Inside Elections

With three (three!) elections coming up within weeks of each other, the Elections Office is charging full steam ahead with various projects including Election Officer recruitment, ballot production, voter registration, and supply inventory.

While the May 5 Special School District Election is an all-mail ballot, plenty still needs to be done! Early voting for the May 5 election begins on April 6, and before that day arrives, we need to have our official ballots and Voter Information Pamphlets printed and mailed, and conduct logic & accuracy tests on BallotNow machines (the machines that tabulate the ballots).

The May 19 Consolidated Special Statewide Election and the June 2 Special School District Election are both elections that will have polling places.  This means that we need to recruit Election Officers and field personnel, conduct training classes, stock up on supplies, and confirm polling place locations in addition to the normal voter registration updates, ballot and Voter Information Pamphlet production, and eSlate and Ballot Now machine testing.

Extra help staff has already arrived to help us with these efforts.  In the past week, over 12,000 voter registration edit requests have been processed and the Election Officer unit phones have been ringing off the hook. By the way, we are recruiting student poll workers in addition to our regular Election Officers!  If you’re interested, contact (650) 286-2810!

Supplies have been inventoried and the organization of specific polling place supplies is beginning now.

Logic & accuracy testing of the eSlate voting machines and BallotNow machines begins on March 16 and matrices to organize testing have been created.

The election season is definitely in full swing! We’ll be posting pics soon so that you can have a sneak peek at the Elections Office!