Election officials say it may take days to see the winners of some of the most anticipated races as they work to count all of the ballots. Here are the Bay Area races that will have delayed results:
results are coming in, but not every Bay Area county will have all of the votes counted by Tuesday night.
Election officials say it may take days to see the winners of some races as they work to count all of the ballots - both dropped off on Tuesday and mailed in prior.San Francisco County won't be counting any ballots dropped off on Tuesday, the county's elections department director told ABC7 News. The results that do come out from the office will only include mail-in ballots dropped off prior to Tuesday.
This means there will be no results reported on Wednesday. The director says it could take at least a week to count and process all of the ballots. In Alameda County, since the mayoral race for the City of Oakland is by ranked-choice voting we may not know the final results until Thursday, the county registrar's office told ABC7 News. However, we will start to see preliminary results rolling in after the polls close at 8 p.m.A ranked-choice voting system is when voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner.
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