Election Updates
Election Results Finalized
The final unofficial election results were taken to the Reorganization Meeting on April 18, 2011 where they were certified and made final. Below you will find the final official election results from the April 5th Glendale Municipal Election.
April 19, 2010
Unofficial Election Results
April 14, 2011
Final tally for April 5, 2011 Glendale Municipal Election are listed below (100% of precincts reporting.) Results will be finalized at the Organization Meeting of the City Council on April 18, 2011 at 8 p.m. at City Hall.
Results by precinct are available
here.
You can also review the
interactive election tracker for up-to-date precinct status.
Thursday April 14, 2011- Elections Processing, Canvassing and Counting
April 14, 2011
The following events will take place at the Election Center, located at 131 N. Isabel
in the GPD Community Room, and are open to the public:
9:00 am - The post-election day Canvassing of Vote-by-Mail ballots
and Provisional ballots (opening the returned vote-by-mail and provisional ballot
envelopes, removing the ballots, accurately duplicating any damaged or defective
ballots, and preparing the ballots for the ballot count) will commence.
11:00 am - The City Clerk or his designee, will review all Provisional
envelopes which have been rejected for deficiencies by the City Clerk.
2:00 pm The post-election count of the 2nd batch of Vote-by-Mail
ballots and Provisional ballots will commence.
April 5, 2011 Municipal Elections Process
April 8, 2011
Due to the narrow margin of votes currently separating the candidates for city council
and the number of outstanding ballots yet to be counted, the City Clerk’s office
has issued the following statement outlining the process to verify and count these
remaining 3153 ballots.
On Tuesday, April 5, 2011, the City of Glendale conducted its biennial election
for the following offices – City Council (2 seats), Glendale Unified School District
Board of Trustees (2 seats), Glendale Community College Board of Trustees (2 seats)
and Measure S (a bond measure for the GUSD). Having received over 13033 Vote by
Mail (VBM) ballots as of Monday, April 4, 2011, the City Clerk’s office and supporting
city staff were in preparations throughout the day on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, to
begin ballot counting shortly after the scheduled 8 p.m. closing of polls. The preparations
for the ballot counting procedure consisted of the verification of signatures and
a review of disqualifying requirements of a ballot per the California Elections
Code and Constitution of the State of California
At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, a cut off was declared for any additional VBM
ballots received by the City Clerk’s office either by mail or dropped off at the
Election Center. Any VBM ballots that came in after this period or that were dropped
off at various polling locations throughout the city on Election day were set aside
to be counted after the closing of polls and the initial unofficial Election Day
vote tally. These VBMs, along with
provisional ballots received at various polling locations throughout the
city, were set aside and secured and remain secure in the city’s Election Center.
The United States Post Office (313 E Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205) and City Clerk
staff were in contact leading up to and including the day of the Election to ensure
all ballots that were in transit at their distribution centers or at local stations
were received by the City Clerk’s office prior to the closing of polls on Election
Day.
Election Night Results & Post Election Day Tally
The VBM ballot count commenced shortly after 8:00 p.m. on April 5. All ballots delivered
to the USPS office on Broadway or those dropped to the Election Center prior to
the 4 p.m. cut-off, were processed and included in this tally. This tally included
13033 votes from 57 Precincts throughout the voting region (50 precincts within
the city, 6 in the unincorporated portions of the County of Los Angeles, and 1 precinct
for the VBM votes.) Inspectors began delivering secured ballot boxes to the Election
Center after all polling locations were declared closed at 8 p.m. and procedures
for closing and delivery of ballots to City Hall were implemented. The public was
able to follow and track these ballots via the internet through the
Interactive Election Tracker - a cooperative project between the City Clerk’s
office and the Rose Institute for State
and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.
At the conclusion of the evening, with all precincts reporting, the Unofficial Results
for the 2011 Election were posted at 11:30 p.m. on the city election website – www.GlendaleVotes.org. In the City Council
race, currently there are 162 votes that separate the first and third candidates
running for two Council seats. 27 votes separate the second and third candidates.
There remain 3,153 ballots to be processed which include Vote by Mail (VBM) and
Provisional ballots. Because of the close results, the City Clerk will begin the
aforementioned preparations of counting all remaining ballots on
Thursday April 14, 2011 at 9 a.m. This process will occur at the Election
Center located 131 Isabel St. in the Police Department’s Community Room. Public
viewing will be allowed for the preparations, processing and eventual count of the
remaining ballots. Results are expected to be announced the same day.
Precinct breakdowns on votes cast for candidates will be made available no later
than the following morning and can be viewed on www.GlendaleVotes.org. Unofficial
results can be viewed now. Logging onto to the Interactive Election Tracker provides
a viewer the opportunity to identify how many votes a Council candidate, GUSD Board
candidate, GCC Board of Trustees candidate, or Measure S has received thus far.
Note in particular, that clicking on certain precincts on the map (La Crescenta
area), you will find that there are no votes recorded for City Council candidates.
This area is in the County of Los Angeles, and although part of GUSD and GCC Districts,
they are not within the Glendale city limits. The sorting of VBMs by precinct and
the vote tallying system prevents the recordation of any vote for a council member
in these areas, whether cast at a precinct, sent by mail or dropped off at the polling
location or Election Center, as the system will reject the ballot.
Ensuring the Integrity of Your Vote
The city of Glendale and the Office of the City Clerk are committed to running open
and accessible elections that ensure every citizen his or her Constitutional right
to vote and have that vote tallied in accordance to the law. The City Clerk has
taken all precautions to protect the integrity of the process and the individual
ballots. There were no outstanding ballots omitted from the count prior to the 4
p.m. cut-off for processing. Currently, ALL ballots are secured in a vault with
continuous video recording surveillance within the Election Center located in the
Glendale Police Department. The Election Office and the Counting Room within the
Glendale Police Department are also under 24 hour video recorded surveillance.
Should there be a request for a recount, additional information will be available
after April 14, 2011.
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