Pasadena voter turnout up 10 percentage points

This is a preview of an upcoming weekend story where I will break down all the results for how the Crown City voted on county, state, and federal measures.

The teaser is that the whole city turned out in much greater numbers than 2004, the last presidential election. About 58 percent of registered voters showed up in 2004, and 68 percent showed up in Tuesday's election. I believe that number could creep up with some late absentee ballots coming in.

That is still low- nationwide in 2004, according to a U.S. Census report 89 percent of registered voters showed up to vote. There are no numbers I know of for this election so far, but this year's city numbers are higher than the county estimate of 65 percent for the county.

The question is how much that will rise once the 377,000 absentee votes are counted, plus any provisional ballots.