Low Voter Turnout in California

Ballots are still being counted in California, but voter turnout for this election is expected to be low. California’s secretary of state estimates that about 16-million people voted, which is a turnout rate of about 69-percent as of Wednesday. That’s a decline of around one-point-seven-million votes compared to 2020, even though there are 550-thousand more registered voters and one-point-eight-million more eligible residents.
Dan Schnur, a political messaging instructor at USC, tells The Mercury News that California has increased the number of registered voters significantly especially with automatic registration, but many registered voters do not participate.