LAKEPORT, Calif. – While the preliminary results are in for Tuesday's primary election, the Registrar of Voters Office is continuing the work of counting some additional ballots and conducting the official canvass in order to certify the final results by next month.
The election results are not considered official until the election certification is submitted to the Secretary of State's Office.
Interim Registrar of Voters Maria Valadez said Wednesday that she and her staff have until July 1 to complete the work.
As such, she cautioned that the preliminary numbers reported late Tuesday and early Wednesday could show changes once the final count is done.
First thing on Wednesday morning, Valadez began the work of conducting the official canvass, part of the certification process. That work will continue during regular business hours until the final count is finished.
On Tuesday, June 17, elections officials will conduct a public manual tally of a minimum 1 percent of randomly selected precincts for Tuesday's primary. The precincts to be counted manually will be chosen randomly that same day.
As part of finalizing the results, Valadez said she must still tally provisional ballots – used in cases when a properly registered voter's name is not on the polling place roster due to errors – and remaining absentees.
The Elections Office began processing absentee ballots on May 12, but some still have not been counted, Valadez said.
Valadez said she should have a better idea by the end of this week about how many of those absentee ballots as well as provisionals remain to be added to the final count.
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