LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Registrar of Voters Office reported Thursday on the progress being made to complete the count of unprocessed ballots from the presidential election.

The elections office has 28 days to complete the official canvass for the Nov. 5 election, which means the full tally must be complete by Dec. 3. The Secretary of State’s Office will certify results on Dec. 13.

Until the results are certified, the general election results aren’t final, the Registrar of Voters Office reported.

The first count the elections office issued on unprocessed ballots two days after the election put the total at 19,021 ballots, including 17,445 vote-by-mail ballots, 1,453 provisional/conditional ballots and 123 vote-by-mail ballots that require further review for various reasons.

The updated unprocessed ballot count the registrar issued on Thursday totaled 18,952, including 17,247 vote-by-mail ballots and 1,453 provisional/conditional ballots.

Additionally, the number of vote-by-mail ballots requiring review grew from 123 to 252, the elections office reported.

The Secretary of State’s Office reported that, as of Thursday evening, 14,599,593 ballots had been processed statewide.

Ballots still to be counted in California’s 58 counties total 1,513,597.

That includes:

• 157,952 vote-by-mail ballots received after election day. The Secretary of State’s Office said vote-by-mail ballots that are mailed must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by a county election office no later than seven days after Election Day in order to be counted.
• 70,371 provisional ballots.
• 331,842 conditional voter registration ballots.
• 44,644 ballots classified as “other.” “This category includes unprocessed ballots that are damaged or could not be machine-read and need to be remade, and ballots diverted by optical scanners for further review,” the Secretary of State’s Office reported.

In addition, the state reported that there are 132,612 ballots left to cure, which refers to the process of addressing errors that led to a ballot’s rejection.

Editor’s note: On Friday, the Registrar of Voters Office issued a revised ballot count. This article has been revised to reflect those numbers.

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