Richmond city hall on october 12th. After the online tracking system showed their ballots were not received, many of them reached out to local election officials, trigger an investigation. We have identified about 40 people who said they dropped their ballot off that day, and we have not yet received it. We have called and emailed each one of them. Many of them most of them actually weve already reissued them a second ballot so they can have the opportunity to vote. The assistant registrar of voters says its possible there are more missing ballots. However, he says 84 other ballots dropped off at that same ballot box in richmond the same day were received. He says it does not appear the box was tampered with. Instead they suspect its a handling error. Today several concerned voters who had planned to use the Richmond City hall drop box drove their ballots to the registrar of Voters Office in martinez instead. Lets get to the campaign trail. Tonight the focus is florida. President trump
Now 5 days away from the november 3rd election and kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season. With a Record Number of people voting early this election season, there are already concerns tonight about missing ballots in the east bay, dozens of voters reported not receiving confirmation that their ballot was received by the Contra Costa County elections division. Kron fours justine waltman here now with details and whether or not foul play is believed to be involved justine. Well Contra Costa County has 37 drop off ballot boxes. But theres one question tonight, and thats the box thats right outside of Richmond City hall, dozens of voters say they dropped off their ballots there on october 12 and the county has not been able to confirm receipt of those ballots so theyre lost and the county doesnt know where they are tonight. The county is telling us this according to the Contra Costa County Elections Office the ballot box and Richmond City all has been inspected by
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Covid vaccine continues but Health Experts say do not expect to receive a shot anytime soon thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 6 everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis after earlier suggesting that a covid19 vaccine could be ready by election day the president is now telling followers. At his rallies is just around the corner now some doctors and scientists are weighing in our dan kerman is live at Ucsf Medical Center with a vaccine reality check dan, getting back to normal is. So dependent on this vaccine. Absolutely and it looks like that back to normal is going to be sometime late next year doctor fauci saying today the earliest iris populations might get a vaccine could be december or january specialists here ucsf say that High Risk Group probably not mass distribution until spring. Many of our greatest companies and labs that coming out very quickly with the vaccines are doing great very shortly the president s initial suggestion that a covid19 vaccine could be re
Mrs. Trump warmed up the large crowd for President Donald Trump outside Raymond James stadium she used her time in the spotlight to echo her husbands push to downplay the coronavirus pandemic which has killed 228,000 americans. Everybody seemed day. To move this country forward. President trump took the stage celebrating a new federal estimate that the economy grew at a stunning 33. 1 to an annual rate in the July September quarter. We are doing great to see the number today, 33. 1 g d p. Now to Broward County which includes Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale rather where president ial candidate, joe biden appeared for a drive in raleigh. Broward is the blue is county in florida and home to a sizable population of black voters biden used his moment on stage today to slam the president on racial issues. You have to vote got the ball because while donald trump fails to contend white supremacy. We could deliver on racial justice. Donald trump. Players access and systemic racism as a problem