California has made voting much easier, but regular voters still skew white and old, poll finds

Voting in California has never been easier.

Eligible residents can get help in 10 languages. Ballots are sent to registered voters' homes. They have a month to drop a ballot off in boxes around their municipality. That's on top of multiple days of voting in person and the ability to register to vote up until the last minute.

Despite all that, the people who vote most often remain older, whiter and wealthier than most Californians, according to a new survey from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies.

Just under 4 in 10 of the state's registered voters are what Berkeley defined as regular voters — those who have cast ballots in at least five of the last seven statewide elections. Berkeley researchers determined the frequency of voting by verifying