Lake County elections office reports on official canvass progress

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lake County Registrar of Voters Office offered its latest report on its progress in completing the final vote count for the Nov. 5 election.

The elections office is now in the midst of the official canvass, which it has 28 days to complete.

As of Thursday, the registrar and her staff have 11,097 ballots left to count.

Those include:

• Vote-by-mail ballots: 9,170.
• Provisional/conditional ballots: 1,453.
• Vote-by-mail ballots that require further review for various reasons: 474.

The 11,097 ballots Lake County still has to count are among the 357,115 ballots remaining to be processed statewide, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

The total number of ballots processed in California as of Thursday night was 15,813,078.

Of California’s 58 counties, only seven had completed counting ballots by Thursday, based on the Secretary of State’s unprocessed ballot count.

The Registrar of Voters Office must complete the canvass by Dec. 3. The Secretary of State’s Office will certify results on Dec. 13.

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