The polls close at 8 p.m., and then the counting begins in California's recall election.
Information compiled by Political Data Inc., a California election research company, shows that young voters and Latino voters were showing up as a smaller percentage of early ballots relative to their share of the registered electorate.Data reported through late Tuesday show 64% of all ballots collected were cast by Californians age 50 or older, even though voters in those older age groups make up only 49% of registered voters.
In terms of race and ethnicity, Latino voters were also underrepresented in the early reports. While making up 27% of all voters, only 18% of the first ballots came from Latinos. White voters were overrepresented in the ballots that had been submitted by late Tuesday by 9 percentage points relative to their portion of the registered electorate.Researchers at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California began reporting on the state’s “exclusive electorate” in the early 2000s. At the same time the state was growing more diverse, its voters were reflecting an era that had passed by.
“Voters in California tend to be older, white, college educated, affluent, and homeowners,” PPIC researchers wrote in an update report in 2016. “They also tend to identify themselves as ‘haves’ — rather than ‘have nots’ — when asked to choose between these two economic categories. “Nonvoters tend to be younger, Latino, renters, less affluent, and less likely to be college educated than likely voters — and they generally identify themselves as have nots.”Another question is whether someone will try to challenge the results. Some right-wing activists began sowing doubts about the integrity of the vote and have made unfounded allegations.
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