LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Hours ahead of the deadline, county election officials completed the final canvass for the Nov. 6 presidential election, with the numbers showing turnout was down from four years ago.
Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley said her staff finished the final canvass for the Nov. 6 election before lunch on Tuesday, well ahead of the 5 p.m. deadline.
The final results don’t show any placement changes for the candidates in the various city council and school board races, or the judicial contest.
However, the final count does give a more accurate picture of voter turnout for the election.
Among Lake County’s 34,938 registered voters, 13,470, or 38.6 percent, cast absentee or vote-by-mail ballots, compared to 10,215, or 29.2 percent, who voted at precincts.
The overall countywide voter turnout was 67.8 percent, compared to the 73.6 percent voter turnout the county reported for the 2008 presidential election.
Overall voter turnout in the new Congressional District Three, which covers the northern half of the county and will be represented by Congressman John Garamendi, was at 63 percent.
Congressman Mike Thompson will represent the new Congressional District Five, covering the southern half of the county, where voter turnout was 72.3 percent.
With city council elections in both cities, voter turnout was 55.7 percent in Clearlake and 71.1 percent in Lakeport.
The final counts showed that Measure E, the half-cent sales tax for water quality projects on Clear Lake, had a 63 percent yes vote, with 37 percent voting no. It needed 66 percent to win.
Also needing a 66-percent supermajority was the city of Clearlake’s Measure G, which would have funded road improvements and code enforcement. It had a 61.7 percent yes vote, to 38.3 percent voting no.
Voter turnout was 60.5 percent in the Konocti Unified School District and 71.4 percent in the South Lake County Fire Protection District, which had a successful measure, Measure F, to raise the district’s appropriation limits.
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