[EL] Question for the list about tabulation of early in-person votes

[Mary Hill]

Dear Pamela,

For my Vote Center county in CA, all votes are being processed as they come in. We have a few 30 day vote centers, so any votes received (whether early in-person or a Vote by Mail ballot) on E-20 will be processed well before Election Day. We do our best to keep up as best as we can with ballots We just don’t tabulate any of the votes (VBM/Early in-person votes/Etc) until 8pm Election Night. Once 8pm hits, all of our processed, scanned, and adjudicated ballot results are tabulated and we can start updating our live voter turnout site. (linked below)

https://www.livevoterturnout.com/SanMateoCA/LiveResults/en/Index_3.html

If anyone decides to ask for more information we can look into our Tenex ePollbook results to see how many early in-person votes we receive (in total, or per day), and I’m sure we have the same for VBM, that’s just not my department.

Let me know if this helps!

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Mary Hill   [she/her]
Elections Specialist
• Office: (650) 655-6246 |  📱 Mobile: (650) 722-8100

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From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu>> on behalf of Pamela S Karlan <pkarlan at stanford.edu<mailto:pkarlan at stanford.edu>>
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Subject: [EL] Question for the list about tabulation of early in-person votes

How are early, in-person votes tabulated if people vote early at county office buildings or voting centers or the like? Do those votes get attributed or sent to a voter's precinct for processing before election day itself, or are they somehow included in the election day total?

Many thanks for any information y'all have. I'm writing a short piece that discusses, among other things, the blue shift and wonder whether these votes play into that one way or another.


Pamela S. Karlan

Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law

Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Stanford Law School

karlan at stanford.edu<mailto:karlan at stanford.edu>

650-725-4851

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