Courtesy https://www.fillmoreca.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=95
(Ventura) – Ventura County Clerk-Recorder & Registrar of Voters Michelle Ascencion announced today the official election results certification for the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election. A total of 196,415 ballots were cast in this Statewide Direct Primary election: 89.84% of voters cast vote-by-mail ballots and 10.16% voted in person, resulting in a 38.51% voter turnout in Ventura County.

According to Elections Code 8140, County nonpartisan contests are decided in the primary and will not appear on the general election ballot if a candidate garners more than 50% of the vote. The offices elected in the March 5, 2024 Primary Election are:
• Ventura County Board of Supervisors, 1st District: Matt LaVere
• Ventura County Board of Supervisors, 3rd District: Kelly Long
• Ventura County Board of Supervisors, 5th District: Vianey Lopez
• Judge of the Superior Court, Office No. Four: Julia Snyder

The Presidential Primary races were party-specific with separate elections held for the six official political parties in California: American Independent, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, and Republican parties. Other federal and state races are scheduled for a run-off of the top-two finishers in the November 5, 2024 General Election. Full election results from Ventura County are now available on the VenturaVote.org website. Statewide contest results are on the Secretary of State website: https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/

Today’s certification completes the Official Canvass period that included: tabulation of early voting ballots, Election Day ballots, and Vote-By-Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received by the 7-day deadline; investigations of conditional registration and provisional ballots; the One-Percent Manual Tally audit; and the curing of mail ballot signatures. All processes necessary to complete the Official Canvass were completed well within the 30-day deadline required by the California Elections Code.

“I’m very proud of the work our team has done in this first major election of my term,” said Registrar Michelle Ascencion. “The Presidential Primary can be confusing: people may have been looking for a candidate that didn’t appear on their ballot because of the party-specific slate, and No Party Preference voters didn’t have a presidential contest on their ballot at all! We worked hard to communicate with voters – via media releases, online postings, direct mailings, various outreach events, and the Election Education Series – to give them a head’s up on what was different. Thankfully, the General Election in November is more straightforward.”

Registrar Ascencion and the Elections staff extend their appreciation to the Ventura County community for its support in bringing the election to fruition.

“We are enormously grateful to the other County departments and their employees for assisting us in this election, and there are also many other people to thank,” Ascencion said. “The hundreds of temporary Election Workers from throughout our community, the locations that hosted our Vote Centers, our local media who helped spread the word, our US Postal Service partners who handled hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail for us… we couldn’t do it without you all, thank you!”

Additional information can be found on the Elections Division website at VenturaVote.org