Massive turnout may lead to delayed results

In California registered voters have risen to 17.3 million, which is larger that any state population other than Texas, New York and Florida. Coupled with the huge increase in mail-in ballot which cannot be counted until after all poll ballots are counted, the situation could turn in to a long night for poll officials left to count the ballots. Some counties are expecting as much as an 80 percent turnout, along with lines that continue far past the intended closing time of 8 p.m.

What's making this year so exciting? The guarantee that either the first black or the first woman will be in office in the next couple of months is certainly part of it, but another reason is that the propositions on the ballot this cycle are many and heated. Proposition 8, the proposition to over-turn the states' Supreme court ruling in favor of gay marriage, is the most expensive campaign in American other than the presidential campaigns themselves.