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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - It's present officially implicit a week since Election Day and ballots successful Fresno County are inactive getting counted.
Tuesday night, the Fresno County Election's bureau updated their ballot totals connected their website, adding 48,000 much votes.
Tuesday was the deadline for mail-in ballots, postmarked by Nov. 5, to marque it to the region elections office. But adjacent with these votes present in, predetermination officials accidental it is not implicit yet, contempt 271,000 ballots counted countywide.
"Our absorption present is going to get the ballots successful and counted," Fresno County Clerk James Kus said.
He said workers person been moving astir the timepiece since predetermination time to get each and each ballot counted.
"They're going to proceed to tally until it's done. And we've got 100-odd radical moving here, positive our downtown bureau doing same-day registrations and different processes. So a batch of efforts inactive going connected present to marque definite that we tin get everything done by that Dec. 3 deadline," helium said.
The Dec. 3 deadline marks erstwhile counties person to nonstop statesmanlike predetermination results to the caput of state, followed by the Dec. 5 deadline, which is the past time for region predetermination officials to certify predetermination results.
Kus said helium knows galore legislature and assembly races are inactive tight, and these ballots could determine who wins the race.
However, helium said they're pursuing each authorities laws and procedures.
Now that much ballots person been counted, helium said they person a amended thought of elector turnout this twelvemonth compared to years past.
"Our in-person turnout was higher than we expected. Overall turnout looks similar it's going to beryllium a small little than what we saw successful November of 2020, But we're inactive a small excessively soon to truly accidental for definite wherever that's going to beryllium yet. So large patterns that in-person turnout, it was truly impressive," Kus said.
He besides said it is expected that much votes volition beryllium added to the website connected Friday.
