Still about 12,000 ballots to count

As of Tuesday, two weeks after the June 7 Primary Election, the Mendocino County Elections Office had approximately 12,000 ballots left to count, Assistant Registrar of Voters Amanda Wolter reported.

Wolter said on June 21 that approximately 9,000 ballots had been counted so far, and she could not give an estimate of when more results would be available.

Katrina Bartolomie, Mendocino County assessor-county clerk-recorder and registrar of voters, reported in an email June 20 that more results were being posted to the elections website that morning, and that the process of counting all the votes was “taking more time than usual because this ballot is so large and we are short-staffed.”

As of June 20, the results posted online by the Mendocino County Elections Office have Sheriff Matt Kendall receiving 6,663 votes (88.84 percent), and write-in candidate Trent James receiving 837 votes (11.16 percent).

Another countywide race is for Mendocino County superintendent of schools.

As of June 20, challenger Nicole Glentzer had 4,725 votes (54.91 percent) and incumbent Michelle Hutchins had 3,880 (45.09 percent).

Two Mendocino County supervisors are also up for re-election, 5th District Supervisor Ted Williams and 3rd District Supervisor John Haschak. So far, early results have both of them earning new terms.

As of June 20, Williams had 1,258 votes (78.67 percent) and John Redding 341 votes (21.33 percent); Haschak had 1,331 votes (72.81 percent) and Clay Romero 497 (27.19 percent).

Three other countywide seat holders ran uncontested, and early results had all earning 100 percent of the votes: As of June 20, Assessor-clerk-recorder Katrina Bartolomie had 7,540 votes; Auditor-controller/treasurertax-collector Chamise Cubbison had 6,877 votes, and District Attorney C. David Eyster had 6,751 votes.

Per state law, the county has 30 days to certify the election, and Wolter said staff members at the Elections Office are focusing on meeting that deadline.