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A voter fills out her
ballot during early voting before the 2012 presidential election at the Gila
County Recorder's Office in Globe, Ariz., on Oct. 26. Voter registration data
published by Secretary of State Debra Bowen Tuesday show 17,660,486 Californians
are registered to vote and of that number more are registered as “no party
preference” compared to the last gubernatorial primary.; Credit: Joshua
Lott/Reuters/Landov
Voter registration data
published by Secretary of State Debra Bowen Tuesday show 17,660,486
Californians are registered to vote and of that number more are registered as
“no party preference” compared to the last gubernatorial primary.
No party preference voters
comprised 21.06 percent of the state’s total registered voters, a slight
increase from 20.1 percent in April 2010.
Republican voter
registration in California also had a notable change, from 30.8 percent of the
total in 2010 to 28.5 percent.
The voter data is included
in a 60-day report of registration, which reflects data across California’s 58
counties gathered 60 days before the June 3 statewide primary election.
Alpine, the California
county with the smallest amount of eligible voters—881—had the highest voter
registration, with 86.7 percent of the eligible voter population.
Tulare County had the
lowest voter registration, with almost 53 percent of its 255, 378 eligible
voters registered.
Of the eligible voters in
Los Angeles County, the largest county in the state, 80.1 percent of them were
registered to vote, according to the data.
“The clock is ticking and
the May 19 voter registration deadline will be here before you know it,” said
Secretary Bowen, the state’s chief elections officer, in a statement. “If you
aren’t one of the 17.7 million Californians already registered to vote, take
five minutes at the newly designed RegisterToVote.ca.gov which is now offered
in 10 languages.”
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Six months after Democratic Mayor Bob Filner left office in disgrace because more than a dozen women had stepped forward to accuse him of sexual harassment, San Diegans have chosen a Republican to take over.
On Tuesday, "Kevin Faulconer was elected by a wide margin over fellow Councilman David Alvarez," our colleagues at KPBS report. "The veteran Republican councilman soundly defeated his Democratic opponent 55 to 45 percent (with 86 percent of the vote counted.)"
A Faulconer victory breathes new life into the local Republican Party by restoring its control of the mayor's office that its candidates have occupied for much of the past four decades. Faulconer also becomes the only Republican mayor of a top 10 U.S. city, making him one of the party's highest-profile leaders in the state. The results dashed the hopes of Alvarez to become San Diego's first Latino mayor and its youngest in nearly 120 years.Faulconer is 47. Alvarez is 33.
KPBS notes that "in a full-circle development, it was announced Monday that Irene McCormack-Jackson — the top Filner aide whose revelations of sexual harassment energized the campaign to oust him — settled her lawsuit against the former mayor and the city. McCormack-Jackson will get $250,000, according to her attorney and the San Diego City Attorney's Office."
In December, Filner was sentenced to three months of home confinement and three years of probation for harassing women while he was mayor of San Diego. He had pleaded guity to "one felony and two misdemeanors for placing a woman in a headlock, kissing another woman and grabbing the buttocks of a third."
The former congressman served less than a year as mayor.
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No party preference voters
comprised 21.06 percent of the state’s total registered voters, a slight
increase from 20.1 percent in April 2010.
