Secretary of State Michele Reagan issued the election canvass today, putting an official end to the 2016 election.

Gov. Doug Ducey is out of town and Reagan filled in for him as acting governor. Her assistant secretary of state, Lee Miller, filled in for Reagan as acting secretary of state in signing the form.

Reagan noted that 2016 felt like the never-ending election year, because there were four statewide elections this year. The planning for them started nearly a year ago when elections officials drew names to determine the order that the Presidential Preference Election candidates would appear on the ballot.

Reagan noted that the number of provisional ballots was dramatically cut from the last presidential election and only 102,000 were cast this election cycle, compared to 183,000 in the 2012 election.

But a larger percent of those provisional ballots were tossed out.

This time around, 77 percent of the provisional ballots were counted, compared to the 82 percent that were counted in 2012.

“This (the decline in provisional ballots) is extremely good news, because it shows that voter education at the state level and the county level, is working,” Reagan said.

She also announced that she won’t be putting out a report, as planned, about the failures of the Presidential Preference Election, and would instead be drafting a “comprehensive report on what went wrong and what went right during each of the four statewide elections,” she said, noting that would be ready in early 2017.

In her brief remarks, Reagan noted that more than 2.6 million voters turned out in the general election – a new record, thanks to population growth – but that the official turnout was 74.17 percent, which ranks only the sixth highest on record.

“While it felt that voter and media enthusiasm is at an all-time high, voter behavior was actually about average,” she said.

She said women made up 55 percent of the electorate.

But 18-24 year-olds are still an “elusive” group that only made up 6 percent of voters. The average age of voters was 55 years old.

Early ballots made up 73 percent of all ballots, an increase from just 54 percent in 2012 or 45 percent in 2008, Reagan said.