Berkeley Voters Mail It In For 2020 General Election

Berkeley CA

04 November, 2020

7:02 PM

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BERKELEY, CA — Alameda County saw sky-high numbers for voter registration, but exceptionally low in-person voter turnout in the 2020 general election. Some 966,000 Alameda County residents were registered to vote as of Tuesday night, including 78,846 Berkeley residents. Of Berkeley 's registered voters, 100 percent opt to vote by mail, county statistics show. Alameda County elections officials still have more mail-in ballots to tally, but turnout was nearly 40 percent as of Tuesday night. Berkeley is doing substantially better with 72.7 percent of ballots returned. Mail-in ballots were particularly popular this year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Fewer than five percent of registered Alameda County voters opted for in-person polling places this year — that's Alameda County's lowest in-person turnout rate since 2008, the most recent year for which vote by mail statistics were readily available. See how this year's registration and voter turnout statistics compare to recent presidential elections in Alameda County: General Election YearRegistrationVote by Mail TurnoutElection Day TurnoutTotal Turnout2020 (unofficial results as of Tuesday night)966,088326,235 (37%)45,879 (5%)372,1142016888,709444,988 (50%)225,257 (25%)670,245 (75%)2012810,836333,449 (41%)269,030 (33%)602,479 (74%)2008803,009303, 807 (38%)324,738 (40%)628,545 (78%)2004742,258UnavailableUnavailable567,915 (77%) Source: Alameda County Registrar of Voters — Written by Courtney Teague with additional reporting by Bea Karnes