Good news for election watchers: Trinity County finally reported its left-to-count ballots figure! All 58 counties have now reported their numbers, though they continue to revise them. The number of uncounted ballots statewide just dropped from 2.7 to 2.1 million. More significantly, the 7:05 pm Monday update was only the 2nd update since Wednesday to… Continue Reading
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Drip, Drip: Vote count remains slow
The Yes margin for Proposition 11 is back up to 128,632, as of today’s 4:10 pm update. 20,448 new votes were counted, and they went 54.0% Yes and 46.0% No. The number of ballots leaving the Prop 11 line blank went down, but remains 9.5% of this latest batch. Lake County finally reported its uncounted… Continue Reading
Prop 11 Margin shrinks a little more
The state continues to creep ahead in counting ballots, with another 35,000 votes reported this morning (Monday, 11/10, 10:10am update). As with the latest report Saturday, Yes votes trailed No votes in the latest batch, 47.2% Yes to 52.8% No. Fourteen percent of the new ballots contained no vote on the Prop 11 question. The… Continue Reading
First small setback for Prop 11 supporters
Saturday, November 8th, 7:09 pm update: This is our first update where Prop 11’s margin went down, as 26,907 new votes were counted and they split 38.8% Yes and 61.2% No (15.5% of them were blank on Prop 11). Prop 11’s overall vote remains 50.7% Yes, 49.3% No, and its margin remains 128,876 — 30,000… Continue Reading
Prop 11 margin continues to tick upward
In the 10:05am Saturday update, the Yes margin for Prop 11 increased from 131,159 to 133,952. With a lot of ballots still to count (2.74 million) this is not over, but it looks a little better for Prop 11 supporters every day. Saturday’s update counted 28,679 ballots. Only 9.9% were blank — the lowest percent… Continue Reading
Statewide Turnout is 79.5%
With only the two small counties left to report their “uncounted ballots” figure, we can finally give a solid figure for voter turnout: 79.5 percent. According to statistics from the California Secretary of State, this is the highest turnout level since the 1976 Presidential election, when turnout hit 81.53 percent. Continue Reading
Friday 7pm – First major update is good news for Prop 11
The first major update held good news for Prop 11 supporters: 395,494 new votes counted and they split 53.5% yes, 46.5% no, with 13.6% leaving their ballots blank. This is the first change in overall percentages for Prop 11, moving Yes up one click to 50.7% and No down to 49.3% (from 50.6 and 49.4%). Yes… Continue Reading
Friday 4:05 pm Update: Prop 11 margin continues to grow slowly
Proposition 11’s margin has grown to 107,299 votes (from 97,321 two days ago). As of 4:05pm, 66,497 more ballots have been counted. The new ballots split 53.8% yes, 46.2% no. Thirteen percent of the newly-counted ballots were blank on Prop 11. The measure’s overall support remains 50.6%. It looks like the voters leaving this measure blank… Continue Reading
Friday 1pm Prop 11 update
The Secretary of State’s 1:05 pm Friday update shows no new ballots counted. San Bernardino and a number of other counties did report their remaining uncounted ballots. There are now 2.63 million ballots uncounted statewide, excluding the five counties that have not yet reported their uncounted ballot numbers:  San Francisco, Fresno, Imperial, Lake and Trinity. If the remaining ballots come in… Continue Reading
Friday Morning Prop 11 Update
Ballot counting has resumed, if slowly. Between 3pm Wednesday and 7am Friday, only 55,000 ballots have been counted and reported to the Secretary of State. On Prop 11, of the new ballots: Yes: 25,845 (53.3%) No: 22,603 (46.7%) Blank: 7,153 (12.9% of all new cast) So the trend is positive from this small pool, but… Continue Reading