There are still 88,700 unprocessed ballots that were cast in San Joaquin County during Tuesday’s primary election.

The ballot barcode snafu is requiring ballots to be double checked by hand before they can be counted.

The unprocessed ballots include vote-by-mail ballots; provisional ballots; conditional voter registration provisional ballots; and unprocessed ballots that are damaged, need to be remade, or require further review.  Additional ballots may be received before the June 14 vote-by-mail postmark deadline.

There were 22,081 ballots tabulated as of 5 p.m. Thursday.

County elections officials indicated result totals will vary each week depending on scanning activities and ballots that need to be duplicated due to the ballot barcode printing issue.

Future ballot postings will occur every Tuesday by approximately 9 p.m. until all votes are tabulated before the statutory deadline of July 7, 2022.

A county release indicated the registrar of voters’ office “is working to ensure that every vote is properly counted. They are focusing their efforts on completing this election carefully and accurately using the time dictated by law to tabulate the votes by July 7, 2022.”

With approximately 20 percent of the expected ballots counted – the registrar’s office expects about 100,000 of the 385,040 registered voters to return their ballots – current San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar was trailing her former prosecutor by more than 1,500 votes. Less than 200 votes currently separate the top four vote getters in the race for San Joaquin County Supervisorial District 4 – Steve Colangelo currently leads that race – while Troy Brown leads the race for County Superintendent of Schools by nearly 5,000 votes over Brian Biedermann.

In the race for the 9th Congressional District – which shed much of its Bay Area borders during redistricting and is now heavily centered in San Joaquin County – currently 10th District Congressman Josh Harder, who moved to Tracy to run for what was Jerry McNerney’s seat upon his retirement, is beating San Joaquin County Supervisor Tom Patti by more than 1,700 votes. Patti has a lead of more than 2,000 votes over the next challenger meaning that he will likely advance to a runoff with Harder in November for the seat.