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Alameda County registrar defends post‑Election Day processes as residents press for audit
Summary
Registrar Tim Dupuy told supervisors the office is following California law on accepting some ballots without legible postmarks and plans to certify the Oakland special election on May 2, while multiple public speakers urged an audit and raised concerns about chain of custody and observer access.
Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuy said the county followed state election law in handling ballots received after Election Day, while public speakers pressed the Board of Supervisors to order an audit of vote-by-mail processing and observation procedures.
Dupuy gave a broad overview of the office’s work in November — from a 71.1% turnout among 960,000 registered voters to the predominance of vote-by-mail returns and extensive drop‑box and vote‑center use — and described the office’s testing, staffing and observation practices. He said Alameda is a Voter’s Choice Act county that ran 100 vote centers and trained roughly 700 election workers for the major election.
When asked about ballots that arrived without legible postmarks, Dupuy said his office consulted county counsel…
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