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