County Elections Office continues to process ballots
Post-election audit planned for today
The Inyo County Elections Office continues to process mail-in ballots from the Nov. 8 general election, reporting Tuesday that its current unprocessed count was at about 98.
This total includes 22 ballots pending signature confirmation and 76 provisional ballots, according to the Elections Office. Ballots requiring signature confirmations may be process through Nov. 21 and provisional ballots that will be processed on Nov. 22.
Inyo County is scheduled to conduct a 1% postelection manual tally of the ballots cast in the general election to provide transparency of the election process.
The random selection of 1% of all precincts for the required post-election audit is set for 9 a.m. today in the county Elections Office located in the Inyo County Courthouse in Independence.
The audit will take place immediately preceding the random draw and will continue until completed.
The registrar of Voters will publish the election audit results and materials on its website.
The public is invited to observe all processes. If you would like to be an election observer, contact the Inyo County Elections Office, (760) 878-0224.
Updated results
What follows are results from the county’s Elections Office released Tuesday afternoon. The office has announced that its next update will be posted by or before Nov. 23.
To see the complete report and subsequent reports, go to www.elections.inyocounty.us.
Inyo County sheriff
Stephanie Rennie, 3,546 (51 .53%)
Eric Pritchard, 3,335 votes (48.47%) * Undervotes, 553 ** Overvotes, 1
District 1 supervisor
Trina M. Orrill, 872 votes (55.75%)
Jeff Gabriel, 692 votes
(44.25%) * Undervotes, 172 ** Overvotes, 0
District 3 supervisor
Scott E. Marcellin, 761 votes (52.85%)
Kody Jaeger, 679 votes (47.15%)
* Undervotes, 93 ** Overvotes, 1
Big Pine School Board
(two positions)
The two candidates receiving the most votes Tuesday were:
Kami Bayer, 419 votes (3.36%)
Adelina Rico, 416 votes (33.12%)
* Undervotes, 404 ** Overvotes, 2
Bishop School Board
(three positions)
The three candidates receiving the most votes Tuesday were:
Claudia Moya-Tanner, 2,252 votes (17.93%)
Virginia Figueroa, 1,923 votes (15.31%)
Joshua R. Nicholson, 1,803 votes (14.35%) * Undervotes, 3,414 ** Overvotes, 84
Lone Pine School Board
(three positions) The three candidates receiving the most votes Tuesday were:
Scott William Kemp, 488 votes (27.51%)
Krista L. McKraySullivan, 375 votes (21.14%)
Rachel M. Yourgules, 366 votes (20.63%) * Undervotes, 734 ** Overvotes, 3
Owens Valley School Board
(three positions)
The three candidates receiving the most votes Tuesday were:
Joey Peterson, 182 votes (28.62%)
Allie Whisler, 172 votes (27.04%)
Alisa M. Lynch, 153 votes (24.06%) * Undervotes, 258 ** Overvotes, 0
Trona School Board
(three positions)
The three candidates receiving the most votes Tuesday were:
Cathy Heseman, 16 votes (34.04%)
Skylar Wayne McCullar, 13 votes (27.66%)
Priscilla R. Benadom, 10 votes (21.28%) * Undervotes, 28 ** Overvotes, 0
* An “undervote” is a contest where a voter marked less than the allowable “vote for” number. For example, if you can “vote for 2” and a voter marks one candidate, one tally will go to that candidate, and the other tally will go to “Undervote.”
** Overvotes are ballots in which more than the allowable “vote for” number was exceeded and none are counted.