California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen has just released a report regarding the results of the recent February 5th Primary Elections. The report shows that 57.7% of registered voters turned out to vote at the Presidential Primary Elections, this is a little more than 9 million Californians. This is 1.2 million more voters than the previous Presidential primary in March 2000. According to this report this is the highest voter turn out in California since 1980; the all time record was in 1976 when almost 73% of voters turned out. Of the total voters 55.27% were Democrat and 33.93% were Republican. In explanation for the high voter turnout Bowen releases the following statement, “The closeness of the Republican and Democratic contests, and the ability to truly help pick the next presidential nominees, clearly motivated Californians to head to the polls in record numbers for a primary election."
Link: http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/792083.html
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