Update: Lead Continues To Hold…
Nevada County has completed 85 percent of its uncounted ballots and the three days of tallies have cost us 1,350 votes of the 1,500 loss that we expected. However, El Dorado and Sacramento returns have been much higher than expected, so it now seems unlikely that we will dip into negative territory any time during the counting of the remaining ballots.
As of tonight, our lead has narrowed to 691 out of 338,307 ballots counted, or 0.20 percent. But there are only 1,792 ballots left to be counted in Nevada County, and Nevada County is the only county remaining that Brown carried. Meanwhile, there are still 29,500 unprocessed ballots from counties that we are carrying. After the final Nevada county votes are reported, our lead should steadily increase from there.
In a nutshell, we are currently receiving 50.1 percent of the vote and need 48.9 percent of the remaining votes. Of the counties still outstanding, we are carrying Butte county with 52.2 percent; El Dorado by 50.81; Placer by 50.72 and Sacramento by 53.29. Indeed, we carried 64.75 percent of today’s batch from Sacramento and 56.21 percent of the batch from El Dorado.
Again, my sincere thanks to the volunteers and donors who have worked so hard to assure a fair and accurate count.