UPDATE: 191,700 ballots remaining to be counted in Contra Costa County

11/7/24 UPDATE: As of 12:43 p.m. the County Elections office claims 191,700 unprocessed ballots remaining to be counted

As of Wednesday; no breakdowns by city

By Allen D. Payton According to Dawn Kruger, Media Outreach Coordinator for the Elections Division of the Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder’s Office, as of Wednesday morning there were still as many as 90,000 ballots remaining to be counted in the county. “We had tallied 291,000 ballots as of Election Day. All the ballots received at the polling places, those were counted on Election Night, except for the Vote By Mail ballots submitted in their sealed envelopes at polling places,” she stated. Those are part of “the upwards of 90,000 ballots we received included from Drop Boxes which were picked up last on Tuesday afternoon. Those still have to be processed with signature verification, then extraction, then tally,” Kruger explained. Asked about the additional ballots from the Drop Boxes she said, “The boxes were locked at 8:00 p.m. and the ballots were picked up the following morning.” “We expect to add all those ballots to the results on Friday’s update,” Kruger stated. “But we continue to receive ballots placed in the mail on Election Day which can be received up to seven days following, which is Tuesday, the 12th. “We’ll have a better understanding this afternoon.” Kruger added. “By tomorrow afternoon at end of the day, we’ll have more of an exact count up on our website.” She also shared they do not have a breakdown by city of remaining ballots to be counted. 11/7/24 UPDATE: Estimated Number of Unprocessed Ballots in County According to the Contra Costa Elections office, the estimated number of unprocessed ballots as of 12:43 p.m. on Thursday, total 191,700: Ballots voted at a voting location – 200 Vote-by-mail ballots received on or before Election Day – 170,000 Vote-by-mail ballots received after Election Day – 6,500 Provisional ballots – 6,000 Conditional Voter Registration Provisional ballots – 6,000 Other (In Review, Damaged) – 3,000 Total – 191,700. That’s over 101,000 more ballots than the estimated unprocessed ballots figure provided earlier in the day. The next results update is expected at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8. The Elections office has 28 days to certify the election.