By Ricardo Roura
30 Oct 2024, 11:42 PM EDT
Less than a week before the elections, more than four million Californians They already cast their vote in advance.
According to the California Secretary of State, County recorder’s offices have accepted about 4.2 million ballots that were returned by mailrepresenting 21% of the Golden State’s 22.8 million registered voters.
Officials said that The percentage varies according to each county.
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In Los Angeles County, 13% of the ballots have been received of registered voters, while in Orange and Ventura counties the percentage is higher, at almost 22%.
In the 2020 presidential election, the number of mail-in votes reached record levels, when 86.7% of California residents turned in their vote by mail. In total, 80.7% of registered voters cast their ballots in the November 2020 election.
The number of votes cast is expected increase rapidly over the next few days the more Californians go to early voting locations in person.
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Early voting, in which registered residents cast their votes in person before Election Day, it started from this saturday.
More than half of California counties, including Los Angeles County, have adopted a vote center model, which allows all voters to cast their ballot anywhere in person in the county.
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California voters were reported to have cast another 15,000 ballots, but county recorder’s offices They are still reviewing them to determine if they are accepted.
Among these ballots are those that require additional signature verification to confirm their authenticity, so just over 1% of all ballots cast are currently under review.
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