POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED IN THE NOVEMBER 8 GENERAL ELECTION

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF – Polls are now closed across California for the November 8 General Election. Vote Centers in Santa Clara County will accommodate voters who are on-site and were in line to vote by 8:00 p.m.; lines are now capped and no additional persons will be allowed to enter.

When polls closed at 8:00 p.m., 248,256 ballots were tallied, which included Vote by Mail and Official Drop Box ballots that arrived before Election Day. The initial results have been posted on sccvote.org. They will be updated hourly through the night as results from our Vote Centers arrive and are added to the tally.

After Vote Center ballot tallying is completed, following today, the Registrar of Voters’ Office will continue to process Vote by Mail ballots that are received by November 15, until all such ballots have been counted. All Vote by Mail ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received within 7 days after the election will be processed and tallied as they come in.

The Registrar of Voters’ Office will post updated results on its website at 5:00 p.m. throughout the week. After the week of the election, results will be updated every other day at 5:00 p.m. Included in the updates are ballots such as provisional and damaged or unreadable ballots.

On the start of Election Day, there were 1,009,422 registered voters in Santa Clara County, and the Registrars’ Office had received about 342,811 returned ballots.

Media outlets that want to capture footage of the ballot-counting process at the Registrar of Voters’ Office should contact the ROV Media line at (408) 282-3008. For more information, please visit sccvote.org, or call (408) 299-VOTE (8683), or toll-free at (866) 430-VOTE (8683).

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