{"id":10094,"date":"2026-05-28T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:02:21","slug":"life-of-a-ballot-how-orange-countys-votes-are-counted-verified-and-stored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=10094","title":{"rendered":"Life of a ballot: How Orange County\u2019s votes are counted, verified and stored"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve slid your ballot through the small slit of a large, bright yellow box.<\/p>\n

Or maybe you popped it in your mailbox, raising the red flag for the postman to collect. Or perhaps you\u2019ve walked into a vote center, stood at a walled-off desk and painstakingly colored in bubbles on a ballot.<\/p>

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But what happens next?<\/p>\n

It may seem like magic, but really it\u2019s a host of Orange County election workers \u2014 about 2,000 people were hired for the June primary election in Orange County, Registrar of Voters Bob Page said \u2014 who painstakingly remove ballots from envelopes, ensure bubbles are filled in correctly so the votes are properly counted, help residents obtain a replacement ballot or cast a provisional one, make sure someone does not vote twice and much, much more.<\/p>\n