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Election Update
In the two weeks since Election Day, more than 381,500 Vote-By-Mail and provisional ballots have been added to the Orange County results of the 2024 Presidential General Election. In each statewide election held since 2018, the number of ballots the Registrar of Voters has processed during the 14 days after Election Day has ranged from 240,000 to 384,000 ballots. We estimate we are still processing about 40,000 challenged Vote-By-Mail ballots, provisional ballots, and damaged or mismarked ballots that require duplication. These types of ballots take additional time to process. They are the type of ballots we’ve been processing since Thursday, November 14, which is why the number of ballots added to the results since then has ranged from 3,700 to 11,600 ballots. These numbers are updated at 5 p.m. each weekday and posted at ocvote.gov/results. New State law (Assembly Bill 3184) enacted just for this election provides voters the opportunity to cure a signature challenge to their Vote-By-Mail ballot up until 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 1, and prohibits the Registrar of Voters from certifying the results of the election before December 3. California elections laws prioritize voter access and voter participation over speed. Orange County is committed to making sure that every eligible vote is processed, and counted accurately. We produce detailed reports and maps focusing on overall results and results by precinct, by districts, by cities, and more. These detailed reports can be found by visiting ocvote.gov/detailed-results and ocvote.gov/map-central.
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| Current Tweet Did you know the signature on each returned mail ballot is compared to the voter's registration signature? If the voter forgets to sign the return envelope or three ROV staff members determine the signatures do not compare, the voter is contacted via |
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| One Percent Manual Tally On Monday, November 18, the Orange County Registrar of Voters team started hand counting about 50,000 ballots for the One Percent Manual Tally audit. All ballots within the 85 precincts selected for the audit are manually tallied by four-person teams, called audit boards, and compared to the voting system results. Today, November 19, there were 22 audit boards hand counting. Each team manually tallies the ballots following the California Uniform Vote Counting Standards. State regulations require that each audit board contain:
On November 7, we randomly selected one percent (23) of our 2,294 precincts to include in the audit. The audit also must include all 171 contests on the ballot for this election. So, we added 62 more precincts to the audit. Last week we began preparing for this audit by laying out and organizing about 7,900 batches of scanned ballots on nearly 120 tables to make the ballots from the precincts included in the audit easier to find. After the ballots were verified, they were attached to their ballot retrieval sheet and securely organized and stored in preparation of the start of the One Percent Manual Tally this week.
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| Official Canvass During the Official Election Canvass, the Orange County Registrar of Voters finishes processing all Vote-By-Mail and Provisional ballots. We also conduct several tests and audits and account for the equipment and materials used in the election. State law prohibits us from completing this canvass before Tuesday, December 3. In addition to the One Percent Manual Tally and Risk Limiting Audit, our canvass tasks include:
For the latest information about daily canvass activities, view the Public Observation Calendar at ocvote.gov/observe.
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| Risk Limiting Audit We expect to start a second audit to confirm the voting system results on Friday, November 22. This voluntary audit is called a Risk Limiting Audit. Audit software uses a 20-digit seed number to randomly select ballots with select contests on them for manual examination by four-person teams. The software identifies the number of ballots to review needed to reach a confidence level that the voting system results of these selected contests are correct. On Friday, November 8, a public draw was conducted using dice to generate the 20-digit random seed number. We expect to start pulling for the audit on Thursday. Details on the audit can be found on our website at ocvote.gov/rla.
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| Election Accuracy Verified Before certification on December 3, the accuracy of the about 450 ballot scanners used in the 2024 Presidential General Election will be verified. During this process called the Post-Election Logic and Accuracy Test, we will feed 25 test ballots through each and every scanner to make sure they still count votes accurately. Starting tomorrow, November 20, we will start testing the scanners in our office that processed Vote-By-Mail and provisional ballots. We will then test all of the ballot scanners used in our 184 Vote Centers. The same Logic and Accuracy test was performed on every scanner before they were used in this election as well. Additionally, before and after every election we confirm that the voting system software has not been modified. |
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