In less than one week, California voters will head to the polls for the mid-term primary elections. So far, only about 10% of vote-by-mail ballots have been returned across the state.
An afternoon block party on Hensley Street in San Jose on Wednesday night organized by Silicon Valley Rising Action is hoping to encourage people to vote.
According to Political Data Intelligence, a company that tracks voter turnout, across the state, a little less than 10% of mail in ballots have been returned as of Wednesday, and numbers in San Jose were basically the same. That's why one of the issues being talked about at the block party was Measure B, a proposal on the ballot in San Jose to move the mayor's race to the Presidential election cycle instead of on the mid-term ballot, which is where it is now.
Opponents say the ballot measure is simply a waste of money, and the mayor's race should be left where it is.
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