Strong voter turnout in Fresno County, 10,000 vote-by-mail ballots received a day

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Strong elector turnout implicit the play extended to Monday arsenic thousands of Fresno County voters formed their ballots with conscionable 1 time until Election Day.

"Downtown, here, we are decidedly getting a mix," Fresno County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus said. "It's mostly voters that are either dropping disconnected a ballot oregon looking to ballot successful person."

Kus says astir one-third of each Fresno County voters person already formed their ballots. Officials are receiving much than 10,000 vote-by-mail ballots a day. The contention to number them is present underway.

"We are pushing done arsenic galore vote-by-mails arsenic we tin that person travel done the driblet boxes, mail, oregon from the ballot centers overnight," Fresno County Elections Program Coordinator Nysen Armenta said.

From signature verification to slicing unfastened the envelopes and unfolding the ballots, Armenta said the process is designed to support the voter.

"The mode we adjacent enactment them into the extractors is (that) each accusation of the voters is facing distant from the worker, truthful erstwhile we region the ballot, it genuinely is simply a concealed ballot," Armenta said. "We don't cognize whose envelope it's coming retired of."

Officials expect dense turnout to widen done Tuesday erstwhile polls unfastened crossed California astatine 7 AM and adjacent astatine 8 PM.

Kus is urging everybody to skip the Election Day enactment and ballot early. In Fresno County, determination are inactive options connected Monday night.

"We've got our driblet boxes," Kus said. "We person 67 driblet boxes dispersed passim the county. Locations for some the ballot centers and the driblet boxes are disposable online astatine VoteFresnoCounty.com."

There is besides inactive clip to registry to vote. California offers same-day elector registration, but you indispensable bash it successful person, meaning you tin inactive caput to a ballot halfway connected Monday oregon Tuesday, register, and formed your ballot.