Stanislaus elections says half of Tuesday’s ballots remain to be counted
The Stanislaus County elections office has about half the ballots from Tuesday’s presidential primary left to count and expects to release updated results Monday evening.
Registrar of Voters Donna Linder said in a Wednesday evening news release that her office has counted 55,731 ballots so far and has roughly 57,000 ballots to process and count.
That includes more than 47,700 vote-by-mail ballots dropped off or received by mail Tuesday. These ballots are processed by hand, including verifying signatures and sorting by precinct, before they are scanned.
The elections office also has more than 9,700 other ballots to process, including provisional-conditional ballots. It also will count ballots received by mail within three days after the primary as long as they were postmarked no later than Tuesday.
The updated election results could affect the results in one of the three races for Stanislaus Superior Court judge.
Based on the results so far, Deputy District Attorney John Mayne has 49.11 percent of the vote, court commissioner Ken Hara has 25.9 percent and Family Justice Center attorney Jared Carrillo has 24.98 percent.
If Mayne receives more than 50 percent of the final vote, he will avoid a November runoff against whoever comes in second in Tuesday’s primary.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jeff Mangar has 57.4 percent of the vote in his race for judge. Chief Deputy District Attorney Annette Rees has 74 percent in her race for judge.
The results for Tuesday’s primary are available at stanvote.com/past-results/results.htm.
Turnout among Stanislaus County’s 261,263 registered voters now stands at 21.3 percent. Once the additional ballots are counted, turnout should be about 43 percent. Turnout was 44.4 percent in the county in the last presidential primary in June 2016.
Tuesday’s races included three for the county Board of Supervisors, California’s 10th Congressional District, which encompasses Stanislaus and southern San Joaquin counties, and the state Senate and Assembly.
Voters rejected bond measures totaling more than $140 million for five school districts, including Salida, Stanislaus Union and Patterson.
This story was originally published March 5, 2020 at 2:20 PM.
