Contact: Mark Church, Chief Elections Officer & Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder
Alternate: David Tom, Deputy Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder

(Redwood City, CA) Election night returns for the April 9, 2013 Coastside Fire Protection District Special Recall Election will be publicly reported beginning at 8:05 p.m. on the official website of Registration & Elections Division, at www.shapethefuture.org.  Subsequent returns will be as follows:

8:05 p.m. – Vote by Mail Ballots received before Election Day
8:30 p.m. – All-Mail Precincts
9:00 p.m. – Voting Center (San Mateo)
10:00 p.m. – Precincts
10:30 p.m. – Precincts

Anyone may sign up to receive e-mail alerts with a link to the results page whenever new results are posted online.  The deadline for requests is April 8 at 5:00 p.m.   Go to www.shapethefuture.org and click on the link to April 9, 2013 Coastside Fire Protection District Special Recall Election under UPCOMING ELECTIONS to access the online request form, or call 650.312.5222. 

Election night returns will be posted on the Registration & Elections Division website in three convenient formats, at the “Get Election Results” link:

• The “RaceTracker” web application allows the user to customize the report to: display all or only selected races; see what percentage of the vote has been reported; know which precincts have reported and determine both percentages and raw vote totals from Vote by Mail ballots, early voting, and/or election day precinct voting. 
• Printable PDF format reports are available if a paper record of the results at each reporting interval is desired. 
• HTML format reports which are designed for fast, convenient, at-a-glance reviewing and scrolling of results.

In addition, real-time monitoring of the movement of voted precinct ballots from each polling place to the Registration & Elections Division Tally Room will also be possible with the website’s “Precinct Tracker” tool.

The press release is displayed in its original format. San Mateo County Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder & Elections website now resides at www.smcacre.org