Humboldt County Has Processed 19,370 Ballots, More Than 21,000 Remain
Press release from the Humboldt County Office of Elections:
Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Juan Pablo Cervantes and the Humboldt County Office of Elections is committed to keeping voters informed about ballot processing and election results reporting for the June 2, 2026 Statewide Direct Primary Election and is providing the following update:
There are 84,944 registered voters in Humboldt County who were mailed ballots for the election on June 2. Out of these ballots, as of midday on Thursday, June 4, the Elections Office has received and processed 19,370 ballots and has approximately 21,151 ballots left to process.
Ballot Type Number of Unprocessed Ballots Provisional 286 Vote-By-Mail 20,823 Ballots from Voting Locations 42 Election Results Reporting
Election results updates will be released twice a week, beginning Friday, June 5 at 5 p.m. Additional updates are anticipated to be released around 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday each week until the election is certified.
The election’s canvass period began Thursday, June 4, and provides a 30-day window after Election Day to ensure all legal votes are counted accurately. During this time, the Elections Office verifies voter eligibility, confirms mail-in ballot signatures, processes provisional and conditional ballots and conducts the manual tally of one percent of all precincts.
All valid vote-by-mail ballots will be counted regardless of the outcome or closeness of any race if they are postmarked by Tuesday, June 2 and arrive by Tuesday, June 9.
For more information on ballot processing or election results reporting, please contact the Humboldt County Office of Elections at 707-445-7481 or email humboldt_elections@co.
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Donald has a few things to say about this.
@realDonaldTrump
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Watch California, everybody! Our Election process is as bad, or worse, than any Third World Country. The biggest difference is, they count their Votes much faster — They don’t wait seven days to tell you who won, rigging the Election during each and every one of them. Americans are ashamed of what is happening! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The only thing I am ashamed of is you DONALD J. TRUMP.
This is what our failed educational system has done. We can’t even count votes as fast as a Third World Country! I heard they were confusing multiplication with addition this year- somebody rotated the symbol a little bit and they had to start all over again…
Hopefully you’re just being sarcastic.
If not, you should volunteer as an election worker so you can see what is involved.
“Walk a mile in their shoes”
OH for fucks sake. There is NO excuse for taking more the 24 hours to count the votes. Unless you need to process some paper in the back room. And the volunteers of the opposing party are left out front to great the voters and sweep up.
Are you saying this based upon your experience as an election worker,
or based on your over-active imagination?
How do you explain all the ballot excess and voter registration issues in this state? Are you OK with it? The left must win and any cost?
I dropped mine in the mail on Tuesday because I had a long work day. Mines probably on the pile of uncounted. It’s just a bonus that it makes Donald crazy.
Mailed mine on Monday.
Got an email Wednesday that it was received but not yet counted.
I mailed mine. It will completely nullify yours. Every election I choose somebody who annoys me the most and then I vote exactly in opposition to their vote. Voting seems pretty useless but when I can personalize it to know that I am destroying some obnoxious person’s dearly held votes it makes it more meaningful- and fun!
And yeah- I didn’t even want to vote for some of those people…But …You Made Me Do It!!!
Unfortunately, the current administration had USPS make changes to the rules, and your ballot may not have been postmarked on that day. Your best bet is to vote as early as you can.
If you have something that says this is true please give a link. This allegation seems to be just a knee jerk TDS assumption from Progressives who see Trump behind every tree.
Everything I could find says the PO has not changed the way they postmark but that previous reorganization to change that mail all goes to regional centers end up meaning that postmarking is done there. And that had nothing to do with any Administration.
The PO has done that ever since regional centers were established (I think in 2022 for Eureka? Or at least that is when I remember complaining about the local PO not keeping it local.) but it was not specified in the Code. All that happened recently is that the phrase was added to the code to clarify that. “Its primary purpose is to improve public understanding that while a postmark confirms the USPS possessed a mailpiece on the date inscribed, that date does not necessarily align with the date the USPS first accepted possession of the item.
The rule clarifies that the USPS does not postmark all mail in the ordinary course of operations and that the absence of a postmark does not imply the USPS did not accept custody.”
https://www.currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com/blog/2025/12/8/usps-changes-to-postmark-date-system-taking-effect-december-24-2025
https://www.historytools.org/consumer/usps-regional-facility
That’s not an answer to the question posed by D’Tucker Jebs.
Of course I’m being sarcastic. But I’m also funny- very very funny!
