From KAZU, a NPR-affiliated radio station in California:

Statewide election results will be certified by Friday. As the final numbers come in, there’s a new number to look for: how many people registered and voted on the same day. This was California’s first general election to allow same day voting.

On Election Day, the line to vote spilled out the door at the Monterey County Elections Office in Salinas. “We were caught a little bit by surprise by the numbers,” says Registrar of Voters Claudio Valenzuela.

Local Elections Offices are one of the only places you can vote conditionally in California. That’s where you register and vote on the same day, up to and on Election Day. Normally the last day to register to vote is 15 days before the election.

Governor Jerry Brown signed the same day voting bill into law back in 2012, but it only became available in statewide elections this year.

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