Thirty-five percent of Orange County voters participated in the June primary election, according to the state Registrar of Voters, who certified Orange County’s election results June 25.
Of those who voted, 88.6 percent did so by mail while 11.4 percent cast a ballot in person at one of the county’s 181 voting centers.
This election received 636,497 ballots—0.2 percent higher than the 2018 primary election’s 635,224 and 87 percent higher than the 340,187 in 2014.
The county certified the results June 25—ahead of the July 7 deadline—after completing two audits.
An official vote-by-mail ballot packet in Irvine, Calif., on May 16, 2022. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
The first audit compares hand-counted results to the results of the county’s voting system, while the second audit, which utilized state-approved auditing software, achieved a 95 percent confidence rate in the elections’ outcome, according to the registrar….