By Ben Christopher, CALmatters
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 1-in-4 registered voters bothered to participate.
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.)
Read the complete story at CALmatters.
