Early ballots surge in Fresno County for November election. Here's the count.

Nearly 65,000 registered voters in Fresno County have already cast their ballots about two weeks before the Nov. 5 general election.

Ballots were mailed to voters in the county starting on Oct. 7, and the first ballots began rolling in the next day. The Fresno County Elections Division received by mail about 45,000 ballots in the past two weeks, and nearly 20,000 were returned via ballot drop-off boxes scattered throughout Fresno and the rest of the county.

The total count of returned ballots as of Tuesday was 64,737, which represents almost 12.7% of the county’s 511,713 registered voters.

In the March primary, overall voter turnout was almost 31% in Fresno County by the time all of the votes were counted, Most of those – more than 140,000 – were vote-by-mail ballots, compared to just over 16,000 cast by voters at vote centers that were open in the days before the March 5 Election Day.



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