September 5, 2024
Dear San Francisco Voter,
Your four-card ballot for the November 5, 2024, Consolidated General Election includes state and local measures, contests in which you vote for one candidate, and several other contests in which you rank or vote for several candidates.
For instance, your ballot has several ranked-choice voting (RCV) contests for local offices in which you can rank the candidates according to your preferences. To learn more about RCV, visit our website at sfelections.gov/rcv. This page includes a tool you can use to practice marking RCV contests: sfelections.gov/practice.
Your ballot also includes two contests in which you can vote for four candidates: Board of Education and Community College Board of Trustees.
Reliable Election Information
This department is your most reliable source of information on voting and election procedures in San Francisco. Use our website or contact us if you have questions about your registration status or your ballot. Also, tell us if you receive or are aware of information regarding election processes that concern you.
The Department’s website provides voters with reliable information on voting. To learn more about voting in this upcoming election, visit sfelections.gov. Our website also provides a tool called the “Voter Portal” at sfelections.gov/voterportal that you can use to check the status of your vote-by-mail ballot, the location of your polling place and ballot drop-off boxes, and much more election information.
How to Contact Us
You can email us at sfvote@sfgov.org, or call us at (415) 554-4375. If you write or call, someone from the Department will be personally attentive to your questions and concerns. Our personnel are ready to answer your questions and provide election-related information in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino, as well as in hundreds of other languages via a telephone interpretation service.
When Will We Know the Final Results?
We will need several weeks to count the ballots and certify the election. The expected high turnout for the election combined with voters casting four-card ballots means we may need to process nearly 200,000 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots, or 800,000 cards, after Election Day. To prepare, we’ve added additional equipment, upgraded equipment to increase efficiencies, increased the number of ballot-processing personnel to hire, and scheduled multiple work shifts per day. Still, the volume of ballot cards we receive will likely require us to commit several weeks to count all the votes on these cards. Overall, we are expecting to process nearly 2 million ballot cards for this election.
As always, everyone in the Department is looking forward to providing you with the support and information you need to successfully participate in the upcoming November 5, 2024, Consolidated General Election!
Respectfully,
John Arntz, Director