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• ELECTION NIGHT FINAL: Despite a (Probably) Large Number of Votes Left to Count, Mary Burke and Audrey Hanks are Certain Shoo-Ins
• ELECTIONS OFFICE UPDATE: There Are Still More Than 21,000 Ballots Left to be Processed; Updates to be Issued Twice Weekly

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The Humboldt County Office of Elections just published an update on how the tabulation of the June 2 election is going, and the answer seems to be: Pretty good!

The vast bulk of the county’s uncounted ballots have been counted, and as of right now there are only some 1,439 votes left to be processed. More than 39,000 votes have been tabulated.

What do the new results show? That Fifth District Supervisor Candidate Mary Burke and Assessor candidate Audrey Hanks have opened up even wider leads against their competitors. 

Burke now holds 77.09% of votes counted — up from about 73.5% on election night — and Hanks has an even 79.00%, a little bit up from the 77.0% she held a week ago.

In the governor’s race, Tom Steyer continues to hold the plurality of the Humboldt vote — 31.91% — in his doomed campaign.

The two local ballot measures up for vote in this go-around — a Shelter Cove parcel tax and Trinidad school bonds — are both passing easily, with 75.21% and 66.25% of the vote, respectively. The Shelter Cove taxes need a two-thirds vote to pass, and the Trinidad school bonds need 55%. 

Full results here. Another update is scheduled for Friday, but with so few votes left to count don’t expect much to move.