FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Local political parties are making calls, sending postcards and putting up signs to earn last-minute votes Friday.

Fresno County officials say they are seeing the highest voter participation in years.

"We are very optimistic and hopeful about the outcome next week because we know that we've put the energy in and so is the entire nation," Fresno County Democratic Party First Vice Chair Marsha Conant said.

Conant says she's confident California will go blue in the presidential election, so the Fresno County Democratic Party is spending its energy calling voters from swing states.

"They will have made over 25,000 calls. So it's been a busy place, a very busy place, more engaged than, well, people say back to the first Obama campaign," Conant said.

Fresno County Republicans, on the other hand, are focusing their efforts outside the headquarters.

"Everybody is out in the field for the most part, which is part of the reason that the office isn't open that often. Because it takes volunteers who run the office, and, right now, our volunteers are out boots on the ground working," Fresno County Republican Party Chairwoman Elizabeth Kolstad said.

Kolstad says the party has spent $85,000 campaigning for local candidates, and they believe it will be worth every penny.

"People know how much money they have in their account or how much they don't have in their account left, as the case may be. So it's not hard to ask them to vote Republican at this time. Maybe easier than any of the elections that I can remember," Kolstad said.

She says the best way for residents to get candidates to stop calling and texting is to cast their ballot.

Fresno County has 53 in-person voting locations and 67 drop boxes.