If Santa Clara County election officials used one word to sum up voter turnout: abysmal

SANTA CLARA COUNTY residents had a bevy of important, hotly contested elections to vote on, but few bothered to show up to the polls.

Only 24.21 percent of registered voters cast a ballot Tuesday, according to data from the Registrar of Voters updated June 9. In other words, 242,502 residents out of 1,001,791 cast a vote.