WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 And the St. Louis County Clerk. 00:03.000 --> 00:06.000 Yes, can I speak to Susan Ranicek? 00:06.000 --> 00:08.000 One moment. 00:08.000 --> 00:10.000 Oh, I think it should. 00:10.000 --> 00:11.000 This is Sue. 00:11.000 --> 00:18.000 I have my official mail-in ballot, and I haven't mailed it in yet. 00:18.000 --> 00:26.000 I'm hoping that, and this is a question, if I mail it in Friday, is that too late? Friday tomorrow? 00:26.000 --> 00:35.000 We should receive it by Tuesday. There are a couple of options if you'd like to hang on to it. 00:35.000 --> 00:43.000 If you want to take it to the post office on Election Day, we do have someone coming around to all the post offices 00:43.000 --> 00:49.000 and picking up that mail before it gets processed, or you can take it to your closest polling place. 00:49.000 --> 00:54.000 Friday's getting a little close. But it should, we should get it by Tuesday. 00:54.000 --> 01:00.000 And is it true we could also take it to a polling place on Election Day? 01:00.000 --> 01:10.000 Absolutely. You can drop it off at a polling place. We've enclosed a list of polling places within the county with your vote-by-mail ballot. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 That's that yellow sheet that came. 01:12.000 --> 01:13.000 Right. 01:13.000 --> 01:23.000 Right. And do those votes get counted the same as all votes, or are those like only counted if there's something close? Is every vote counted? 01:23.000 --> 01:24.000 Every vote gets counted. 01:24.000 --> 01:35.000 So then the other thing that I noticed this year, well, it's always been there, but it apparently is very important that I sign my ballot, 01:35.000 --> 01:42.000 and I put the date on it, and I put my address, and then what is this authorization? Oh, that's if someone's... 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 Is going to drop it off for you. 01:44.000 --> 01:48.000 Okay. So if you send, if you hand it over at the post office, it's fine. 01:48.000 --> 01:49.000 That's fine, yes. 01:49.000 --> 01:59.000 And then I don't remember having this privacy flap do not remove. What happens? I mean, I actually almost removed it. So what would happen if I removed it? 01:59.000 --> 02:07.000 Well, some folks don't like their signature exposed. This is a new privacy flap that we're using this year. It's only half. 02:07.000 --> 02:16.000 If you remember the previous privacy flap, it covered the mailing label also. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 Aha. So this one, I just lick it and put it over my signature. 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 Yes. 02:22.000 --> 02:29.000 And this Friday is probably too late. On Election Day only, you can take it to the post office anytime? 02:29.000 --> 02:39.000 And what they do is they hold the mail for us, and we have a, basically a deputy county clerk come around and pick up those ballots. 02:39.000 --> 02:45.000 Okay. So that's only Election Day. In other words, I couldn't take it there Monday, or could I? 02:45.000 --> 02:54.000 They would mail it, and there's no guarantee that we would receive it by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Postmarks don't count. 02:54.000 --> 03:03.000 Okay. Probably also, if you can give us some phone numbers or a phone number that's the best place if someone still has a question after they've heard this. 03:03.000 --> 03:19.000 If you look at the back of your envelopes, we have both our 800 number and our area number. The area number is 707-463-4371. 03:19.000 --> 03:36.000 Our 800 number is 1-800-992-5441, and then you're going to hear a prompt, and you can enter either 4370, 4371, or 4372. 03:36.000 --> 03:47.000 Okay. And I see it says here, if you return a spoiled ballot, clearly marked spoiled by mail if time permits. 03:47.000 --> 03:56.000 So what happens if you've spoiled your ballot and there's not time to get a new one? Can I get a new one at any place else? 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 Go to the polling place. 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 Go to the polling place, and they'll give whoever a new one. 04:02.000 --> 04:09.000 Right. You'll have to surrender your spoiled ballot, and they will have you vote provisionally. 04:09.000 --> 04:13.000 Okay. And that vote will get counted just the same as everything else? 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 Absolutely. 04:14.000 --> 04:23.000 All right. So we can deliver it to the post office on Election Day. We can deliver it to a polling place anytime between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 That's correct. 04:24.000 --> 04:30.000 And we could actually, if we needed to or were close by, drop it off at the election office at the county? 04:30.000 --> 04:37.000 Absolutely. It's a polling place also. We'll be open at 7 a.m., and we will lock the doors at 8. 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 Okay. And then the first returns, when can we expect to see the first returns? 04:42.000 --> 04:50.000 We usually try to upload them on our website before 8.30, usually between 8.15 and 8.30. 04:50.000 --> 04:59.000 And then that goes up to a certain point at night, and then you continue counting the next day? Does most everything get in that night? 04:59.000 --> 05:07.000 The first upload that we do is the vote by mails that we have processed and scanned through our tabulators. 05:07.000 --> 05:13.000 The remaining updates through the night are going to – usually they're by region. 05:13.000 --> 05:21.000 The first polling places that get dropped off to us is Ukiah, and then the next update after that would include Willett and Laytonville. 05:21.000 --> 05:26.000 And then you'll start seeing results for the coast after that, a little later in the evening. 05:26.000 --> 05:37.000 It usually takes between an hour and a half, and on a bad weather night sometimes three hours to drive back from the coast before we can start tabulating those ballots. 05:37.000 --> 05:43.000 Okay. All right. Well, I think we've got everything. 05:43.000 --> 05:44.000 Okay. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 Well, thank you. 05:45.000 --> 05:56.000 You're very welcome.