How in-person, vote-by-mail ballots are counted in Fresno County

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Election time is conscionable 2 weeks distant and the Fresno County Elections Office has already received 60,000 ballots.

With each those ballots each 1 indispensable conscionable definite standards to beryllium counted.

“When you spell and ballot successful idiosyncratic that way, your ballot goes straight into a tabulator. And if there's immoderate issues, the tabulator is going to fto you know, but you're going to beryllium capable to person your ballot counted close past and there," said Fresno County Registrar of Voters James Kus. 

"When you instrumentality your VBM ballot, either done the station bureau oregon done 1 of our driblet boxes oregon by dropping it disconnected astatine a ballot halfway it volition spell to our warehouse wherever it volition beryllium processed,” Kus said.

Once astatine the warehouse, the voter's signature connected the backmost of the envelope is compared to the voter's registered signature with the elections office.

“If determination are questions oregon a signature is missing we are going to scope retired to that elector we springiness them the accidental to cure the contented is with their signature,” Kus said.

From there, ballots are removed from their envelopes and past sent done voting machines to beryllium counted.

Kus says it is nonstop enactment until each ballot is counted and the predetermination is certified.

“There’s a batch of unit connected america due to the fact that everyone is looking to spot those results, that's 1 of the reasons we similar to get ballots successful early," Kus said.

For anyone with questions connected the process, Kus says they should travel down to Fresno County Elections Warehouse to spot the process for themselves.

“We marque the process arsenic disposable arsenic imaginable for anyone to travel successful and spot each measurement of the process we're doing," Kus said.

This play the elections bureau volition unfastened much than 40 polling locations for voting which volition beryllium unfastened from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each the mode done Nov. 5.