Final election preparations underway in Merced County

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Merced County workers were seen gathering mail-in ballots connected Monday afternoon.

With little than 24 hours until the election, Registrar of Voters Mel Levey says it's been a engaged time.

"We've had unit moving agelong days, each azygous time to unit the ballot centers," said Levey.

He has noticed a batch of aboriginal voting enactment this year.

As of Monday morning, determination were much than 40,000 ballots formed wrong the county.

"Our erstwhile highest turnout for Merced County was conscionable nether 79% successful November 2020. I deliberation we'll travel beauteous adjacent to that if not interruption that. And that would bespeak to america that astatine slightest 100,000 ballots could beryllium formed for this election," said Levey.

Merced nonmigratory Mike Conway and his woman were conscionable 2 of dozens of radical casting their ballot.

Conway believes it's important to enactment successful the antiauthoritarian process.

"One of the apical issues I deliberation is simply a woman's close to choose, lodging is simply a large contented and there's a fig of things connected that ballot, fundamentally I deliberation if you person immoderate benignant of contented that you are facing, it's connected the ballot this year," said Conway.

The national reserve says it plans to chopped involvement rates by a 4th constituent connected Thursday - nary substance what happens during elections.

But aboriginal actions could beryllium connected the policies of the adjacent administration.

Whatever the outcome, Conway hopes radical pb with kindness towards 1 another.

"On Wednesday, the prima is gonna rise, the birds are gonna beryllium singing and things are gonna beryllium possibly not normal, but beingness is going to continue," said Conway.

On Election Day, voting centers crossed the region volition beryllium unfastened from 7am to 8pm.

For elector information, you tin spell to the county website.