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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lake County Registrar of Voters Office on Thursday offered an update on the work to complete the official canvass for the March 5 presidential primary.
The 28-day canvass period began the day after the election. Until it is complete and the election is certified, the election results are not final.
Since the last update, the March 12 deadline passed to receive ballots postmarked by the end of Election Day.
The elections office said that approximately 7,415 vote-by-mail, or absentee, ballots remain to be counted. That’s about 600 less than the last count, which was impacted by those additional ballots continuing to come in by mail.
There also are 266 provisional or conditional ballots, and 266 vote-by-mail ballots that require further review for various reasons, the agency reported.
The elections office said the grand total of ballots remaining to be counted as of Thursday was 7,947.
Effective this year, AB 63 requires that the elections office update vote results and unprocessed ballot counts at least once per week and post the updated information on its website.
Registrar of Voters Maria Valadez said her office may stop posting results if the only ballots left to count are the ballots for which voters have the opportunity to either verify their signature or provide a signature, or until they certify election results.
For more information, visit the Lake County Registrar of Voters website or call 707-263-2372 OR toll-free at 888-235-6730.
Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to state that the canvass period is 28 days, not 30, and to add information about AB 63.