Okay, they do now have the total number of write-in votes for mayor, just not the names of the write-in candidates. They claim there are only 453 write-in votes for mayor -- how long could it take staff to count that many votes and provide a tally for each name? It's after 1130pm.
Also curious, for those who voted today, how many votes had been cast at your precincts when you voted, if you happened to notice?
I voted in the Castro (Everett Middle School) I think around 6pm, and the machine showed there had been about 830 ballots cast, with some people waiting to vote, so about 207 voters as of that time (there were 4 ballot sheets per voter), plus however many provisional ballots may have been cast.
There was also a curious incident while I was there. As a woman two ahead of me in line was giving them her ballots to feed into the machine, the election worker wasn't able to get one of them to go in. Saying it was jammed, another staffer ended up putting the ballot sheet in a separate side slot on the machine. But I stepped up and tried mine, and it worked fine. I then asked the staffer if she was going to get the woman's ballot out from the side and feed it into the machine (to be part of the count electronically displayed on the machine). But the worker said something about them not counting it that way. I kind of wished I'd pressed further, but people were waiting and often the elections workers themselves are not very well informed.
Another point of interest: The ballot receipts weren't being handed out intact on the ballots, as has usually been the case -- rather the ballot sheets were torn off a ream with the stubs still on it. I asked for mine, and a worker tore some off, but weren't sure which specific ones corresponded to the ballot sheets I'd filled out. They all have the precinct number on them, and one other apparently random ordered number, but that number did not seem to appear anywhere on the ballot sheets. None of the several workers I interacted with could explain anything further about this. I told them that in the past you were, in theory, supposed to be able to call the Elections Department and give them the number on your stub and find out whether your ballot had been processed. (Whether that ever worked in practice or not, I don't know.)
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