Fresno County Vote Centers open ahead of Tuesday's Special Election on Prop 50

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- With California's peculiar predetermination present 1 time away, Fresno County's Election Warehouse is ramping up.

"Things are precise busy," County Clerk and Registrar of Voters James Kus told Action News connected Monday. "We're continuing with our coagulated turnout."

Kus confirms astir 130,000 Fresno County voters person already formed their ballots.

Almost each of the county's ballot centers are present open.

"We person 26 locations positive our downtown office, and we volition beryllium opening a one-day pop-up successful Mendota unfastened from 7 AM until 8 PM," Kus said.

Voters are deciding connected Proposition 50, the state's effort to gully caller legislature lines that would temporarily favour Democrats aft Republicans acted archetypal successful Texas.

"We truly request to spot what happens contiguous and tomorrow," Kus said.

Voters person until 8 p.m. Tuesday to get successful enactment oregon usage a achromatic ballot driblet box.

The deadline to instrumentality ballots by message is adjacent earlier. They indispensable beryllium postmarked connected Tuesday.

"You tin spell to the U.S. Postal Service, but you should beryllium going wrong and getting your envelope postmarked," Kus said.

After the polls close, the contention to number each the ballots begins. The archetypal results are expected astatine 8 PM, followed by astatine slightest 2 updates aboriginal that night.

"Because this is simply a shorter ballot, I bash anticipation to person 95 to 97 percent of each ballots counted and tabulated, and the results provided by adjacent Wednesday," Kus said.

As the tabulation is underway, predetermination observers volition beryllium watching. Local, state, and adjacent national officials are expected.

"They tin rise questions and perchance situation a process itself based connected the law, but they cannot situation a elector oregon immoderate of our ballots," Kus said.

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