California has a lot of improvements to make on how it runs its elections, according to The Pew Charitable Trusts.

The Pew Index, an annual analysis of state elections, was released on Tuesday. Out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, California was ranked 49th overall when studying factors such as voter turnout, voter registration rate, and rejected or unreturned mail ballots.

According to their website, The Pew Index uses data from 17 key indicators from the 2008, 2010, and 2012 elections to compare election administration policy and performance throughout the country.

One of the seventeen indicators tracks the availability of online tools to look up voting information. California and Vermont were the only states that did not have any of these tools. California also ranked 42nd in voter turnout and 47th in registration or absentee ballot problems. California’s highest ranking was in voter wait time, where it ranked 9th.

California had very poor numbers in most of the key indicators, but Mississippi was the lowest ranked state by a landslide. The state was ranked 2nd in voter turnout by the report, but had incomplete data in 8 other indexes, and that crippled its score.

You can find more information, graphs, and analysis on the ranking system here.

Greg Cotta filed this report.