data analysts. \"But to trade off 'we're gonna get our votes counted quicker and disenfranchise people on the front end,' I don't think is the right trade-off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California counties have two more weeks to certify their final ballot counts. Some other large states like Florida and Virginia have already done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says California's slow work is skewing Americans' perceptions of the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The presidential race was a much larger popular vote win for Hillary Clinton than was seen on Election Day or even the couple days after the election,\" he says. \"And that's only going to expand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Mitchell estimates Clinton could end up winning nationally by 2.5 million votes — the largest margin ever for an Electoral College loser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 Capital Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.capradio.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11186133/hillary-clintons-popular-vote-lead-is-1-7-million-and-growing-heres-why","authors":["byline_news_11186133"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_1866","news_17286","news_19319","news_17648"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11186134","label":"source_news_11186133"},"news_10968405":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10968405","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10968405","score":null,"sort":[1464375758000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"days-before-primary-many-voters-realize-their-ballots-dont-have-presidential-candidates","title":"Days Before Primary, Many Voters Realize Their Ballots Don't Have Presidential Candidates","publishDate":1464375758,"format":"image","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A lot of voters with no party preference who were hoping to cast ballots in California's June 7 Democratic presidential primary could be in for an unwelcome surprise if they don't act fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only registered Republicans can vote in the GOP’s presidential primary. But California's Democratic primary is open to no party preference voters and they are free to participate in the primary -- that is, if they request a Democratic ballot. Data analyst Paul Mitchell says most independent voters haven't done that, even though they were mailed a notecard asking if they wanted a specific party ballot. He says 85 percent of ballots sent to no party preference voters statewide did not include a presidential option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary is just days away, but Mitchell says there's still time for independent voters to get a Democratic ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two Ways to Get a Democratic Ballot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One avenue is to find that notecard or to download it from the county registrar website,\" he says. \"Hand-sign it, fill it out, mail it in. And if the county registrar receives it before May 31, which is coming up soon, they can get a new ballot mailed to them. The ballot they are currently holding would become invalidated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says voters can also go to their polling place on Election Day and swap out their ballot for one with the presidential contenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get a sense of how many voters might be affected, there are a few voting-related numbers to consider. One is the growing number of independent voters in the state, now \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/60day-presprim-2016/hist-reg-stats.pdf\">nearly 24 percent\u003c/a> of all registered voters, or more than 4 million people. Mitchell says his research shows about half of those voters want to take part in the Democratic primary. The other factor is the growing number of people who vote by mail. 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