CNN reports that Hawaii might have moved up a spot on the national voter turnout rankings. But don’t celebrate yet. 

We were last in 2008. And the news is that we might be second to last this year. But not because we did better — it’ll be because West Virginia did worse.

Election results guru Michael McDonald put it best: “It really is a race to the bottom right now,” he told CNN. 

Much has been made of Hawaii’s poor voter turnout. CNN sent columnist John Sutter out here for a week to investigate as part of the network’s “Change the List” project.

In case you missed Civil Beat’s voter turnout story today, 19,000 fewer people in Hawaii cast ballots this election compared to 2008, resulting in a 4 percent drop in our voter turnout rate, from 66 percent to 62 percent. 

Sorry CNN, but that doesn’t really sound like something to be all that pleased about.

You can read Sutter’s latest column for yourself. And check out our special report on Hawaii’s Vanishing Voter.

(Note: Hawaii calculates its voter turnout rate by comparing the number of ballots cast compared to registered voters. CNN cites a 46.9 percent figure George Mason University, where they measure voter turnout as a voters who cast ballots compared to the eligible voting population.)