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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - With the November wide predetermination conscionable a fewer weeks away, ballots were sent retired to each registered voters successful Fresno County Monday morning.
James Kus is the Fresno County Clerk and says voters should expect to person their ballots successful the message this week.
“If a elector hasn't received their vote-by-mail ballot by adjacent Monday, Oct. 14, they should springiness america a telephone and we'll get a caller 1 sent retired to them," helium said.
According to Kus, determination are 3 ways to formed your vote: in-person, utilizing a driblet container location, oregon mailing your ballot in.
He explained determination is plentifulness of clip to marque definite your ballot is counted, but determination are a fewer cardinal dates to support successful mind. That includes the deadline to registry to ballot online.
"You tin proceed to registry each the mode up to 15 days earlier the election. And that is Oct. 21," Kus said. "After the 21st, you tin ballot and you tin register, but you person to spell successful idiosyncratic to either my downtown bureau oregon 1 of our ballot centers, which archetypal unfastened connected Oct. 26th."
Fresno County has 53 ballot centers wherever Central Valley assemblage members tin formed their vote.
On Oct. 26, voters tin entree 10 centers successful Fresno County. Kus said an further 43 centers volition unfastened the play earlier Election Day.
Starting Oct. 8, you'll besides beryllium capable to driblet your ballot disconnected astatine a drop-off location.
If you're readying to ballot successful this election, Kus explained whichever mode you determine to formed your ballot, it indispensable beryllium successful by 8 p.m. connected Nov. 5.
"Vote centers and my downtown bureau volition unfastened astatine 7 a.m. and they'll adjacent astatine 8 p.m. The US Postal Service volition halt doing postmarks astatine 8 p.m. So, you person to person your ballots into the station bureau postmarked to us," helium said. "For our driblet boxes, we volition really spell retired and fastener those astatine 8 p.m. Anyone who's successful enactment to usage those driblet boxes to ballot astatine that constituent tin enactment their ballot in, but nary 1 volition beryllium allowed to travel successful aft that point. Once those boxes are locked up, if idiosyncratic leaves their ballot connected top, we're not going to number it."
Additionally, determination are changes disposable to Fresno County voters this year, including a live vote-by-mail option.
"A elector tin really bring successful their completed vote-by-mail ballot and bring it to the ballot center. They tin spot the ballot really spell into the tabulator instrumentality close determination successful beforehand of them," Kus said. "I precise overmuch promote anyone who wants to usage the unrecorded vote-by-mail process to travel successful early. Do not hold until Election Day. They're going to beryllium lines to statesman with, and this would conscionable marque it longer."
Election officials volition besides supply different mode to verify people's signatures online.
"We're besides present offering online signature cures. If your vote-by-mail ballot has been challenged due to the fact that you forgot to enactment your signature connected it, oregon if your signature itself has been challenged, we bash person an enactment wherever you tin spell online and supply a signature. You volition person to beryllium capable to motion online," Kus said.
These additions purpose to marque things easier for voters and assistance guarantee accusation is accurately and securely processed.
Kus says predetermination information is thing that remains apical of caput for the clerk's office.
"Security's a large interest with our bureau here. Whenever we're handling ballots, whenever we're moving with ballots, we're utilizing two-person teams, we're utilizing tracking," helium said. "If determination are immoderate questions, members of the nationalist tin springiness america a call. Our processes are unfastened for observation, whether it beryllium voting, whether it beryllium our tabulation oregon vote-by-mail processing, each of that is unfastened and disposable during our regular enactment hours."
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