Election Night Reporting Options in San Mateo County

Editor's Note: The following information was supplied by the San Mateo County Elections Office.

Election night returns for the Nov. 5, 2013 Consolidated Municipal, School and Special District Election will be publicly reported beginning at 8:05 p.m. on the official website of the San Mateo County Registration & Elections Division, www.shapethefuture.org.

Subsequent returns will be reported on the half-hour until all precincts have been accounted for, as follows:

• 8:05 p.m. – Vote by Mail Ballots
  8:30 p.m. – All-Mail Precincts
  9:00 p.m. – Early Voting Centers
  9:30 p.m. and each half-hour thereafter until complete – Live Precinct Ballots.

Anyone may sign up to receive e-mail alerts with a link to the results page whenever new results are posted online.  The deadline for requests is Nov. 4 at 5:00 p.m.

Go to www.shapethefuture.org and click on the link “November 5, 2013 Consolidated Municipal, School & Special District Election under “UPCOMING ELECTIONS” to access the online request form, or call 650.312.5222. 

Election night returns will be posted on the Registration & Elections Division website in three convenient formats, at the “Get Election Results” link:

●          The “RaceTracker” web application allows the user to customize the report to: display all or only selected races; see what percentage of the vote has been reported; know which precincts have reported and determine both percentages and raw vote totals from Vote by Mail ballots, early voting, and/or Election Day precinct voting.

●          Printable PDF format reports are available if a paper record of the results at each reporting interval is desired. 

●          HTML format reports which are designed for fast, convenient, at a glance reviewing and scrolling of results.

In addition, real-time monitoring of the movement of voted precinct ballots from each polling place to the Registration & Elections Division Tally Room will also be possible with the website’s “Precinct Tracker” tool.

Live video coverage of the Tally Room operations will also be available on www.shapethefuture.org.