Lower participation levels on the GOP side could affect California’s U.S. Senate race featuring Democrats Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez, as well as several down-ticket contests for Congress and the Legislature, DiCamillo said.
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If that happens – and a small trickle of state party leaders who are superdelegates have just started saying they are unhitching themselves from Clinton and are backing Sanders – those votes that the party-line media claim have “clinched the nomination” for Clinton may abandon her, leaving her well shy of a majority with just her pledged delegates.
More than 2.5 million ballots from California’s June 7 primary are still uncounted, sparking questions about the results of the presidential contest in which Hillary Clinton emerged the victor and leaving the fate of local races in the air as poll workers continue to grapple with reports of voter difficulties. This procedural change may result in a lessened sense of urgency among voters who realize that their favorite candidate need not win the primary outright in order to advance to the general.
Voters will also have to decide on Freeholders in Middlesex County. Ballots postmarked by today will count.
This figure of three million votes left to still be counted was also announced by the independent analysts for Target Book.
President – Hillary Clinton is decisively beating Bernie Sanders in Orange County with 63 percent of the vote in early returns, and leads the Vermont Senator statewide by 30 points.
Sanders said he wants open contests in all 50 states, although it is unlikely that all states will agree, according to experts. There are many time-consuming steps involved in processing each mail ballot – signature verification, disassembly, counting. The big prize tonight is California, where Clinton is maintaining a narrow lead over challenger Bernie Sanders.
Logan said all voters within L.A. County who requested vote by mail or crossover ballots by the May 31 deadline have been mailed voting materials. Polling ahead of both Clinton and Trump, he would have to be allowed into the televised presidential debates, and his supporters, who have already provided close to $190 million in primary-season donations, could be expected to up the ante in a general election race.
Romero, director of the UC Berkley-based California Civic Engagement Project, also believes the AP call for Clinton may have influenced some voters.
Issuing of absentee ballots ended at noon on Monday, and Connors said it’s important that registered voters who haven’t received a ballot go to their normal polling places to vote on Tuesday – not to the fairgrounds.
“For no-party-preference voters, it was honestly quite a challenge”, Padilla said.
Today, Californians will finish a primary election that really has been taking place for nearly a month, when the first round of absentee ballots were mailed out. It includes 616,000 outstanding ballots in the most populous county, Los Angeles.
Eligible individuals can register or update their registration up to and including Election Day to vote in person. This year, that final canvass would be due on July 7. Connors said election staff will be able to help those potential voters file the correct paperwork, and then those people will be able to vote a provisional ballot.
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Pelosi’s endorsement could be a sign that high-level establishment Democrats are ready to rally behind Clinton. But these are basically 100 percent of precincts reported.
