>Santa Clara County officials reported receiving 863,964 votes,
>which accounted for nearly 85% of registered voters.

Considering the population of Santa Clara is estimated to be 1,927,852, that really only represents around 45% of the population. The reality is that turnout is rather quite lame.

@JS - According to the Census Bureau, in 2019 21.6% of the county was under age 18, so we'd need to subtract 400,000 kids from the population total since they're not eligible to vote. Census doesn't track citizenship, but shows 38.7% as "foreign-born." Taking a guess that half of those have become naturalized citizens and half are foreign citizens (and therefore ineligible to vote) would subtract another 300,000 adults (after adjusting for the same 21.6% for kids). (I have no idea how to adjust for convicted felons or other adult citizens who may not be eligible to vote.)

That (very rough) calculation suggests that only 1.2 million residents are eligible to vote. If 85% of registered voters voted in the election, that means there are 1 million registered voters.

So, ~85% of people eligible to vote are registered to vote and ~85% of registered voters voted in the last election. I think that's pretty inspiring turnout!