LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lake County Registrar of Voters said Thursday that its staff is now in the midst of counting thousands of remaining ballots from this week’s special statewide election.

The Registrar’s Office on Tuesday night issued initial returns on the vote on Proposition 50, which will set in motion temporary redistricting.

That preliminary count tallied 10,358 votes, with 51.14%, or 5,297, in favor of Prop. 50 and 48.86% or 5,061, opposed. 

In its first update on Thursday regarding the estimated number of unprocessed ballots, the Registrar’s Office said it had a total of 10,373 still to count.
 
That estimate includes 9,827 vote-by-mail ballots, 386 provisional or conditional ballots and 160 vote-by-mail ballots that are under further review. 

In addition, ballots postmarked on or before Election Day are still coming in, and must be received by Nov. 12 to be counted.

Statewide, the Secretary of State’s Office said 8,768,221 ballots from 18,399 precincts have been processed and 2,682,623 ballots remain to be counted.

The preliminary statewide results show the measure leading so far with a 63.9% to 36.1% margin, or 5,681,795 “yes” votes to 3,214,460 “no votes,” according to the state.

The official canvass for the election on Proposition 50 will continue until December.

The Secretary of State’s Office said county elections officials must complete final official results on Dec. 4. The Secretary of State will certify results on Dec. 12.

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