Nevada City, Grass Valley and Truckee council races too close to call – too few votes counted

November 4, 2020 – Nevada County Elections Office’s last update for election night reports 30,488 ballots counted out of 74,467 registered voters. Less than 50% of possible votes have been counted in Grass Valley and just over 40% in both Nevada City and Truckee.

On Monday evening, the Elections Office announced 51,994 vote-by-mail ballots had been received, representing 73% of total ballots issued. Only 25,051 of those appear to have been tallied so far, together with 2,884 early votes and 2,553 election day votes.

With over 25,000 ballots remaining to be counted, candidates and their supporters need patience and trust in the process.

The Elections Office will provide updates throughout the 30-day canvass period.

Nevada City, City Council – vote for 1
999 out of 2,467 registered voters counted (40.49%)

	Absentee voting	Early voting	Election Day voting	Provisional	Total	Total %
Catalina Llanos	118	9	9		130	15.03%
Gary Petersen	407	32	14		453	50.06%
Amy Cobden	273	22	21		316	34.92%
Cast votes:	798	63	44		905
Overvote	4				4
Undervote	61	13	16		90

Grass Valley, City Council – vote for 3
3,922 ballots out of 8,316 registered voters counted (47.16%)

	Absentee voting	Early voting	Election Day voting	Provisional	Total	Total %
Bob Branstrom	1,577	99	68		1,744	24.91%
Janet Arbuckle	1,765	153	124		2,042	29.17%
Edward W. Peevey	773	88	78		939	13.41%
Thomas Ivy	1,519	115	105		1,739	24.84%
Steven Conrad	443	51	43		537	7.67%
Overvote	2				2
Undervote	3,772	493	494		4,759

Town of Truckee, Town Council
4,717 out of 11,479 registered voters counted (41.54%)

	Absentee voting	Early voting	Election Day voting	Provisional	Total	Total %
Four year term – vote for 2
Frank J. Bernhard	440	94	48		582	7.68%
Courtney Henderson	2,069	214	161		2,444	33.23%
Nicholas J. Sielchan	131	20	29		180	2.37%
Marcy Dolan	665	87	87		839	11.06%
Jack Forbes	256	44	46		346	4.56%
Dow Costa	893	175	141		1,209	15.94%
Lindsay Romack	1,674	191	118		1,983	26.15%
Overvote	20	1	3		24
Undervote	1,318	237	248		1,803
Two year term – vote for 1
Carla Embertson	1,120	241	217		1,578	41.32%
Jan Zabriskie	1,942	188	111		2,241	58.68%
Overvote	4	2	1		7
Undervote	67	101	113		891

The counting will continue during the official canvass period. County elections officials must report their final results to the Secretary of State for the Presidential contest by December 1 and all other state and federal contests by December 4. The Secretary of State will certify the results on December 11, 2020. The Electoral College will convene on December 14, 2020.