." >>> on our show, california's secretary of state alex padilla talks about why californians aren't voting. >>> what do changes on the supreme court bench mean for some key cases that will affect california? >>> and, we get a preview of upcoming arts events around the bay area. >>> but first, a tech giant takes on the federal government in a fight over access to cell phone data. on tuesday, a judge in southern california ordered apple to help the fbi unlock an iphone belonging to sayeed farook, 1 of the 2 terrorists who killed 14 people in san bernardino in december. security features on the implt phone have prevented the fbi from searching the device to see if farook and his wife communicated with other terrorists before of the attack. apple's ceo tim cook said the company will fight the order calling it an overreach by the government that could cost millions of americans privacy and security. joining us now, npr's digital

california's secretary of state alex padilla spoke with us about the barriers people face when it comes to voting. scott schafer has that interview. >> secretary padilla, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you bet. so 2014 was not a good year, a record low turnout for voters. why aren't people voteing? >> i think there is a lot of reasons why people who are eligible to register haven't register and people who are registered voters haven't turned out to vote. there are studies, surveys and polls and it is a combination of factors. a lot of disconnected from government, does my vote really make a difference. but believe it or not, there are a lot of mechanical reasons for why people don't vote. a big part of the voter universe out there isn't aware that election day is coming up because they aren't watching cnn. they're not getting all the mailers in the mailbox. even if they do know an election is coming up, they may not be paying close enough attention to know where their polling place is or things of that nature. >> i know you're taking some steps to change some of t

." >>> on our show, california's secretary of state alex padilla talks about why californians aren't voting. >>> what do changes on the supreme court bench mean for some key cases that will affect california? >>> and, we get a preview of upcoming arts events around the bay area. >>> but first, a tech giant takes on the federal government in a fight over access to cell phone data. on tuesday, a judge in southern california ordered apple to help the fbi unlock an iphone belonging to sayeed farook, 1 of the 2 terrorists who killed 14