LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Registrar of Voters Office is getting closer to completing the many tasks associated with finalizing the vote count for the Nov. 4 general election.
Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley's staff began work on the official election canvass the day after the election.
The canvass includes counting the remaining absentee – or vote-by-mail – and provisional ballots that weren't tallied election night – totaling 5,536 ballots, Fridley reported.
The preliminary count released on election night included absentees and provisionals that Fridley's office had received by Oct. 31.
Under California state law, Fridley is required to certify the results of the Nov. 4 general election no later than Tuesday, Dec. 2.
She said Thursday that the official statement of votes cast at the general election will be presented to the Lake County Board of Supervisors at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
The newly elected and reelected county officials will begin their term of office on Jan. 5 or 6, 2015, she said.
On Tuesday morning, Fridley began the 1-percent public manual tally of randomly selected precincts. The procedure is meant to determine if there are any discrepancies between the machine count and the manual tally.
She anticipated that the manual tally would be completed on Friday and that processing of the provisional ballots will be completed by the end of the day on Monday.
At that point, Fridley said the final official canvass tasks will be the counting of the remaining vote-by-mail ballots and the approved provisional ballots.
Fridley said the process of counting those remaining ballots will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
She said anyone who is interested in the counting of the remaining ballots can watch the process at the Registrar of Voters Office in Room 209 on the second floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
Once those tasks are done, Fridley said she can certify the results.
Fridley said she said she will release the final results after the canvass is completed.
Following the election, Secretary of State Debra Bowen said approximately 1,705,281 ballots statewide remained to be counted during the official canvass, as Lake County News has reported.
On Thursday, Bowen's office reported that approximately 232,836 ballots statewide were still uncounted.
Based on Bowen's Thursday report, Lake – along with neighboring Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma – was among 29 of California's 58 counties still engaged in finishing the official canvass.
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Registrar of voters provides update on final election canvass
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