Marin County Registrar Thanks Poll Workers

San Rafael CA

17 November, 2020

3:11 PM

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MARIN COUNTY, CA – The Marin County Registrar of Voters this week thanked the 367 people who served as poll workers and support staff for the Nov. 3 general election under coronavirus pandemic conditions. "COVID-19 made this an especially challenging election," Registrar of Voters Lynda Roberts said. "But the willingness of people to serve as poll workers was outstanding, and the number of volunteers far exceeded our expectations." Roberts thanked the managing personnel from 29 locations that served as polling places from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3. Poll worker services manager Colleen Ksanda regularly told her crew, "As you know, we can't run an election without you, and we appreciate each one of you for your dedication, commitment and hard work to make it happen." Roberts also thanked the 50 trained full-time and part-time staff members for their dedication. Team members have been working overtime and weekends for several weeks to serve voters and process ballots. One final step before the election can be certified is the mandatory 1 percent manual tally of precinct ballots and batches of vote-by-mail ballots. The public process began at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Marin County Elections Department. Most of the roughly 1,500 ballots left to count are the provisional ballots that take "a lot of time to process manually," according to the Registrar of Voters. Ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 and received by Nov. 20 will be counted.