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Marin County, CA – Marin County Elections Department will start the manual tally of the November 3 General Election at 10 a.m. November 16, and the public is invited to attend.
Election staff will use a random number generator to determine a random selection of batches to be manually counted to confirm accuracy of the machine count. By hand, officials will count at least 1% of all ballots tabulated. The tally will be performed in the Elections Department, located in Suite 121 of the Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Drive in San Rafael.
A description of the manual tally process and the date, time, and place of the activities is posted on the Election department’s website.
“Democracy’s core is every vote is sacred,” said Registrar of Voters Natalie Adona. “The manual tally honors voters by upholding, above all else, that accuracy is of the utmost importance.”
The department updated its ballots counted on November 9, and planned three more updates over the next week for November 11, November 13 and November 17.
The latest update tabulated 91,634 ballots or about 70% percent of the ballots received. The election team still needs to count an estimated 41,670 ballots.
Voters who had a missing or non-matching signature on their ballot envelope have until 5 p.m. Wednesday, November 25, to return their corrected form in time to have their ballots counted.
The tally will continue weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. until the process is finished. The election will be certified no later than December 3.