{"id":336696,"date":"2026-05-28T23:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:51:41","slug":"kern-county-elections-office-reports-57000-ballots-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336696\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Elections Office reports 57,000 ballots returned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Elections Office has received more than 57,000 returned ballots ahead of Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The office mailed out just over 460,000 ballots to voters.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who has not yet returned their ballot, the elections office recommends dropping it off at any official drop box, at a poll site on Election Day, or returning it by mail.<\/p>\n<p>A list of poll sites and drop boxes is available at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/kernvote.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kernvote.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Elections Office has received more than 57,000 returned ballots ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7166,139024,4674,93634,162],"class_list":["post-336696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-ballots","tag-drop-boxes","tag-election-day","tag-kern-county-elections","tag-kern-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}