The county elections office is expecting turnout of between 40 percent and 45 percent for Tuesday’s election, according to the assistant clerk-recorder-registrar.
Tuesday is Election Day across the nation. The local ballot, meanwhile, is crowded with board races and initiatives, along with the governor’s race.
Those local matters are part of the reason why the elections office expects an big increase over the 31.9 percent turnout number from the June primary, said Angela Curro, assistant clerk-recorder-registrar for San Benito County.
Curro explained that the office as of Friday had about 17 percent more mail-in ballots than the same period in the primary cycle. That momentum slowed a bit from about two weeks ago, when there were around 22 percent more mail-in ballots received than during the same time frame of the primary.
Curro said a lot of people turned in mail-in ballots earlier in October, but the initial fervor hasn’t held up.
“Yes, that has impacted the increase in turnout from the primary to the general, but not so much,” Curro said.
Historically, there is about a 12 percent to 15 percent increase between primaries and general elections, Curro said.
