Okay so I ran the following code and I am seeing ~0.70V on the GPIO pin and not 3.3V. Why could that be?
#import the GPIO and time package
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(18, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(18,True)
GPIO.cleanup()
Actually now i'm getting 0.20V