SAN DIEGO—Following a month of ballot counting, the San Diego County Registrar of Voters Dec. 8 certified the results of the November election with a voter participation rate of 54.2 percent.
Of 1.9 million registered voters in the county, 1,043,490 ballots were cast. Of those, 939,102 were mail-in ballots—nearly 90 percent of the total.
In statewide offices, the county voted a straight “blue” ticket, selecting Democrats for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, controller, treasurer, attorney general, senator, state superintendent, and insurance commissioner.
San Diego voters rejected two state propositions focused on allowing gambling in the state, as well as declining ones that would have required stricter licensing for the state’s dialysis clinics and taxing high-earners to pay for wildfire prevention and air pollution….