'Greater than any election': Fresno County sees high in-person voter turnout

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - While Election Day is over, Fresno County's predetermination clerks are inactive hard astatine enactment processing and collecting ballots.

With results coming successful passim the day, Fresno County's latest elector turnout results basal astatine much than 200,000 voters, retired of the much than 500,000 registered voters.

Surrounding counties besides had a 40% elector turnout. 

The outlier? Mariposa County had a 72% elector turnout.

The Fresno County Election Board reports a precocious in-person elector turnout. 

With predetermination time numbers and aboriginal voting, determination was a full of 57,000 in-person voters. 

“Even connected apical of that, implicit 3000 same-day registrants,” Fresno County's Election Clerk, James Kus said.

There are 54 voting centers crossed Fresno County, immoderate saw implicit a 1000 in-person voters connected Election Day.

“In-person turnout was greater than immoderate predetermination that we've had successful Fresno County since we went to the Voter's Choice Act, truthful that's 1 happening we decidedly know, we person beaten November 2020 for in-person voting," Kus said.

However, it's excessively aboriginal to find the last elector turnout arsenic we are inactive awaiting vote-by-mail ballots, which are coming done the U.S. Postal Service, and could proceed to get until Nov. 12. 

“California instrumentality requires america to number immoderate VBM (vote-by-mail) that comes in and is judged bully and has been postmarked by Election Day, truthful if it does get received late, we volition beryllium capable to number it.” 

While they proceed to cod and process ballots astatine the predetermination warehouse connected East Hamilton Avenue, Kus says the information measures successful spot to support the integrity of the counting process and guarantee nary 1 votes twice.

“If you voted astatine a ballot center, each of your vote-by-mail ballots are blocked, and the aforesaid happening here, erstwhile your vote-by-mail ballot is processed, you're blocked from voting astatine a ballot center, truthful we person that benignant of extortion that goes connected there, we bash sometimes person to nonstop much than 1 ballot to somebody, but erstwhile we bash that, we really cancel the older ones that we send,” Kus said.

Vote-by-mail ballots are inactive coming in, and drop-in message ballots are inactive being processed. 

We tin expect the adjacent effect update connected Thursday astatine 5 p.m.