Voters cast ballots at San Jose drive-thru drop-off

With that, we want to continue our coverage and get to the Bay Area now. We want to bring in our colleague from KTVU, Mark Sayre, who is at the San Jose Ballot Processing Center. And Mark, tell us about turnout. I know it was raining there earlier today. It was, Coco. Yeah, a lot of people driving through. We're at an outdoor ballot collection station. Let's show you what's going on here. We have county poll workers set up at different locations. They are literally waving through waves of cars that are coming through here, collecting ballots in person and putting them into those big boxes that will go directly into the registrar voter's office to be counted. Now, here in San Jose, this is Santa Clara County, of course, which is Silicon Valley. It's also the largest county in the San Francisco Bay Area, million people here. So far, the turnout so far, we understand, has been about 33 percent. That is of ballots that have been returned as of yesterday. I want to bring in David Johnson. Come on in, David. David is the chair of the county Republican Party here in Santa Clara County. David, why do you think so many people are coming here at the last minute? Do you think there is concern about election security? Their ballots are going to be tampered with? Any ideas why we're seeing such a run here? Well, it's a very contentious election. Right. You have a lot at stake. You have the future of California. Do we retain one party rule? That we've had for 16 years. Democrat party rule. One party rule. One party rule. Or do we make a change, try something new, head in a different direction? So I think that brings out a lot of people. So you don't think that the efforts that the Trump administration has made, the Department of Justice sending letters in this county alone, they indicated they believe there were 900 non-citizens who voted. You don't think that has anything to do with this? It's just people wanting their voices heard, unrelated to what's happening in Washington and the Trump administration? A lot of people, I think that's a common narrative, that a lot of people think that it's Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. But no, we have our own issues. Put him to the side. Trump come, Trump go. I live here. I'm a conservative. I always have been and I always will be. Here's the thing. What we are asking for, what we think would be appropriate, we were talking earlier about ballots and all of this stuff. Voter ID is a signature issue on the ballot. It's a 70-30 issue. 70% of Democrats and Republicans think that you should have to provide ID as a condition of voting. And it's also in the state constitution that you have to be a citizen to vote. It's in the federal constitution, but our state doesn't believe that. Our argument is simply, if there's no fraud, then you want voter ID as much as everyone else does. And the moment that that happens, then we'll shut up. If, in fact, the voter rolls don't change, you know, obviously in this county, in the Bay Area, in many areas of Southern California, I mean, Democrats have solid control. Is it difficult to get your message? The Republican Party, you're the county chair in this county. It's difficult to get the message across and to be heard by voters. Do you think there's a silent majority? That's something that was discussed during Trump's earlier election. I'm not going to say anything about what Trump is doing or has done, because he's really not a factor. Not on the ballot. Not on the ballot. Not even a factor here in the state. But there are efforts across the state. And we've had numerous rallies here with 400, 500, 600 people working on the voter ID initiative. So we have, in the last year and a half, It generated a lot of excitement for our base. So that's part of it. But I get asked a lot about Trump, and I say, no, it's not about him. David, thank you very much. David Johnson, chair of the Republican Party here in Santa Clara County. We're going to see if we can actually talk to a voter who's dropping off a ballot. Let's see if this works out for us right here. Thank you very much for that interview. I'm not sure we're going to be able to get—hang on. Here we go. After she drops her ballot off, do you mind if I ask her a question? Hang on. Go ahead. Go. Take the ballot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me go ahead. Let me just check the meter and date. Sure. Can I get you an I Voted sticker? Sure. I'll take another one. Okay. Here you go. Thank you. All right. Thank you for voting. Mark Sayre with Fox Local. How did the election go? What do you think? I think Democrats are going to take over and win the House. Yeah. Did you vote on all the California ballot propositions? I voted on what I got. You did. So you voted on all. You didn't skip any. No. Okay. All right. All right, thanks a lot. Fox Local? Yeah, Fox Local. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Thanks for your time. All right. We did the best we could. Yeah, Coco, one issue they've discussed is this concept of undervoting where, you know, the ballots are so long and so complicated that people are voting for the propositions that they know about or want to or the candidates they do, then just saying, nah, I'm not going to bother with the rest of the ballots. So there is some concern about that with some of those ballot propositions. It'll be interesting to see when the statewide returns come in, you know, how many people People skipped certain propositions because, you know, it's a long ballot. And it's confusing. And we definitely heard that here today as we talked to voters. Back to you. Mark Sayre, you're right. Those ballots are definitely long, so many propositions. So to your point, definitely curious to see how that comes out with the voters when we see what happens on Election Day. Mark Sayre, thank you so much, live from San Jose, talking to voters as well on this Election Day. We really appreciate your time. We'll see you again soon. Thanks.