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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Voters broke records Tuesday nighttime as agelong lines built up astatine ballot centers passim Fresno County.
Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus says much than 40,000 voters turned up astatine the polls to ballot successful idiosyncratic oregon registry connected the spot.
In-person numbers acold outpaced turnout successful the 2020 statesmanlike election.
"Just based connected the precocious turnout, we had a batch of folks that are funny and possibly got funny precocious successful the process, and truthful they wanted to get retired determination to ballot and participate," Kus said.
At ballot centers from northeast Fresno to Clovis and adjacent Coalinga, it took hours for officials to adjacent the polls.
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Voters were inactive successful enactment and allowed to formed their ballot astatine 8 pm.
County predetermination officials worked past midnight to tabulate astir each the ballots voters formed successful person.
The archetypal question of information besides included each aboriginal vote-by-mail ballots, astir 150,000.
"Throughout the night, we really provided 3 updates wherever we had results coming successful from our ballot centers -- in-person voting, early, and Election Day -- that we added to that in-person," Kus said.
Counting is inactive underway astatine the Fresno County Elections Warehouse.
Officials are moving done astir 100,000 vote-by-mail ballots received astatine driblet boxes, ballot centers, and done the message connected Tuesday.
"We enactment them done our machines to process. Signature examination happens, and past they spell connected to beryllium extracted, unfolded, and boxed for tabulation," Fresno County Elections Program Coordinator Nysen Armenta explained.
Kus plans to merchandise a results update by Thursday night.
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"We'll proceed to process and process and process. If necessary, we'll enactment connected Saturday, and past aft the holiday, we'll beryllium coming backmost connected Tuesday, and we'll person different results update connected Tuesday by 5 pm," helium said.
Despite agelong lines connected Election Night and record-breaking turnout, Kus says determination were lone a fewer insignificant electioneering issues.
Overall, helium says everything went smoothly successful Fresno County.
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