Voters return the polls to fill Kevin McCarthy's seat in the US House of Representatives

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Voters returned to the polls Tuesday to elite who volition service the remainder of Kevin McCarthy's word successful the US House of Representatives.

That word expires successful January 2025.

If a campaigner gets much than fractional of the ballot successful Tuesday's peculiar election, they could beryllium sent to Congress wrong weeks, but if cipher secures a majority, voters volition beryllium asked to prime from the apical 2 successful different predetermination successful May.

"If we person a bulk victor today, oregon today's election, past that campaigner could really beryllium seated by the extremity of this month," said James Kus, Fresno County Registrar of Voters. "So, that would beryllium a 9 period play that they would beryllium filling the seat."

Just 2 weeks ago, voters successful Congressional District 20 saw galore of the aforesaid names connected their ballots.

Then, they were voting for a campaigner to service a afloat two-year word starting successful January 2025.

In that race, voters selected Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and Assemblyman Vince Fong, some Republicans, to look disconnected successful November's General Election.

People casting their ballots successful idiosyncratic successful Clovis Tuesday greeting said that contempt knowing the result of that predetermination earlier casting this ballot, it didn't alteration who they voted for.

"No, I'm hoping... I'm conscionable hoping for a bully outcome, for bully radical to bash the close happening for our authorities and our country," said Monica Strambi, Clovis local.

The archetypal circular of results, expected not agelong aft voting ends astatine 8 pm, volition see each the vote-by-mail ballots already received. At that time, we'll cognize if the predetermination results reflector March 5th.

As for updates beyond 8, Kus said determination could beryllium less than we spot connected a mean predetermination night.

"The bulk of our 32,000 volition beryllium included successful that archetypal update. Then, each of the in-person voting for the past 29 days and contiguous volition beryllium included successful our updates, which we mightiness lone person 1 of contiguous due to the fact that we lone person 5 voting locations," said Kus.

Whoever is elected volition correspond astir 800,000 radical successful parts of Kern, Fresno, Tulare, and Kings Counties.

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