Election turnout: Orange County goes its own way
More from Orange County about the drop in balloting on Tuesday compared with the last two elections:
OC 2008:
Total ballots cast: 858,174 (53.4%)
OC 2004:
Total ballots cast: 1,094,405 (73.2%)
OC 2000:
Total ballots cast: 978,285 (72.9%)
-- Susannah Rosenblatt
Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
EDITOR'S PICKS:
Surprising, what with Prop. 8 on the ballot, yet not, since there was no way OC votes were going to change the state's color in the electoral college sweepstakes!
Posted by: Miss Picky | November 05, 2008 at 11:23 AM
This is a bit deceiving because the absentee and provisional ballots haven't been counted yet (there are 250,000 or so)
Posted by: Damon | November 05, 2008 at 08:28 PM