LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Registrar of Voters Office on Friday night issued an update on how many ballots remain to be counted from the Super Tuesday presidential primary this week.
Interim Registrar Diane Fridley said the election results will not be final until all of the ballots have been counted and the count is certified as part of the 28-day official canvass, which ends April 3.
On Friday, Fridley said approximately 10,514 ballots remain to be counted.
The work of the canvass also will include counting the ballots cast for the two write-in candidates for the Lake County Superior Court judicial seat. Both incumbent J. David Markham and challenger Lisa Proffitt-O’Brien filed paperwork to be qualified write-ins, as Lake County News has reported. So far, no initial count has been issued.
The breakdown of the 10,514 ballots to be counted is as follows:
– Vote-by-mail, or VBM, ballots received between Feb 26 and Election Day, March 3: 5,800;
– VBM ballots postmarked on or before March 3 and received on March 4: 364;
– VBM ballots postmarked on or before March 3 and received on March 5: 492;
– VBM ballots postmarked on or before March 3 and received on March 6: 77;
– Vote-by-mail ballots dropped off at the polls on Election Day: 1,911;
– Provisional and conditional ballots voted at the polls on Election Day: 1,405;
– Provisional and conditional ballots voted at the Elections Office: 98;
– Vote-by-mail ballots that require further review for various reasons: 367.
Fridley said that effective Jan. 1, 2016, Elections Code section 3020 changed the deadline for elections officials to receive vote-by-mail ballots returned by mail.
The result is that vote-by-mail ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day shall be timely cast if the voter’s ballot is received by the voter’s elections official no later than three days after Election Day, in this case, on Friday.
She said “polls provisional ballots” are cast at the polling places on Election Day. Some of the reasons a voter is issued a provisional ballot:
– The voter’s name is listed on the active voter roster list as a vote-by-mail voter and the voter is unable to surrender his/her VBM ballot in order to be issued a polls ballot.
– The voter’s name is not printed in the roster-index, has moved and did not re-register to vote at his/her new residence address.
– A voter is voting in the wrong voting precinct and not his/her assigned voting precinct.
– A first-time voter who is required to provide ID but is unable to do so.
– The voter’s eligibility to vote cannot be determined by the poll worker.
Fridley said “conditional voter ballots” issued to a person personally visiting either the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office or a voting precinct no later than the close of the polls – prior to 8 p.m. – on Election Day.
These voters are Lake County residents who missed the regular voter registration deadline of Feb. 18 but they still have the option to vote in an election by conditionally registering to vote and casting a conditional ballot (same-day voter registration).
Fridley said provisional ballots, conditional ballots and vote-by-mail ballots requiring further review may be entirely counted, partially counted or not counted.
She said she will issue an update on the total number of ballots to be counted as well as a breakdown of ballots to be counted by unincorporated county and district contests on the ballot as soon as the information is available.
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Registrar of Voters Office offers update on ballots still to be counted for Tuesday election
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