Blue Lake voters planning to cast a ballot in the November election may need revise their voting plans. “For the first time in the almost 50 years that we’ve been voting in Blue Lake, there will be no place to vote in-person in our city,” Lin and David Glen wrote in an email to the […]
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Humboldt County Updates Election Results, Adding 10K Ballots to
The Humboldt County Elections Office released its first post-election report this afternoon, adding more than 10,000 ballots to the ongoing tally. No races shifted with the additional tally, though some leads grew and others shrank. Most notably, Juan Pablo Cervantes, who ended Election Night with a slim lead over Tiffany Hunt Nielsen in the race […]
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Thousands of Ballots Still to be Counted in June 7 Election
More than 20,400 ballots from the June 7 election remain to be counted, including 19,962 mail-ins, according to the county Elections Office. While the die appears to be be cast in several races, including Cheryl Dillingham’s apparent victory to become the county’s next auditor-controller, Stacey Eads’ in the district attorney’s race, incumbent Steve Madrone’s in […]
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Bushnell Takes Lead in Tight Second District Supes Race with Latest Election Report
The Humboldt County Elections Office issued its second post-election report this afternoon, adding about 10,000 ballots to the ongoing tally and pushing Second District supervisor challenger Michelle Bushnell into a narrow lead over two-term incumbent Estelle Fennell. With 10,016 votes cast in the Second District race, Bushnell now leads by 34 votes, with an estimated […]
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Final Election Night Report Leaves Lots of Ballots Yet to be Tallied
The final election night results are in and, well, they don’t feel very final. The final election night report added another 1,890 ballots to the mix, for a running total of 41,869 counted thus far, representing about 49 percent of the county’s registered voters. But a lot of votes remain to be counted — likely […]
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Third Return: Ballot Tallies Continue to Trickle In
The Humboldt County Elections Office has released its third batch of results, adding nearly 1,661 ballots for a total of 39,979 votes counted thus far, representing about 47 percent of registered voters. The second return doesn’t seem to change a whole lot. In the county’s Second District supervisorial runoff, incumbent Estelle Fennell holds a slimming […]
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Second Return Adds About 2K Ballots to Tallies, Most Races Remain Wide Open
The Humboldt County Elections Office has released its second batch of results, adding nearly 1,956 ballots to the initial tally of more than 36,000. The second return doesn’t seem to change a whole lot. In the county’s Second District supervisorial runoff, incumbent Estelle Fennell holds a 413-vote advantage over challenger Michelle Bushnell, and holds about […]
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First Returns: Fennell Holds Early Lead, All Local Ballot Measures Currently Faring Well
Incumbent Second District Humboldt County Supervisor Estelle Fennell has jumped out to a seemingly strong early lead in her runoff with challenger Michelle Bushnell, taking 54 percent of the first batch of ballots reported — a batch swelled by tens of thousands of vote by mail ballots. As reported prior, it’s hard to know exactly […]
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Elections Office: A Quarter of HumCo’s Registered Voters Have Already Cast Ballots
Roughly a quarter of Humboldt County’s registered voters have already cast ballots, according to Registrar of Voters Kelly Sanders. With the state having pivoted to an all vote-by-mail election and officials having urged voters to get their ballots filled out and in the mail — or one of the official ballot drop boxes located throughout […]
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Access Humboldt Announces Voter Education Effort; Elections Office Reminds Folks to Register
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for months, you’re probably aware that Election Day is less than two weeks away. And if you’re freaking out because you’ve been entirely consumed by watching national pundits froth at the mouth over faraway congressional races and don’t know where you stand on local candidates and measures, take […]
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UPDATE: Madrone’s Fifth District Lead Seems Insurmountable
UPDATE: Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Kelly Sanders just told the Journal that the only ballots that remain outstanding in the Fifth District are the up-to-315 provisional ballots from Election Day, which still haven’t been vetted or counted, and another 16 or so vote by mail ballots that have yet to be scanned. With a […]
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Want to Vote in June? Register by the Stroke of Midnight
Monday, May 21, is the last day to register to vote in California’s June 5 primary election, which will see residents in the Fourth and Fifth Districts marking their choice for supervisor, the first contested judgeship in decades and an unusually dynamic battle for auditor-controller — not to mention several unchallenged races along with candidates […]