The process a ballot goes through in Butte County

Mail-in ballots are already pouring into election offices around the state, including Butte County.

Action News Now gives you an inside look at how the clerk-recorder's office processes the ballots that come in for Election Day.

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Mail in ballots are already pouring into election offices around the state... including here in butte county.

Action news now reporter jafet seratto is live in paradise..

Jafet... how is the clerk recorder's office faring?

Julia... the vote by mail process operates the same as a conveyor belt.

I went to the butte county clerk recorders office to see what happens after you drop off your ballot at dropboxes like these.

Whether you send your ballot through the mail or a dropbox.

It all eventually lands here at the clerk recorder's office.

(nats: tab being pulled off) once they get the ballot - volunteers pull each tab off these envelopes.

(nats; tabs being pulled off) then they sort them... (nats: envelopes being sorted) putting 200 envelopes at a time inside this machine called the "agellis".

(nats) "the agellis then takes a picture of the back of each envelope and we compare the signatures."

(nats: scan barcode) two volunteers double check the signatures.

"if the signature looks like somebody else signed it or they forgot to sign it at all.

Then a letter will be produced by tonight and go out to the mail.

That asks them did you vote your ballot?

And we need a signature" if everything is above board & "then they are stored in the ballot room until we bring them out."

And into this room to be counted& starting next week.

(standup:) "grubbs tell me if anybody is curious about the vote by mail processing they can call the clerk recorders office to schedule a tour.

Here you can look through the windows and see the process yourself."

(nats) "i want to assure everybody the post office in butte county is working with us very well.

They should not be afraid of putting it in the mail."

(nats) in oroville jafet serrato action news now coverage you can count on if you've changed your address grubbs says you need to update it with her office.

Live in paradise jafet seratto action news now coverage you can count on.

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