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The Final Push Is On; Central, South Coast Polls Busy On Election Night

We're coming down to the wire, with the last couple of hours of voting on the Central and South Coasts.  Nearly a half million people in the region have already voted going into the 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline.

In Ventura County, the latest numbersshow 340,000 people have voted.  That’s a 68% voter turnout.  Ventur County elections officials say on Election Day, more than 10,000 people cast ballots between 7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Santa Barbara County is reporting 140,000 people turned in ballots.  That’s 61%.  But, the county hasn’t updated its number since Monday.

KCLU’s Lance Orozco reports from a polling place in the Conejo Valley where there were some lines this afternoon, but no long waits.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.