Photos: Coastsider visits San Mateo County’s Temple of Democracy

I dropped by the County Elections office (in a concrete warehouse off Highway 92) this morning at 8:30 to as a media observer of the pulling of materials for Monday’s recount of the Granada Sanitary District election. The only other observer there was Jim Larimer, representing Lisa McCaffrey, who called for the recount. All election materials are stored in a locked warehouse for six months, then they are destroyed. 

All the materials for the GSD election are loaded on a cart, and pushed over to the room where the votes will be counted.

The cart is locked in a separate room by itself until Monday’s recount. All votes will be counted manually, observed by representatives of the candidates.