Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis is asking for patience as the process to count hundreds of thousands of unprocessed ballots continues three days after the election.
As of Thursday evening, Dupuis’ office had counted 233,629 ballots, with an estimated 460,245 remaining, the largest percentage of outstanding ballots in the state.
On Friday, Dupuis said it will take a couple of weeks to work through those votes.
“It takes time to get the large number of Vote by Mail ballots staged for counting,” he said in an email.
“We understand the community’s interest in seeing the results as soon as possible,” Dupuis said. “We ask for their understanding as we process a very large number of Vote by Mail votes that were turned in on Election Day.”
This election cycle, 427,601 people in Alameda County cast vote-by-mail ballots on or before Tuesday, out of an estimated total of 693,874 ballots cast, according to a report posted on the California Secretary of State’s website.