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Election Results Updates
The most recent unofficial results of the 2024 Presidential General Election can be found on the Registrar of Voters’ website at ocvote.gov/results. The Unofficial Election Results report is updated at 5 p.m. each weekday until the election is certified by the Registrar of Voters on December 3. After updated results are posted, a What’s Left to Process report is updated as well at ocvote.gov/results/whats-left-to-count. As of 5 p.m., Monday, November 11, more than 1,250,000 ballots have been counted and about 185,000 Vote-By-Mail and provisional ballots are left to process countywide. We do not estimate how many ballots remain for a specific contest. Note: Our Unofficial Election Results only includes ballots cast in Orange County. The overall results of statewide contests or for districts that cross county lines can be viewed on the Secretary of State's website at electionresults.sos.ca.gov. Bob Page Registrar of Voters |
| Current Tweet The Unofficial Election Results report is updated at 5 p.m. each weekday until the election is certified by the Registrar of Voters. After updated results are posted, a What’s Left to Process report is also updated at |
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| Election is Open to Public Transparency is necessary for free and fair elections. The Orange County Registrar of Voters combined community outreach, process design, and technology to develop its public observation program. Accommodating large groups of observers can strengthen confidence in the election, but election officials must smartly manage observers to ensure their staff is not distracted from completing their important work efficiently and accurately. Our efforts to better educate the public include multiple community outreach events, frequent social media posts on all major platforms, and this regular newsletter. We also host an open house before each statewide election. The open house includes presentations that provide future observers an opportunity to learn about ballot processing and observation rules ahead of time. The design of the processing area has been updated to facilitate a large number of observers, while not compromising efficient ballot processing. Members of our community engagement team serve as ambassadors to help answer observer questions. We have also capped the total number of observers at 100 during each two-hour ballot processing period. To maximize transparency, we use about 100 video monitors throughout the office and multiple cameras that allow observers to clearly view the signature verification of ballots, the sorting of ballots, the extracting of ballots, the verification of any chain of custody forms, and ballot comparisons during the auditing process. But to protect private voter information, observers are prohibited from using cell phones or other devices with a camera while inside the central ballot processing area. For more information regarding what observers can and cannot do visit ocvote.gov/observe and click on the Observer Guidelines handbook. |
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| Post-election Audits To ensure the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential General Election results in the county, the Registrar of Voters conducts two audits during the Official Election Canvass. Last week, we randomly selected precincts to include in the 1% Manual Tally audit and generated the random seed that will help select the ballots for the Risk Limiting Audit. This week, we will start to pull and compile the paper ballots to prepare for the manual examination and tally of the ballots. We expect to start hand counting or manually reviewing ballots for both audits next week. 1% Manual Tally We randomly selected at least 1% of all precincts in the county. All ballots within the randomly selected precincts will be manually tallied by four-person teams and compared to results. Risk-Limiting Audit Using 10-sided dice, we generated a 20-digit random seed number. Audit software will use the seed number to randomly select ballots for manual examination by four-person teams to reach a confidence level that the outcome of a specific contest is correct. Video recordings of last week’s random draws are available at ocvote.gov/observe. For more information on the audits, please visit ocvote.gov/audit. |
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| Signature Verification Process To ensure the integrity of this election, trained Registrar of Voters staff compare the voter signature on the return envelope of every Vote-By-Mail ballot and provisional ballot cast to the voter’s signatures contained in the voter registration file. If you forgot to sign your ballot return envelope or if three Registrar of Voters’ staff members find the signature on your ballot envelope significantly differs from all signatures in your voter registration file, we will send you a notice by first-class mail giving you the opportunity to cure the signature issue. If you provided a phone number or email address with your voter registration, we will also call or email you. If you signed up for the OC Ballot Express ballot tracking service, you will receive a cure notification from the service as well. A signature issue with a Vote-By-Mail ballot can be cured up until 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 1.
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| Deadline to Cure Vote-By-Mail Ballots Assembly Bill 3184 (Berman), signed by the Governor on September 22, prohibits the Registrar of Voters from certifying the election before Tuesday, December 3 to provide voters the opportunity to cure signature challenged ballots up until 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 1. If you are notified that your ballot has been challenged for a signature issue, you can cure the issue by signing the signature verification statement mailed to you and returning it by mail, email, fax, or in person to the Registrar of Voters, 1300 S. Grand Ave., Bldg. C, Santa Ana, CA 92705. You can also submit your signature verification statement using your mobile device. A link to the secure mobile cure application is posted on our website at ocvote.gov/votebymail. If you misplace your signature verification statement, you can also download it from the Registrar of Voters website on the page linked above, print it, sign it, and submit it. |
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