The Department of Elections Randomly Selected Ballots for Manual Tally of Votes Cast in the November 3, 2020 Election
Department of Elections
City and County of San Francisco
John Arntz, Director
For Immediate Release
SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday, November 12, 2020 – The Department of Elections randomly selected ballots this morning to include in the 1% manual tally of votes cast in the November 3, 2020, Consolidated General Election.
The Department selected six precincts, using 10-sided dice, which represent one percent of the number of precincts used in the November 2020 election. The Department also selected four additional precincts to manually count certain contests not included on the ballots from the six precincts initially selected.
The Department also randomly selected 27 batches of vote-by-mail ballots, and four batches of provisional ballots.
The Department will manually tally these ballots to compare against results reported from the Department’s voting equipment to verify the accuracy of the voting system.
The Department webcast the random selection of the precincts and batches included in the 1% manual tally and posted a recording of the selection process on sfelections.org/observe-election-process.
Following is a list of precincts selected for the 1% manual tally of precinct ballots.
Precinct |
Ballot Type |
9512 |
29 |
9755 |
34 |
9708 |
32 |
7938 |
19 |
7052 |
7 |
7832 |
18 |
Following are the additional four precincts included in the manual tally to count certain contests not represented on the ballots associated with the initial six precincts selected.
Precinct |
Ballot Type |
Contest |
7644 |
15 |
BART, District 7 |
9138 |
23 |
Supervisor, District 1 |
7318 |
11 |
Supervisor, District 3 |
1114 |
1 |
Supervisor, District 11 |
Following is a list of batches selected for the manual tally of vote-by-mail ballot batches:
Batch |
Contests Included |
1260 |
All |
1441 |
All |
0964 |
All |
2205 |
All |
2507 |
All |
0237 |
All |
2114 |
All |
0112 |
All |
0332 |
All |
0122 |
All |
2649 |
All |
1037 |
All |
2362 |
All |
0849 |
All |
0387 |
All |
0919 |
All |
0019 |
All |
2186 |
All |
0982 |
All |
2322 |
All |
1284 |
All |
1928 |
All |
2061 |
All |
0305 |
All |
1833 |
All |
0730 |
All |
0589 |
All |
Following is a list of batches of provisional ballots and the contests included in the batches that were selected for manual tallying.
Batch |
Contests Included |
57 |
U.S. Representative District 12; State Assembly, District 17, BART Districts 7 and 9 |
11 |
Board of Supervisors, District 5 |
23 |
Board of Supervisors, District 9 |
28 |
State Assembly District 19, U.S. Representative District 14, Board of Supervisors, Districts, 1, 3, 7, and 11 |
Observing the Manual Tally Process
The manual tally of selected precincts will occur Friday, November 13, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Department’s warehouse on Pier 31. If necessary, the tallies will continue on Monday, November 16, from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The manual tally is open to public observation, either in person or by watching the live streaming on sfelections.org/observe-election-process.
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Department of Elections
City and County of San Francisco
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
City Hall, Room 48
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-4375
sfelections.org