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Date: Friday, November 8, 2024
Clackamas County Elections Continues to Accurately and Efficiently Process On-time Ballots for the November 5, 2024 General Election
The next unofficial election results release will be posted today, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m.
Oregon City, OR – The fifth unofficial election results report was released at 4:50 p.m. yesterday, Nov. 7. To-date Clackamas County Elections has tallied 201,528 ballots, and all are part of yesterday’s unofficial election results update. The next unofficial election results release will be today, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m.
Unofficial election results and the election results release schedule are posted online at https://www.clackamas.us/elections/unofficial-november-5-2024-general-election-results. Unofficial election results will continue to follow that schedule.
Voter Turnout Update
As of end of day Thursday, Nov. 7 estimated voter turnout has settled at 78.2% (250,656 voters) for the November 5, 2024 General Election. This updated figure includes all ballots received Election Day, and all on-time ballots received through the USPS mail through Thursday.
Clackamas County Elections will continue to receive and process on-time ballots through the USPS mail through Tuesday, Nov. 12. In addition, voters who forgot to sign their ballot return envelope or their signature did not match have up until 21 days after Election Day (Nov. 26) to address the issue so that we can count their vote. Voters are notified via letter if their signature has been challenged. Voters signed up for Track Your Ballot are also notified via text, phone, or email.
Ballot Processing Update
Clackamas County Elections added 16,800 ballots to unofficial election results Thursday, Nov. 7. At the end of day yesterday the office has approximately 49,000 ballots left in-house to count and add to unofficial election results. We continue to be fully staffed, working accurately and efficiently to receive, verify, and count every eligible vote.
The counting rate has slowed as we finished tallying the bulk of ballots yesterday and shifted focus to tallying ballots that take more time to process. These include ballots that need to be manually received and accepted, ballots needing additional signature review, ballots where voters voted their first ballot after being issued a replacement ballot, ballots received from military and overseas voters, and damaged ballots that need to be duplicated before they can be scanned.
Clerk Catherine McMullen has a full team of sworn election staff working extended hours through the week until all ballots have been processed and tallied. Election staff are working today until 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 9, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The observation schedule is posted online at clackamas.us/elections/november-5-2024-general-election. Final official results will be certified Dec. 2.
Clerk McMullen will provide her last daily media update at 2 p.m. today via Zoom to address any election-related inquiries. Media representatives may register by emailing PIO@clackamas.us.
For more information and updates on voting and elections in Clackamas County, visit clackamas.us/elections.
Contacts: Catherine McMullen, County Clerk and Justin Larsen, Elections Manager | countyclerk@clackamas.us or 503-655-8510