LOS ANGELES – With some races still hanging in the balance, Los Angeles County election officials said there are still about 984,000 ballots that need to be counted from Tuesday’s mid-term election.
According to county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan, the number includes 587,000 vote-by-mail ballots, 385,000 provisional ballots, 8,000 miscellaneous questioned ballots and 4,000 ballots cast under the conditional, day-of-election voter-registration process.
The number of outstanding ballots could still increase, since the clerk’s office will continue accepting vote-by-mail ballots that arrive by Friday, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday.
Semi-official results released early Wednesday showed the voter turnout during Tuesday’s election to be about 38 percent of the county’s roughly 5.2 million registered voters. If all 984,000 outstanding ballots are verified and added to the tally, the turnout figure would rise to about 57 percent.
By comparison, overall turnout during the June primary election was 29 percent. Turnout during the November 2014 mid-term election was 33 percent in Los Angeles County.
The Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office will release regular updates as the vote-counting continues over the next few weeks. The office is tentatively scheduled to certify the results by Nov. 30. The county Board of Supervisors is expected to declare the results official at its Dec. 4 meeting.
The large number of outstanding ballots calls into question the results of a variety of races from Tuesday’s election that could potentially be affected by the additional votes. Most notably, county Sheriff Jim McDonnell is trailing by about 4,900 votes in his bid for reelection and is in danger of becoming the first incumbent sheriff to lose a reelection bid in more than a century.
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Common Sense says
Yes, those deadlines are mentioned in the article. Is there anything else you would like to share without being defensive?
Tim Scott says
No, not really. I guess if someone comes up with another wild speculation about how a perfectly routine vote counting process is some sort of evil plot to steal the election I might “get defensive,” but I’m pretty content for now.
Of course our president spewing nonsense conspiracy theories about it will continue to irritate me, because it stirs up his half-witted fans and they may get out of control.
JUDY WALKER says
LOS ANGELES VOTER DECIDED TO VOTE ALL POS REPUBS THAT SUPPORT DIKKFACE TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS
Ignacio P. says
Did you forget your meds?
Just Me says
What can possibly be tatooed across your forehead?
Jose says
I say Voter Fraud!
DummyCrats trying to steal elections again.
Ignacio P. says
Nothing changes with the demons!
Common Sense says
Unexcuseable. And the person in charge of elections in California has won re-election. How sad.
Tim Scott says
Why inexcusable? There are deadlines for vote counting under state law. Those deadlines have not been compromised. LA county has more people, and voters, than any other county in the entire country, so it isn’t unreasonable that it takes longer to count votes here than it does in podunk.
Ignacio P. says
More than likely they are votes for the red wave. Typical demons aka the democrat party.