Just in time for election day navel-gazing, PDI has produced a tool for looking up any zip code in the state and peeking at the partisan, ethnic, and age characteristics of the absentee ballots that have already been cast.
One zip code that we really wanted to see: 90024 (UCLA) within the hotly contested SD 26 and CA 33 races, along with the LA 3rd Supervisorial contest. Some early analysis of AV applications showed several hundred young voters casting ballots who were outside the traditional “likely voter” models.
As can be seen below, this zip is bucking the statewide trend with 21% growth in raw votes over the same point in the 2012 Primary. Young voters are more than double the raw turnout at this point in the 2012 primary, but their votes cast are just 11% of voters – a paltry number considering they are 45% of the registrants.
There is another interesting finding in this data which can be seen statewide – the reduced turnout among partisan voters, and stability or increase in non-partisan voters. Go ahead and use the scrolling tool to check out other neighboring precincts or click the little search icon to type in your own.