On June 5, the California Secretary of State released the number of ballots still uncounted from the June 3, 2014 primary. That number is 1,011,398. When that figure is added to the number of votes cast for Governor that had been counted as of the same point, 3,296,369, the sum is 4,307,767. The number of registered voters in California just before the primary was 17,722,006. This yields a 24.3% turnout.

Not all of the uncounted ballots will be valid, because many of them are provisionals, and most provisional ballots are found invalid, because the person who cast that vote wasn’t registered to vote. On the other hand, there are some ballots which invariably were blank for Governor.

The previous lowest primary turnout in California history was the June 2008 primary, which had turnout of 28.2% turnout. That primary had no statewide offices on the ballot, because the presidential primary had been held in March 2008.

The June 6 Washington Post has this analysis by Jaime Fuller, “Is California’s Top Two System Working?”

On May 13, Damon Jespersen, a registered member of the Green Party, was elected Selectman of Newbury, Massachusetts. He placed first, and ousted an incumbent. Even though the Green Party is not now ballot-qualified in Massachusetts, election officials keep track of registrants in certain unqualified parties that have asked for registration rights. The Massachusetts Green Party expects to regain its qualified status in November 2014, because it is running for three statewide partisan offices, and expects to poll at least 3% for at least one of them, if not all three offices. The three offices are Secretary of State, Auditor, and Treasurer. Minor parties always poll 3% for these offices in Massachusetts.