A new California voting record

Secretary of State Debra Bowen reports that California set a record at the Nov. 4 presidential election with more than 13.7 million voters casting ballots.
Bowen sai the previous state record was 12.6 million voters in November 2004.
This year's vote also represented 79.34 percent of the state's 17.3 million registered voters. the record is 88.4 percent in 1964 when Lyndon B. Johnson won election.
"This was an election for the history books," Bowen said. "Record numbers of Californians registered to vote and cast ballots in an exceptionally smooth election."
The counties with the highest turnout on a percentage basis were Sonoma at 93.4 percent, Marin at 90.8 per cent, and Amador at 88.6 percent. In Los Angeles County, the turnout was 78.4 percent.
Of the vote, more than 5.7 million voters, or 41.6 per cent, cast their ballots by mail.