'Greater than any election': Fresno County sees high inperson voter turnout
Nov 06, 2024
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - While Election Day is over, Fresno County's election clerks are still hard at work processing and collecting ballots.
With results coming in throughout the day, Fresno County's latest voter turnout results stand at more than 200,000 voters, out of the more than 500,000 registered voters.
Surrounding counties also had a 40% voter turnout.
The outlier? Mariposa County had a 72% voter turnout.
The Fresno County Election Board reports a high in-person voter turnout.
With election day numbers and early voting, there was a total of 57,000 in-person voters.
“Even on top of that, over 3000 same-day registrants,” Fresno County's Election Clerk, James Kus said.
There are 54 voting centers across Fresno County, some saw over a thousand in-person voters on Election Day.
“In-person turnout was greater than any election that we've had in Fresno County since we went to the Voter's Choice Act, so that's one thing we definitely know, we have beaten November 2020 for in-person voting," Kus said.
However, it's too early to determine the final voter turnout as we are still awaiting vote-by-mail ballots, which are coming through the U.S. Postal Service, and could continue to arrive until Nov. 12.
“California law requires us to count any VBM (vote-by-mail) that comes in and is judged good and has been postmarked by Election Day, so if it does get received late, we will be able to count it.”
While they continue to collect and process ballots at the election warehouse on East Hamilton Avenue, Kus says the security measures in place to maintain the integrity of the counting process and ensure no one votes twice.
“If you voted at a vote center, all of your vote-by-mail ballots are blocked, and the same thing here, when your vote-by-mail ballot is processed, you're blocked from voting at a vote center, so we have that kind of protection that goes on there, we do sometimes have to send more than one ballot to somebody, but when we do that, we actually cancel the older ones that we send,” Kus said.
Vote-by-mail ballots are still coming in, and drop-in mail ballots are still being processed.
We can expect the next result update on Thursday at 5 p.m.