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San Francisco Nov. 8 elections: New districts and need for bilingual poll workers
San Francisco in want of bilingual ballot employees
Election Day is one week away. San Francisco’s Division Elections is placing out the phrase that they are on the lookout for bilingual ballot employees. Voters must also pay attention to some adjustments this fall concerning your voting district and polling location.
SAN FRANCISCO – Election Day is November eighth, however voters are already checking off their ballots in early voting. The San Francisco Division of Elections’ central voting middle is accepting ballots and has voting cubicles open on the primary ground of Metropolis Corridor.
“We have acquired about 75,000 ballots up to now. That is about 15% turnout,” stated John Arntz, the San Francisco Director Of Elections in San Francisco which has almost 498,000 registered voters.
Arntz says there may be one massive change this November.
“For this election, it is our first election because the metropolis re-districted in April,” stated Arntz, “Meaning some precincts have modified.”
Additionally, Arntz says the variety of polling locations has decreased from 588 to 501.
“The polling locations will nonetheless be inside 5-6 blocks on the most,” stated Arntz.
Arntz says they had been capable of get the ballot locations staffed, however nonetheless have a necessity for bilingual ballot employees in a metropolis the place folks can register to vote in additional than 12 languages.
“Six spots that we’d like Korean bilingual, however at all times if now we have people who find themselves Chinese language bilingual, Spanish bilingual that is at all times useful. Japanese bilingual is sweet too. We’ve a few polling locations the place Khmer is spoken,” stated Arntz.
On Election Day, the division additionally will place indicators on the outdated polls directing voters to the brand new places.
Voters who haven’t registered nonetheless can vote by going to the primary ground of Metropolis Corridor, or going to a polling place on election day.
Those that do have ballots have a number of choices for turning it in.
“So long as they get these ballots to again to us by election day or postmarked by election day, we will rely these ballots,” stated Arntz.
SF DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS WEBSITE:
https://sfelections.sfgov.org/voting
SF NEW DISTRICT LOOKUP SITE:
https://sfelections.org/instruments/districts_lookup/
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