With just days left to vote in California’s primary election, more Democrats are hanging on to their ballots longer than usual as they stress over a governor’s race with no runaway leader.
As of Thursday, 11% of registered Democrats had returned their ballots, down from 14% at the same time in the 2022 primary, according to a ballot tracker from Political Data Inc.
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Republican turnout, meanwhile, was up 2 percentage points, meaning that at this point in the race, the ballots that have been returned are skewing more Republican than they did four years ago.
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