County of Kern

The Secretary of State’s Ballot Trax program only provides notifications regarding mail ballots. If you surrendered your mail ballot and voted in person at the polls, your ballot was counted on Tuesday night. There is no Ballot Trax notification.

Mail ballots that were dropped off at a poll site were delivered to the election office. However, the Ballot Trax program is only updated when we begin processing the ballot. Because of the heavy volume of mail ballots, this may take a few days. Once the signature is checked and the ballot is accepted, Ballot Trax provides the notification that it has been accepted and will be counted. There are no further notifications after that, since the counting process is automatic once the signature is accepted.