MENDOCINO CO., 6/8/26 — Since the Mendocino County elections office released an unprocessed ballots report last week, more than 1,000 additional ballots came in through the mail, as allowed by California elections code.
In a statement issued after 4 p.m. Friday, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder Katrina Bartolomie said there are 17,720 ballots left to count for Mendocino County. This means 1,148 ballots were received after the unprocessed ballots report came out Thursday afternoon, reporting 16,572 unprocessed ballots.
California elections code 3020 states that county elections offices may receive ballots postmarked on or before election day and received by the elections office no more than seven days after election day.
Ballots left to count include 3,618 ballots for the District 3 county supervisor race, 4,216 ballots for the District 5 race and 16,853 ballots left to count for Measure A, according to Bartolomie.
Bartolomie said the unprocessed ballots report on the elections page of the county website will be updated each Thursday afternoon until the election results are certified.
Signatures to match? To what previous signature? Voter registration card? Are those on hand, to match? It’s just beyond strange, that no ID, is required, but signatures, must match. So mail ballots, have many flaws, and inconsistencies. How can a person check, if their ballot has been counted? My envelope came back in the mail last time, from post office. Which the poll place and county office, both stated, that’s impossible. But the impossible happened. Luckily, it came back, on voting day, so I took to the poles. If it was one day later, my vote would have been null & voided, because post office, sent it back.
I want to trust the system, but when the time it takes, the mistakes made in mailing, last time, it makes me wonder, if there is a better, safer, faster way. Computers can be hacked, so I get the delay of mail in. But I wish we could all get a verification, our votes, went through the process.
You can use BallotTrax or Where’s My Ballot at the CA.gov website to track your ballot and see if it’s counted. Every ballot has its own number.
The way our election operates has been tried and tested and is the law of the land. It’s always been this way. Why are mail in ballots now all of a sudden an issue? Our President harps on mail in voting that it is corrupt and anyone who does it is corrupt and then he turns around and mails in his vote.
Personally, I wish California did not take so long to count votes and the state should do a better job explaining how the system works to voters.
If voter ID became a requirement, I believe the onus should be on the government to issue and provide voter identification cards to all legal voters. Just like they provide us a SSN and auto enroll our youth into a military draft.
For now, the law and system is what it is and thankfully there hasn’t ever been proof of any major instances of voter fraud. Certainly nothing that would ever change an election.
The anti-Trump voters use the catchall phrase, “Well even if there is rampant cheating going on in the late-night counting, it’s not enough to change the outcome of the election. Oh, and by the way, there has not been one piece of evidence presented in any court that has upheld the rumor of cheating have taken place, not ever.” Your “D” vote is safe with us. We know what is best, for you, the State, the Country.
So the day after the election the conservative candidate is ahead and the new tax is losing. But after several nights of counting we wake up to a different result, the conservative candidate lost and the new tax passed.
The vote count would be faster if the requirement was that all ballots must be received by election day. When I first voted in Mendocino County, it was in person after showing ID and signing an election book on election day. Results were generally announced that night at the courthouse.