While 100% of precincts have reported, those are partial results since mail in ballots are still being counted. Ballots postmarked Tuesday, June 7th have three days to arrive at a Registrar for counting. Final turnout tallies will be available July 8th.
Its kinda hard to suppress mail in ballots.
From the LA Times:
"As the votes are tallied Tuesday night in California's presidential primary, more of them are likely to have been cast from kitchen tables or couches than a polling place.
The nonpartisan Field Poll estimated that 5 million Californians would vote by mail in this statewide primary. That would set a new record, surpassing the 3.7 million ballots mailed in to elections officials in the 2008 presidential primary.
The all-time record was set in the November 2012 general election, with 6.7 million ballots cast by mail.
The trend has not gone unnoticed by campaign consultants. For more than a decade, they have watched election day in California turn into something more akin to an election week. One likely reason for the shift is the 2002 state law that allows voters to permanently change their status to what used to be called an "absentee voter."
The Field report finds that in 2004, just after the law went into effect, 16% of California voters were permanently registered to vote by mail. Now, it's 53% of all voters -- about 9.2 million Californians in all."
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