What I am ashamed of is the Democrat invented election interference that is called “automatic voter registration” that happens in every state in America that’s been creating registered voters who may not have ever even registered to vote by their own volition, that’s been perpetrated since before the 2020 elections…!!!
Oh wait…!!!
It doesn’t happen in every State in America, and that’s another reason to consider it fraudulent imbalanced state specific election interference…
It only happens in SOME States, but not in plenty others…
And guess which kind of States these immaculately concepted voters are mostly created in…???
That’s right…
Blue States…
Trump is right…
The Democrat designed political party election shenanigans are happening before the elections even begin…
Democrats are influentually packing the voter registrations, interfering with the long standing long established voter registration methods, (and therefore the entire election process), because they know the automatic voter registration scam/scheme is “primarily” to their particular political party’s benefit…
Or they would never have suggested, proposed, passed, and/or, implemented it…
If it’s not a national election standard being upheld in every state equally, then it is fucking being fraudulently and unequally implemented and it’s piecemeal election interference…
If a recalcitrant voter is automatically registered, and falls in the woods, does it make a vote?
Only if needed.
If they’re automatically registering everyone, wouldn’t that include people who choose Republican?
Also, you can register a voter but you can’t make him vote.
Well it does imply those who can’t be bothered to register for themselves are most likely to have Democrats help them do it. And Democrats have repeatedly pointed out their goal is to defeat Republicans. So obviously Democrats are pretty sure this procedure benefits themselves.
Likely if it turned out not to be true, they will simply change the law like they did with Prop 50. It’s not like anyone is accusing them of this sort of thing out of the blue. The Democrats are loud about that being their goal.
“If they’re automatically registering everyone, wouldn’t that include people who choose Republican?”
-Korina42-
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If the Liberals are predominately doing it in predominantly Liberal states, which they certainly are, then ask yourself…
“Wouldn’t that include people who choose Republican?”
…and the answer is…
…”Not so much”…
It ain’t rocket science…
The benefits would clearly lean Liberal…
The Liberals definitely didn’t introduce the Automatic Voter Registration legislation in order to benefit Conservatives…
So, let’s not keep kidding ourselves…
Where do you think all of Bidens unprecedented millions of extra votes came from in 2020…???
“Automatic Voter Registration”
Sound it out…
It’s self serving Liberal election interference, plain and simple….
But if they’re automatically registering everyone, how do they exclude potential conservative voters?
Liberals are doing automatic voter registration in liberal states because that’s where they have the power to do it.
The question is, why aren’t conservatives introducing automatic registration in conservative states, where the benefits would lean conservative?
“…why aren’t conservatives introducing automatic registration in conservative states, where the benefits would lean conservative?”
-Korina42-
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Because Automatic Voter Registration is election interference, and because election interference is unethical…
Any more questions…???
Who says automatic voter registration is election interference? How is being registered to vote election interference?? They’re not even telling people to vote, they’re telling them they can.
It takes time to get the ballot count right. Yeah… right.
In person, with voter ID voting, would solve a lot of credibility problems.
I you don’t want to take the time to identify yourself as an American citizen and part of the American society, please don’t take the time to vote.
And yet the down voter -2, likes the cheat method because she get the results she thinks are fair and must come at any cost, to morality.
Funny how honest election protcol has been abandoned. Twenty years ago you went in, proved who you were, and voted, and the next day most of the count was done. Back when they did not cheat.
Absentee voting has been around for over 200 years.
Absentee voting is for the absent or invalid. ONLY. Now ballots are scatter all over the state, opening the door for fraud. But if you have to cheat this is what you need. Unaccountable documents. But you are ok with this.
Yet you still offer no proof of widespread fraud,
No one has, ever, because it isn’t there. Hell, half the population can’t even be bothered to vote, much less cheat.
No one should have to prove that a stupid idea will lead to abuse. If the bad intentioned are smarter than the law, they will find a way because they know that people who are so uninterested in voting as to need ballots mailed to them are not likely going to make much stink about the lost ones. Therefore it would be wise not to make stupid laws that are easily abused. So far, the integrity of voting has avoided scandal because earlier generations worked to stop it.
