state campaign where normally it just plays out on the airwaves. all right. thank you. let s go to josh campbell now in san francisco. how are local officials prerps to keep the votes secure as they count the ballots? yeah, despite this barrage of conspiracy theories that we ve heard, officials have been working for months to prepare for the security and the integrity of election. officials tell us for example, the by mail and in-person voting, it all has extensive tracking logs. a paper trail. so from the scanning to the tabulation to what comes after, all of that has data that surrounds it. we re told after election day, a manual count is actually done to ensure that the records posted on election day and shortly there after match what happened to the ballots. we re told, jake, what we will see here shortly, sheriff s deputies escort all the ballots from the 580 locations where the votes were cast in the city to this location. unheavy security to ensure the
kylie. there are some democrats on the ballot, as well with you tube personality kevin considered the leader of the democrats. top democrats supporting governor newsom. president biden and harris stumped with him on the closing days of the campaign warning this election has national consequences and it does. we have correspondents in newsom headquarters as we track the votes being cast today and millions of ballots already cast by mail during early voting. first, let s go to kyung lah covering governor newsom. kyung? reporter: jake, the message we re getting from team n uewso is confidence. the team is feeling confident and a top advisor is telling me quote, the blue tide keeps rising. what is he talking about? he s talking about turnout. the campaign is seeing strong turnout across this state, and
the anticipation is that they may indeed set a record when it comes to percentages. what am i talking about? in 2003, the last recall a record set at 61%, 61% turnout. now, this year, there are obviously more registered voters, so we ll have to sort the mat at th at the end of the night. when this turnout means is good news for team newsom because democrats out number republicans 2-1. the more people who vote, the better the numbers for governor n newsom and one last thing, pushing the governor over the finish line is that last-minute appearance by president biden, jake? kyung lah, let s go to stepahnie elam in orange county that could be key in this
there are 46 candidates vying to replace newsom. the top of the polls, larry elder. a conservative talk radio host, trump supporter and he is known for generating controversy. as we count down to the top. hour, let s go to our correspondents on the ground. first to los angeles, what are you hearing from the newsom camp about their ground game today? reporter: one reason newsom people are so optimistic, they finally got a date and could tell voters what they would need to do with that date. when i spoke to the head of the ground game a short while ago, she said that they ve had real conversations now with about 1.5 million voters over that tiny short period of time. is he that s very unusual in a
out and then, just by themselves, they scan it in. there is someone there to show them how to do it so they re scanning in their individual ballots themselves but as you can see here, there is a lot of activity in orange county and obviously, republicans hope this will break their way in a county that has traditionally gone for republicans but not always has the demographics changed in orange county, jake. orange county could be key to results. let s go to pamela brown tracking the ballots. pamela, what are you looking for tonight? jake, the big question in the california recall election is who is going to vote? the democrats who out number republicans 2-1 will turn out to keep governor gavin newsom in office for the remainder of his first term. keep in mind all active registered voters in california receive the ballots in the mail and all counties kept one or more early voting locations open at least since last saturday. so as of monday, more than 9.1 million californians had cast