Alameda County's elections office plans to keep processing ballots on election night and the day after, then post a steady run of results updates, under a schedule the county's top election official laid out in an interview published Tuesday.
Registrar of Voters Cynthia Cornejo, a 30-year veteran of the office who moved into the top job this year, told Berkeleyside the approach worked in the June 2 primary.
Then, staff kept opening, signature-checking and scanning ballots as they arrived from vote centers on election night, working past 10 p.m., and were back processing ballots at 9 a.m. the next day instead of spending it on sorting.
When results should come
In June, the county sent its required report on uncounted ballots to the state on the Thursday after the election, released its first updated tallies that Friday, and followed with updates the next Wednesday and Friday and then twice a week. Cornejo said that is the goal again, and the office will try to squeeze in an extra update in week two.
The ballot processing is livestreamed, and the office posts a schedule and lets voters sign up for a notice when it begins.
She said she expects turnout similar to November 2024.
