Marin County Sees At Least 90 Percent Voter Turnout: CA Election

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MARIN COUNTY, CA — With more than 52,000 ballots left to count and tally in Marin County, election officials still don't have an exact figure of how many ballots were cast Tuesday. But the county Registrar of Voters Lynda Roberts assured that the voter turnout was at least 90 percent.

"The turnout changes as more ballots are counted," Roberts said Wednesday afternoon, adding that the number of vote-by-mail ballots returned so far was 81 percent of registered voters."But many ballots still need to be counted and that figure does not represent a true turnout," she said.

On Tuesday, election officials worked throughout the night and counted some 90,000 mail in ballots in addition to ballots returned in person.

The drop boxes, implemented around the state by Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order to enact safeguards on the election due to the pandemic, proved to be massively popular among Marin Voters, with 77,000 ballots returned in the boxes.

Roberts said the most popular drop box was the drive-through location at the Civic Center.

By noon on Tuesday, more than 74 percent of voters within the county had cast a ballot, with some 128,000 casting early ballots by mail and another 4,000 that had visited a vote center since they opened Oct. 31.

But this landslide of vote by mail ballots is nothing new, in the last presidential election, there were 100,442 ballots received by mail, while only 42,599 showed up to the polls. In 2016, there were 160,795 registered voters.

Tuesday, Roberts predicted a 90 percent voter turnout, but 2008 also saw a 91 percent turnout and 2016 saw 89 percent.

And for the March Primary Election, about 50 percent of voters cast their ballots before Election Day.

"So, yes, more ballots are coming in earlier," Roberts said. "However, this is the first time all voters have received a vote-by-mail ballot, so there is no good way to compare to past elections. I think people are excited to vote and the drop boxes have made a difference."

There are 175,220 registered voters in Marin County, which is widely blue, with 60 percent registered as Democrats, 13 percent registered Republicans, 4.6 percent other parties and nearly 22 percent with no identified party affiliation.

And while much of the the Golden State was wary of possible voter intimidation, protests or attempted fraud Tuesday, nothing of the sort was reported in Marin County, according to Roberts.

Some races were already called in Marin County by the Associated Press, such as two major races that slid in favor of Democratic campaigners. Incumbents District 10 Assemblyman Marc Levin and California's congressional District 2 Incumbent Jared Huffman both won their posts for reelection.

With many races left to be finalized, Marin County election officials were still working to count ballots Wednesday afternoon. The election team began counting on Oct. 26 and the first results on Tuesday included the number of vote-by-mail ballots counted up to that point and polling place ballots from the days prior.

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