About 3.7 million ballots have been returned so far in California’s special election to either approve or reject Proposition 50, according to a data firm used by political campaigns.

A Thursday release from data firm Political Data Inc. stated that 16% of ballots sent out to California voters have already been returned from Oct. 6 to Oct. 23.

Earlier this month, the firm said the voter turnout rate at the time was “close to recall election numbers,” in a reference to the 2021 vote over whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.

According to the early mail-in vote, 19% of Democrats and 18% of Republicans have turned in their ballots. That equates to more than 1.9 million votes out of 10.3 million total ballots mailed for Democrats. For Republicans, that equates to more than 1 million votes o

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