“In the 2025 Wisconsin elections for a seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Elon Musk was accused of attempting to influence votes for Wisconsin Republican candidate Brad Schimel through vote buying. Musk’s America PAC established an online petition to oppose “activist judges,” promising $100 to Wisconsin residents who signed. He also handed out a $1 million USD check to a voter. In the U.S., low-cost vote-buying appears not to be a thing of the past. A 2021 study, using a nationally representative survey, by Jordan Gans-Morse and Simeon Nichter, found that a substantial share of Americans were willing to sell their votes for cash, for as little as US$25.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_buying
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-17/dozens-of-stolen-prop-50-ballots-found-in-a-homeless-encampment-in-sacramento
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_buying
Still no evidence of election fraud presented.
Have been waiting…
Crickets
Bipartisan voting studies have found no substantial voting fraud occurs in 50 states.
Is just a bunch of trumped up bullshit to scare people into believing voter fraud exists so widely that the scared people will allow the fraudsters to modify our voting systems.
Vote tallying has almost always taken more than 24hrs.
30days to certify an election is standard across the country.
The only credibility problems are those that were invented.
In reality, voting by mail is safe, effective, and efficient.
safe: you wont get covid going to the drop box
effective: way to have ballots added to the count
efficient: count at leaser, for weeks at a time, make the count work out
Prove it. Better yet, participate; extra help election worker is a paid job working with dedicated people. Or are you that mean little boy who likes to burn anthills with a magnifying glass?
It’s not about credibility, it’s about processing tens of thousands of ballots, by hand, by about 50 people. If you want it to go faster, help; it does pay.
If you didn’t vote for Steve Hilton that’s antisemitism…!!!
Hmmm. I wonder why Weber wont fix this? It makes it easy to cheat when you have hundreds of thousands of ballots floating around. But this image of cheating is quickly downplayed by the progs.
Meanwhile, Secretary Weber’s office has remained largely silent on the specific out-of-state mailing complaints, even as the DOJ pushes for transparency. This comes despite repeated warnings from election integrity groups and past Globe investigations showing ballots mailed to vacant lots, commercial addresses, and out-of-state residences.
California Democrats refuse to implement basic safeguards like proof-of-citizenship requirements or Voter ID, measures a majority of Californians now support according to recent polling. A Voter ID, citizenship verification, and voter list administration initiative has qualified for the November 2026 ballot.
https://california globe.com/fl/california-ballots-mailed-to-ex-residents-nationwide-as-doj-demands-full-audit/
The head of elections needs to spend less time partying with the mayor and her girlfriends and get the job done.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Juan, and everyone, works their asses off during elections. Tuesday, my husband and I were working at the Arcata Community Center from about 5:40 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Juan stopped in at 7? 8? p.m. but left because everything was running so smoothly, thanks largely to John, the manager, who got there before us and left after us.
If you’re going to make baseless accusations about people you don’t know, please label them as such.
I am not feeling good about you working there. You are one of the most polarized commenters on here! And no- I don’t want Mr. Clark working the vote count either. I’d like very honest fairly non-partisan people counting the votes…
And you’re an impartial arbiter?
Wow…SHFH
Actually yeah way more. I’m more concerned that my fellow citizens’ votes get counted properly. I think the voting process is more important than whoever wins the vote. I don’t rail against one side more than the other and I don’t blame people for not voting the way I think they should…
You can easily observe the ballot processing — er, process. We’ll be doing the second count tomorrow, Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. until we’re done, probably mid-afternoon. The address is 2426 6th St, Eureka.
Do you think a vote counter will toss a ballot form opposition?
I sure would hope not!! And I didn’t mean to imply that! I’m just uncomfortable if somebody who is dead-set on one side or the other is counting votes. I think people with strong opinions of who should win the election might find themselves in dilemma between vote integrity and an honest count against their team. Maybe pair up opposing people?
We’re not counting votes, we’re processing ballots; take them out of the envelope, flatten the folds as much as we can, count the envelopes (signature side down to preserve the voters’ anonymity), usually in a bundle of 50, count the ballot sheets, note the counts on a card and initial it, take the separated bundles to the regular elections office folks, get another bundle. Today was the first count. Tomorrow each ballot bundle will be counted again by a different worker. It’s tedious and meticulous work, but necessary work.
The ballots are put into a scanner by someone else, probably during the week.
Just FYI, most of the extra help workers are seniors, as we have the time and need the money. I have no idea about the political leanings of the people around me; we’re too busy and who cares? And you’re talking maybe 50 people in a tight space; there’s no real opportunity for shenanigans if anyone were so inclined.
I hope that helps. Be well.
Korina42, Jebs,
and other mail-in ballot zealots… It is not HOW the ballots are counted, it’s where the ballots come from, and how they get there. Somewhat like a clue…
Otherwise thank you for your service, But I would much rather see you count ballots from verifiable American citizens.
