The Lassen County Clerk’s Office is continuing to tally votes today as mail-in ballots trickle in from the March 3rd Presidential Primary.
“Hopefully we will be done with most of everything by the close of business Friday, March 13th,” explains Lassen County Clerk-Recorder Julie Bustamante, who adds that, “The new laws delay everything.”
The office has to accept all post marked ballots in the mail through today.
“We have 9 ballots that need signatures, and we have to give them 10 days to fix them. So we will not be done processing those until next Friday at 5:00p.m.”
The staff in the election office is currently processing Rosters from the polls and as soon as they are finished with that the remaining 665 ballots received at the polls can be processed.
Bustamante also said that there are 46 damaged ballots that need to be duplicated.
“We also have 230 Provisional/Conditional Voter Registration that can’t be processed until everything else is done.”
“After that we have 64 ballots that came up VOID, but they all have to be looked at because voter can now register, change address, and/or change their party through Election night. If they did any of that on-line after the ballots were issued, the system automatically voids the ballot.”
Out of 14,046 registered voters in our county 6,292, or 44.80%, cast ballots for Tuesday’s election.
