LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Voters across Lake County who aren't voting as absentees will be heading to the polls on Tuesday to take part in the presidential primary and to cast votes in several local races.

In addition to presidential and Congressional primaries, state seats, a bond measure for the Kelseyville Unified School District and the Board of Supervisors' seats for District 1, 4 and 5 are on this year's primary ballot.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Lake County's vote-by-mail – or absentee – registration percentage has been rising over the last decade, and in recent years more absentee than precinct ballots have been cast. Those trends have held true in the last two presidential primaries.

Absentee ballots were mailed out in early May, and Lake County Registrar of Voter Diane Fridley and her staff began processing them on May 17, work that will continue through Election Day and into the official canvass period that follows. However, the results of those absentee counts won't be released until after 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Some voters may not have received their primary voting materials yet, and for those who didn't, Fridley advised them to call call her office at 707-263-2372 so they can be given the location of their polling place.

A polling place locater also is available at http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place/ .

Voters needing materials also can visit Registrar of Voters Office – which is located in Room 209 on the second floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St. in Lakeport – before 8 p.m. Tuesday to cast a ballot.

Fridley urged people who need the materials to contact her office as soon as possible, as no ballot may be cast or counted past 8 p.m. on Election Day.

For those vote-by-mail voters who haven't yet put their ballots in the mail, the California Secretary of State's Office reported that mailed ballots must be postmarked on or before Tuesday, June 7, and received by the county elections office no later than June 10.

Absentee voters who have sent in their ballots and want to check to see if the ballot arrived at the elections office and has been counted – and, if not, the reason – can find a ballot return status check on the Registrar of Voters' Web site at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/ROV/BStatus.htm or call 888-235-6730.

Lake County News will post ballot count updates beginning after 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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