With one week left until the primary election, 80 percent of eligible Sacramentans are registered to vote, according to the secretary of state. <\/p>\n
This election will help dwindle down who the next governor might be. Right now, there’s no clear frontrunner. And as June 2 approaches, Californians are already hitting the polls. Roughly 10 percent of Sacramento County voters have already mailed in their ballots. <\/p>\n
“That’s pretty much on par, and I think that’s what we’re seeing across the state, too,” said Ken Casparis, a public information officer with Sacramento County. <\/p>\n
Casparis says the number of registered voters has increased over the last few years, and the county is opening up more voting centers to keep up. <\/p>\n
“This year, we did implement a mobile vote center. That was out over the weekend,” he said. <\/p>\n
It’ll also be out next weekend at Robert J. McGarvey Elementary School from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. <\/p>\n
CBS News Sacramento asked Casparis what the common misconceptions surrounding voting are. <\/p>\n
“Oh, there are a lot of them,” said Casparis, “We have a lot of people who think their vote doesn’t matter. That’s a common misconception because every vote counts. You never know if you’ll be that deciding vote in a race. There’s also this misconception that a lot of what happens in elections is secret and happens behind closed doors, but we welcome observers.” <\/p>\n
Casparis says anyone is allowed to observe and see what’s happening during any step of the voting or counting process. <\/p>\n
“Voter fraud is extremely rare. It’s not something we really see here in Sacramento County. We have a number of processes built into every step of the election process,” said Casparis. <\/p>\n
You can mail in your ballot, drop it off at a secure location, or vote in person. Starting this weekend, more than 90 voting locations will be open throughout the county. <\/p>\n
“We try and make it as easy and accessible as possible for people so they can go out and let their voice be heard,” said Casparis. <\/p>\n
If you plan to vote in person, voting centers will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on June 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one week left until the primary election, 80 percent of eligible Sacramentans are registered to vote, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-332592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}