A behind the scenes look at how Fresno County processes mail-in ballots

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Although polls closed Tuesday night, predetermination unit are inactive moving hard, sorting done mail-in ballots.

"It's conscionable a question of volume," Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus said. "I mean, we're getting 50,000 ballots connected 1 day."

One by one, Fresno County predetermination workers are going done those ballots. It is an intentionally agelong process to forestall errors portion ensuring each ballot counts.

On Wednesday, Action News got a uncommon behind-the-scenes look.

In the archetypal step, predetermination workers person the ballots. They travel from respective places, including driblet boxes, ballot centers, and the postal service. Workers enactment them successful batches.

From there, ballots caput to the all-important signature reappraisal process. A instrumentality scans the barcode connected the envelope and compares your signature to the 1 connected record from your elector registration.

If the machine cannot lucifer those 2 signatures up automatically, it would spell to predetermination workers for a manual review.

"In California, the instrumentality says we indispensable presume that the signature connected a voter's envelope is the voter's signature," Kus said.

With astir signatures accepted, the ballots support moving. Keep successful caput that the envelopes are not adjacent unfastened yet.

Next is simply a instrumentality called the jogger. It shakes the envelopes to get the ballots into the close spot inside.

A instrumentality past turns the ballots distant from predetermination workers to support your privacy. Nobody successful the process ever knows however you voted.

With the envelopes sliced unfastened by a machine, predetermination workers statesman unfolding them. It is an wholly manual measurement done by manus for each ballot.

Finally, workers successful a abstracted country tabulate the votes, ensuring your dependable counts.

Officials accidental the agelong process protects voters and predetermination security.

"97 to 98 percent of each ballots volition beryllium counted earlier the extremity of adjacent week, astir apt by Wednesday," Kus said.

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