The Santa Cruz County Clerk/Elections Department will count all remaining ballots from the November 8, 2005 Special Statewide Election at 10 a.m., Tuesday, November 22, 2005.

The bound copy of the certified Statement of Vote will be available for purchase within a week after the vote is certified; however, an electronic copy will be posted on the Elections Department's website at www.votescount.com as soon as it is available. Interested persons may purchase copies of selected pages of the Statement of Vote from the Elections Department’s office at 701 Ocean Street, Room 210 in Santa Cruz.

We want to take this opportunity to THANK YOU - the reporters, photographers, camera operators, editors, radio commentators - our local media experts, for the outstanding coverage you gave the November Special Statewide Election.

For additional information, please call County Clerk Gail L. Pellerin at 831-454-2419.

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For more information, please call the Santa Cruz County Clerk/Elections Department at 831-454-2060, visit our office at 701 Ocean St., Room 210 in Santa Cruz, or check out our website at www.votescount.com.