Douglas County election officials certify results; see final vote totals

Voters at Kanwaka Township Hall, Douglas County Precinct No. 56, fill the hall shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Douglas County election officials on Thursday certified the vote totals from last week’s General Election, and although the totals changed slightly, the changes did not impact the outcome of any races.

Vote totals for individual candidates changed slightly as election officials processed about 2,000 provisional ballots, which are ballots that were set aside on Election Day because there was some question to their validity.

Election officials gathered Thursday morning for the process called a canvass, where they review each provisional ballot and determine whether it should be counted. The board of canvassers counted 1,295 of the 2,006 provisional ballots. Of the approximately 700 ballots that were not counted, the most common reason was because the voter was registered in a county other than Douglas County.

Thirty-three votes were not counted because the voter could not produce an identification card. Another 12 voters could not produce an ID card on Election Day, but later brought in an ID card to election officials. Those ballots were counted.

Here’s a look at the official Douglas County vote totals for several major races:

• President: Clinton 61.13 percent, or 31,195 votes; Trump 28.78 percent, or 14,688 votes; Johnson 4.76 percent, or 2,429 votes; Stein 3.05 percent, or 1,555 votes; write-ins, 1,164 votes.

• U.S. Senate: Wiesner 60.37 percent, or 30,436 votes; Moran 34.84 percent, or 17,563 votes; Garrard 4.62 percent, or 2,330 votes.

• 2nd District U.S. House of Representatives: Potter, 52.07 percent, or 26,214 votes; Jenkins 36.67 percent, or 18,463 votes; Bales 11.14 percent, or 5,610 votes.

• County Commission 2nd District: Thellman 63.79 percent, or 10,175 votes; Brinson Jr. 35.85 percent, or 5,718 votes.

• County Commission 3rd District: Derusseau 51.31 percent, or 9,413 votes; Chahine 48.37 percent, or 8,874 votes.