Oops, Ernie.
You seem to have forgotten to provide a link to any evidence that noncitizen votes are counted.
The mere fact that you and others don’t want to give it a try might be some indication.
Also, the fat lady hasn’t sung yet. Unless the folks trying to rig the vote aren’t very careful they might get caught this election. There is a different set of eyes watching.
Ever since Trump started whining about stolen elections there has been untold investigations and court cases, yet no widespread fraud has been found.
I am reminded about the old saying about insanity.
DOJ sends prosecutor to observe LA ballot counting amid Trump’s baseless ‘cheating’ claims
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/05/politics/justice-department-prosecutor-la-ballot-counting-trump
We got em’ this time just you wait.
Yeah, like Trump is the first to challenge an election. And the thing is he is most likely RIGHT about it.
It’s certainly reasonable to watch elections closely.
That said, allegations that elections are being “rigged” require evidence. In 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr stated it found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election. Barr was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by a Republican-controlled Senate, so he was not a political opponent of Trump when he reached that conclusion. So the same side as that time is watching the election then as they are now.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which was created during the Trump administration, likewise stated there was no evidence that voting systems deleted, lost, or changed votes and called the election “the most secure in American history.”
Skepticism is healthy. So is following the evidence wherever it leads. If anyone uncovers actual election fraud, it should be investigated and prosecuted. But claims of widespread vote-rigging need to be supported by verifiable facts, not just suspicions.
“vote-rigging need to be supported by verifiable facts, not just suspicions.”
Agreed, But facts will never be found without suspicion.
I am distressed by our government’s almost total disregard for the people’s needs. They can’t even pass a budget. They can’t even agree on a time of day. (daylight savings time)
Again, your statements, still after >5yrs, offer no attributable, verifiable, nor corroborated evidence of any substance to show any significant fraud in our voting systems, in the state or without.
Non-citizens are barred from voting, period.
Here’s an analysis of the Heritage Foundations own data on 25+yrs of voting fraud across the US.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/
Read it, comprehend it.
Beating a long dead horse based on unfounded suspicions is illogical and a little nutty.
It undermines the credibility of the accuser.
General concern over election fairness & security is, however, reasonable.
This is why we election observers and loads of anti-fraud rules & verifications.
The real election fraud is happening through most State Legislatures and is considered legal by the SCOTUS.
Citizens United & Gerrymandering by almost all states are fierce, fundamental problems.
Gerrymandering predates Jim Crow.
Dark money in elections has drastically increased & should be banned.
End Corporate Personhood.
Move to Amend the Constitution to eliminate a. corporate subversion of local & state control and b. corporate dark money in elections.
No taxation without representation.
“That said, allegations that elections are being “rigged” require evidence.”
-Kym Kemp-
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Erik V. Kirk , (whose election prophesies and predictions appear to actually be beginning to materialize, so far to his astuteness’ credit), has pretty clearly indicated the legally questionable political strategy, (IMO),that numerous Democrats have been instructed to obey, and in response, were conspiratorially all “laying in wait”, until certain indicators eventually dictated how they were all to vote, before they all voted en masse, in the most influential way possible, in order to most significantly affect the outcome of the California gubernatorial election…
To be perfectly clear,
In no way am intentionally or unintentionally trying to imply that Mr. Kirk has done anything whatsoever wrong…
On the contrary, I only believe that Mr. Kirk has merely indicated an extraordinarily keen awareness of it, and that’s all I’m trying to convey…
That’s not simply a political party encouraging each members of your political party to vote for the candidate of their own choice…
That’s DIRECTLY “RIGGING” WHEN THEY VOTE, HOW THEY VOTE, AND WHO THEY VOTE FOR, AND HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH EACH VOTERS’ CHOICE…
ITS A LIBERAL ELECTION SCHEME, THEREFORE, ITS A LIBERAL ELECTION SCAM…!!!
BRING BACK ONE DAY ONLY ELECTION VOTING, AND THIS KIND OF LIBERAL ELECTION RIGGING BULLSHIT MEDDLING GOES RIGHT AWAY…!!!
Let me see if I understand; the Democratic party is telling its members who to vote for, but the Republican party isn’t doing the exact same thing, with an extra nudge from the president?
See, this is why I’m not a member of any party; y’all’s crazy.
See my reply to Farce, above. No one’s counting the ballots, a scanner is. We’re just taking them out of the envelopes and unfolding them.