Humboldt County, CA, May 19 Special Election

Ballot Browser independent vote count, countywide summary.

Completely Unofficial Results

The table below contains countywide summary information.

The numbers in parentheses represent hand-counted votes from ballots that Ballot Browser rejected. They slightly adjust the calculated percentages, by up to 0.04%, in the direction of the official Humboldt County results.

For the complete (11 megabyte) csv file generated by Ballot Browser, with line by line vote data on each ballot image, click here.

**** 1A *****
1A/1AYes 009636 (+25=9661) 37.44
1A/1ANo 016099 (+39=16138) 62.56
**** 1B *****
1B/1BYes:OVERVOTED 000001 00.00
1B/1BNo:OVERVOTED 000001 00.00
1B/1BNo 015191 (+27=15218) 59.13
1B/1BYes 010502 (+35=10537) 40.87
**** 1C *****
1C/1CYes 008722 (+27=8749) 33.96
1C/1CNo 016958 (+37=16995) 66.04
1C/1CNo:OVERVOTED 000001 00.00
1C/1CYes:OVERVOTED 000001 00.00
**** 1D *****
1D/1DYes 008398 (+24=8422) 32.88
1D/1DYes:OVERVOTED 000001 00.00
1D/1Dno:OVERVOTED 000001 00.00
1D/1Dno 017144 (+39=17183) 67.12
**** 1E *****
1E/1EYes 008125 (+22=8147) 31.81
1E/1ENo 017417 (+40=17457) 68.19
**** 1F *****
1F/1FYes:OVERVOTED 000005 00.02
1F/1FNo:OVERVOTED 000005 00.02
1F/1FNo 004861 (+4=4865) 18.87
1F/1FYes 020904 (+61=20965) 81.13
**** BALLOT *****
CAST 025961 100.00
**** ballotdashcode *****
problem 000025 100.00
**** ballottemplate *****
problem 000035 100.00

These results are completely unofficial. They also exclude approximately 65 ballots (out of 26 thousand) that were rejected by Ballot Browser and will be counted manually. (The original number of rejections was 150, but I modified Ballot Browser to "try harder". Approximately half the remaining rejections are due to the intentional removal of categorizing information from certain ballots.)

The vote threshold intensity for this run of Ballot Browser was set to 226 on a scale of 0 (black) to 255 (white). Voting opportunities whose average intensity was 226 or below were recorded as votes. This added about 50 votes per race beyond the results of the default threshold setting of 216, but had negligible impact on the percentages reported.

A quick check of the variations between the two thresholds indicates that the majority of the votes that only appear at the lighter intensity are either light check marks made in the ovals or light regions appearing to have been filled in by a very light pencil. For examples, see ballots 3163, 3446, 3589, 9204.