The Santa Cruz County Clerk/Elections Department has election information available for the May 19, 2009 Special Statewide Election. We appreciate your efforts in helping to inform our voters of the news and deadlines regarding the Special Election.

The materials available online at www.votescount.com include:

Voter Information Guide – printed by the Secretary of State and mailed to each voter household in the state. The guide includes analyses, text and arguments for and against each of the state propositions.

Deadline to Register to Vote – May 4

Voter Information Pages providing voting options, services for persons with disabilities, how to mark your ballot, information about polling places.

Voter registration numbers by district and by party

Number of Vote-by-Mail Ballots Issued to Date. This statewide list includes those ballots mailed to overseas and military voters beginning March 20, and ballots mailed to permanent, mail ballot and mail request voters beginning April 20.

Vote-by-Mail ballot application

Where to vote and what’s on your ballot

Election Calendar for the May 19, 2009 Special Statewide Election.

And, beginning soon after 8 p.m. on Election Night, vote results will be posted online here.

Please let us know as soon as possible if you need our assistance in making any special arrangements in your efforts to cover the election.

PHONE NUMBERS:

831-454-2060 = Main Line / Election Night Results
831-454-2445 = FAX
831-454-2419 = County Clerk’s direct line
408-316-9745 = County Clerk’s cell phone

WHERE BALLOTS ARE COUNTED:

Santa Cruz County Clerk/Elections Department
701 Ocean St., Room 210
Santa Cruz, CA

CONTACT: Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk

WEB PAGE:

Please visit our web site at www.votescount.com for election night results and other information on the May election.

VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOT EARLY RETURNS: Results released soon after 8 p.m.

PRECINCT RESULTS:

Precinct ballots typically start coming in around 10 p.m. It can take until midnight or later to process all of the precinct ballots on election night. Updates to the website will be made as soon as possible. Accuracy is more important than speed, so we will take the time, care and consideration necessary to count ballots accurately.

RESULTS BY PHONE:

Telephones will be staffed throughout the night for callers to phone in and obtain results. CALL 831-454-2060.

Election results by contest are simple to provide over the phone. However, if you are interested in obtaining more specific voting result information, we encourage you to be present at the Elections Department.

SEMI-OFFICIAL RESULTS:

Once the last ballot is counted, a Semi-Official Election Summary Report will be available from the County Clerk/Elections Department. It will also be posted here on our web site. A precinct-by-precinct report will be available here the next afternoon.

An estimated number of the remaining vote-by-mail ballots and provisional ballots to be counted during the canvass will be available from the Elections Department the day after the election. An exact number will be available within 7 days following the election.

FINAL RESULTS:

The official canvass of ballots will begin Wednesday, May 20. The law provides 28 calendar days to complete the canvass.