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Simon Willison

A thing I have learned about voting in US elections in California is that you should do vote by mail, but be sure to return the ballot before 1st November

If you instead of drop off your pre-filled ballot on 5th of November it doesn't get counted for several more days (still waiting here)

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Simon Willison

This is particularly frustrating when one of your hyper-local elections only attracts a few thousand votes total and two of the candidates are within 100 votes of each other!

Daniel Jackoway

@simon This means you have key information that no one else has! go nuts on Polymarket 😝

Simon Willison

Wow, it looks like San Mateo County only continues counting votes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - could be a couple of more weeks before all of our local elections are 100% decided! smcacre.gov/elections/november

The post-election day results will be released before 4:30 p.m. on the following dates:

    Thursday, November 7
    Friday, November 8
    Monday, November 11 (Veterans Day)
    Wednesday, November 13
    Friday, November 15
    Monday, November 18
    Wednesday, November 20
    Friday, November 22

Additional results releases may be scheduled as needed.

Results will be certified on December 5.
Dan Lyke

@simon here in Sonoma we get updates Tuesday and Thursday. Waiting with bated breath on one particular race that's turning into a real nail biter.

Sam Solomon

@simon I'm guessing they count at least 5 days a week but in order to publish reports they probably need to go though some procedure that isn't negligible, so they only report every other day to have more time for counting.

Marcello Bastéa-Forte

@simon I did that and it got counted early this morning

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