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Registrar reports turnout, audits and a small satellite office pilot that served 44 voters
Summary
Registrar Christopher Camini told the commission that the county’s audits matched results, turnout was about 40% with 92,224 votes cast, and a Fowler Center satellite 'on-demand' site served 44 registered voters over 11 days as a proof of concept.
Registrar Christopher Camini opened his report by thanking staff and partner county offices for assisting with the election and summarized operational results. He said the county’s post-election processes included a mandatory 2% statistical audit that matched reported results and a risk-limiting audit selection that also matched when hand counts were completed.
Camini reported 92,224 votes were cast in the election, which he described as a roughly 40% turnout. Of those, he said 61,339 voted in person (about 60% of votes cast) and 30,542 were mail-in ballots (about 33%), with a reported 92% return rate on mail-in ballots sent. Camini also said the county counted roughly 343 provisional ballots that were officially counted and that write-ins initially numbered more than 9,500 but were adjudicated down to 593 legitimate write-ins.
On election-day operations, Camini said a small number of machines experienced technical problems at a few precincts; county crews and spare machines were deployed and there was no loss of votes. A power outage at a site in Pennsville was managed with battery backup and a generator arrived within about 45 minutes; the outage did not cause lost votes.
Camini described a Fowler Center on-demand satellite office pilot: the site ran for 11 days, used secure laptops and one on-demand ballot printer provided through a Department of State arrangement, relied on an on-site drop box for ballot security, and served 44 registered voters. He said the space was provided under an MOU with Northampton County and did not carry a lease cost; county staff transported supplies to and from the site each day for security.
Commissioners asked about staffing and costs should the satellite site be continued; Camini said the pilot used one permanent staff member and one temporary election-hire per day and that additional staffing would be required if usage increased. The commission agreed that future scheduling and the frequency of meetings would be set by the next commission and noted the requirement that certain ballot measures be approved 13 Tuesdays before an election.
The registrar said the office will publish the dates for the 2026 commission calendar after the Department of State releases its schedule; the first meeting was set for Feb. 17, 2026, to meet the 13-Tuesday requirement.
