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Sep 13, 2021 · But some voting patterns are still easy to predict. Voters get an “I Voted” sticker after casting their ballots in the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom at a center in San Clemente, CA on ...
(After polls close at 8 p.m., ballots cast at vote centers on election day need to travel to a county facility in the City of Industry before any of them can be tabulated, so that takes some time.)
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We're going to dive into reporting on past elections and show examples of how it wasn't true that every vote was counted by election night. Bear in mind that there are multiple examples like the following from each election year and that the certified, or final, vote count always occurs later. For the purpose of keeping this story brief, we have do...
On Nov. 1, 2020, The Arizona Republic newspaper reportedof that year's U.S. presidential election, "Actual vote counts take weeks to tabulate." The reporting also noted that, "It's possible we won't know the winners of major races for more than a week." According to newspaper archives on Newspapers.com, votes were still being counted after Election...
On Nov. 6, 2018, KQED.org reportedof Election Day, "For close races — for example, some of the hotly contested congressional contests — the final results may not be known for days, or possibly even weeks." The story added, "What will be needed tonight is generally in short supply these days: patience." We were able to quickly find newspaper article...
On Nov. 7, 2016, Utah's Deseret News newspaper publisheda story with the headline, "Here's why precinct results don't tell the whole story on election night." The reporting said, "Don't be shocked if you don't know whether or not your county voted for a certain candidate. The majority of Utah's votes are now mail-in votes, which delay the count." A...
On Nov. 5, 2014, the Burlington Free Press newspaper reportedthat Vermont's Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates in the 2014 election had chosen to wait until the morning after election night to make statements, so that all votes would have a chance to be counted. Further, we quickly found examples that showed votes were still being c...
On Oct. 30, 2012, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper reportedvia USA Today that U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney were "prepared to take their presidential campaign to the courts," in the case that "election night doesn't produce a clear winner." Election Day was on Nov. 6 in 2012. The story documented how some states...
In 2010, The New York Times reported that ballots in the state of Washington were still being counted as of Nov. 3, the day after the election. Similarly, the Naples Daily News published that votes were still being counted in Florida after Election Day. More examples were easily located on Newspapers.com, such as votes still being counted after Ele...
In 2008, a presidential election year, Election Day was on Nov. 4. On the next day, The Guardian, Politico, and many others reported that ballots were still being counted in some states. We quickly found newspaper articles that were published after the election that said it took days or even more than a week to count all of the votes in Massachuset...
On Nov. 9, 2006, two days after the 2006 election, the Billings Gazette newspaper reported that votes were still being counted in Montana. We also found that votes were still being counted in North Carolina as of Nov. 12, according to the Charlotte Observer.
On Nov. 3, 2004, the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported that votes were still being counted in a number of states for the U.S. presidential election. The same was also the case in Iowa, the Miami Herald published. These were just the two first examples we found. Election Day was on Nov. 2.
Mar 22, 2024 · The polls have closed in California. All mailed ballots need to be postmarked on or before that date. Mail-in, provisional and conditional ballots will be accepted, processed and counted for ...
Ballots returned via a secure drop box or through the mail, start processing as soon as they are received in our office. The initial results on Election Night at 8:05 p.m. reflect the majority of the vote-by-mail ballots that have been received in our office prior to Election Day.
Nov 13, 2020 · In the 2016 election, voter turnout was at 80.7% in Orange County, with 1.2 million ballots cast from 1.5 million registered voters. That marked the county’s highest election participation rate ...
Nov 16, 2022 · Jeanette Harris sorts ballots at an Orange County Registrar of Voters facility in Santa Ana on Nov. 9. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) By election day, vote-by-mail ballots have been marked, slid ...
