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# Mail-In Ballots/Returns Reaching Record For County Of San Diego
- URL: https://ivn.us/mail-ballotsreturns-reaching-record-county-san-diego/
- Published: 2016-11-07T21:40:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:55:36.000Z
- Author: Kristen Henderson
- Tags: News

San Diego, CALIF. - More than one million mail-in ballots have been sent to voters of San Diego County. If confirmed by Registrar Michael Vu, that would represent a new record.

[Inewsource has reported](http://data.inewsource.org/elections/san-diego-2016-general-early-voting?ref=ivn.us) that 1.11 million early ballots were issued. This means, of the [1.5 million San Diegans registered to vote](http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/info/bythenumbers/rov.html?ref=ivn.us), 65% intend to vote by mail. So far, the Registrar has received 501,687 completed ballots.

A plethora of mail-in ballots can be expected to roll in today.

Elections analyst Vince Vasquez told[ *inewsource*](http://inewsource.org/2016/11/01/early-voting-san-diego-2016-general-election-ab/?utm%5Fexpid=78280858-9.nvNcP%5FbhQhqmdXwBWxPOLg.1&utm%5Freferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&ref=ivn.us) that, given the sheer length of the ballot this year, absentee voters likely spent a substantial amount of time studying the ballots before mailing them in. Additionally, Vasquez indicated that a number of absentee voters complete their ballots at home with the intention of dropping them off at polling booths on Election Day.

The number of mail-ballot voters was higher than that of precinct voters in 2012, and this year, even more San Diegans opted to vote by mail. [850,000 early ballots](http://www.countynewscenter.com/election-results-when-theyre-counted/?ref=ivn.us) were issued in 2012,[ 675,007 of them](http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2012-general/03-voter-participation-stats-by-county.pdf?ref=ivn.us) were cast.

As for the 2016 General Election, of the 501,687 ballots received so far, 40% came from Democrats, 37% from Republicans, and 22% of the ballots from NPP.

See the voter breakdown below:

DEM 200,685

REP 184,408

NPP 108,433

AI 14,966

LIB 3,433

GRN 1,512

Expect election results posted shortly after 8 o’clock by the Registrar Tuesday night.