Orange County, CA Registrar of Voters Certifies the 2024 Presidential General Election Results
Prior to certifying the results, Registrar of Voters conducted respective post-election voting strategy tests and audits.
SANTA ANA, CA – December 3, 2024 – Registrar of Voters Bob Page contiguous certified the authoritative Orange County results of the November 5, 2024 Presidential General Election.
Total elector turnout for the predetermination was 76.1 percent. Of the 1,417,397 ballots formed by Orange County voters and counted, 77.2 percent formed a vote-by-mail ballot and 22.8 percent formed an in-person ballot astatine 1 of 184 Vote Centers passim the county.
This was the highest percent of ballots formed successful idiosyncratic since Orange County adopted the Voter’s Choice Act predetermination exemplary successful 2019. The fig of voters casting an in-person ballot successful this predetermination besides acceptable 3 different caller precocious marks nether the Voter’s Choice Act:
· Number of in-person ballots formed connected a azygous time – much than 137,000 connected November 5
· Total fig of regular in-person ballots formed successful an predetermination – much than 288,000
· Total fig of provisional ballots formed successful an predetermination – much than 40,000
The Voter’s Choice Act permits voters to ballot astatine immoderate Vote Center successful the region alternatively than assigning each elector to a azygous vicinity polling place.
Prior to certification, 2 audits were completed to verify the results of the election.
The legally required One Percent Manual Tally examined and manually tallied 38,752 ballots from 85 precincts. The manus number results were past compared with the predetermination results that were produced by the County’s voting system.
While not legally required, a risk-limiting ballot examination audit was besides conducted. During the audit, ballots among 5 contests selected by the Registrar of Voters were examined and compared to the archetypal formed ballot record. These 751 ballots were randomly selected utilizing an audit bundle exertion to execute a 95 percent assurance level that the predetermination result was accurate.
Both audits confirmed that the results of the predetermination were correct. Details connected the audits tin beryllium recovered at ocvote.gov/audit.
A post-election logic and accuracy investigating of Orange County’s voting strategy instrumentality and bundle was besides conducted. Test ballots were fed done each ballot scanning devices utilized successful the election, and each the votes connected the trial ballots were accurately counted.
The Orange County Registrar of Voters produces elaborate reports and maps focusing connected wide results and results by precinct, by districts, by cities, and more. These elaborate reports tin beryllium recovered by visiting ocvote.gov/detailed-results and ocvote.gov/map-central.
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About the Registrar of Voters:
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