If you’ve already mailed your ballot or cast an early vote, thank you. If not, San Francisco’s Voting Center on the ground floor of City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place) and all local polling places will be open from 7am to 8pm on November 8.
As always, we’re more concerned with whether you vote versus which way you do, so please #vote. We’ll have the early results for the real estate related measures early tomorrow morning.
UPDATE (11/9): Based on an early tally of 158,200 votes, which primarily includes 132,296 vote-by-mail ballots that were returned prior to yesterday along with 25,904 of the ballots which were cast at polling places and together which represent 31.8 percent of the potential votes in San Francisco, here are the preliminary results for the real estate related ballot measures we’re tracking:
Proposition B (Eliminates stand-alone Department of Sanitation and Streets): 74% YES / 26% NO
Proposition C (Establishes a Homelessness Oversight Commission): 64% YES / 36% NO
Proposition D (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 49.6% YES / 50.4% NO
Proposition E (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 44.6% YES / 55.4% NO
Proposition I (Allows Vehicles on JFK Drive and the Great Highway): 39% YES / 61% NO
Proposition J (Preserves Closure of JFK Drive to Vehicles): 59% YES / 41% NO
Proposition M (Establishes a Vacancy Tax for Multi-Family Residential Units): 53% YES / 47% NO
UPDATE (11/10): With an additional 9,600 votes having been tallied, for a total of 167,798, with around 137,000 ballots left to be counted, none of the preliminary outcomes for any of the measures above have changed:
Proposition B (Eliminates stand-alone Department of Sanitation and Streets): 74% YES / 26% NO
Proposition C (Establishes a Homelessness Oversight Commission): 64% YES / 36% NO
Proposition D (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 49.6% YES / 50.4% NO
Proposition E (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 44% YES / 56% NO
Proposition I (Allows Vehicles on JFK Drive and the Great Highway): 39% YES / 61% NO
Proposition J (Preserves Closure of JFK Drive to Vehicles): 61% YES / 39% NO
Proposition M (Establishes a Vacancy Tax for Multi-Family Residential Units): 53% YES / 47% NO
UPDATE (11/11): With an additional 27,500 votes having been tallied over the past day, for a total of 195,327, with around 110,000 ballots left to be counted, none of the outcomes for any of the measures above have changed. And the margin for Proposition D, which would streamline approval for affordable housing projects, has slightly widened to 49.4% YES / 50.6% NO.
UPDATE (11/14): With 246,515 votes having been tallied and around 60,000 ballots left to be counted, none of the preliminary outcomes for any of the measures above have changed and the margin for Proposition D has further widened to 48.8% YES / 51.2% NO, so we’re considering the results final.
UPDATE: Based on an early tally of 158,200 votes, which primarily includes 132,296 vote-by-mail ballots that were returned prior to yesterday along with 25,904 of the ballots which were cast at polling places and together which represent 31.8 percent of the potential votes in San Francisco, here are the preliminary results for the real estate related ballot measures we’re tracking:
Proposition B (Eliminates stand-alone Department of Sanitation and Streets): 74% YES / 26% NO
Proposition C (Establishes a Homelessness Oversight Commission): 64% YES / 36% NO
Proposition D (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 49.6% YES / 50.4% NO
Proposition E (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 44.6% YES / 55.4% NO
Proposition I (Allows Vehicles on JFK Drive and the Great Highway): 39% YES / 61% NO
Proposition J (Preserves Closure of JFK Drive to Vehicles): 59% YES / 41% NO
Proposition M (Establishes a Vacancy Tax for Multi-Family Residential Units): 53% YES / 47% NO
Decent chance that “No on M” catches up as votes continue to come in.
Nope.
Prop M was so poorly written. It really shows what the city thinks is happening in permitting and construction and why the issues aren’t getting fixed.
You get 1 year from turning in a permit to building to avoid paying. You get no credit, I guess, while you are waiting for the planning approval time. Then you get 1 year for construction from the FIRST PERMIT, yet often you will be getting a site permit about a year before you get a permit to actually build. It’s like they think a permit application start to finish takes less than year, and then you can build units within a year as well. Or more likely they know these numbers are all wrong but want to grab some money on the slow process they created.
Prop M wasn’t written by “the city.” It was placed on the ballot via petition (ie signatures).
Placed on the ballot by petition, sure, but obviously it was written, and written poorly. 6 current Supervisors signed paid arguments in favor of it and promoted it, plus many other people in the “city family”.
UPDATE (11/10): With an additional 9,600 votes having been tallied, for a total of 167,798, with around 137,000 ballots left to be counted, none of the preliminary outcomes for any of the measures above have changed:
Proposition B (Eliminates stand-alone Department of Sanitation and Streets): 74% YES / 26% NO
Proposition C (Establishes a Homelessness Oversight Commission): 64% YES / 36% NO
Proposition D (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 49.6% YES / 50.4% NO
Proposition E (Streamlines Approval of Affordable Housing Projects): 44% YES / 56% NO
Proposition I (Allows Vehicles on JFK Drive and the Great Highway): 39% YES / 61% NO
Proposition J (Preserves Closure of JFK Drive to Vehicles): 61% YES / 39% NO
Proposition M (Establishes a Vacancy Tax for Multi-Family Residential Units): 53% YES / 47% NO
at this counting rate, it will take 2 more weeks to finish. 9600 ballots counted in >1 day is not very encouraging
It won’t be a linear progression. The vast majority of the uncounted ballots are vote-by-mail ballots that were either returned to polling places on Election Day or have since been received, but with valid postmarks, ballots that needed to be transported and processed prior to being tallied.
Expect a sharp jump in the number of ballots counted over the next few days, which should solidify the results, but the Department of Elections does have until December 8 to finalize the counts.
It’s not just “counting.” per the SOS’ site: In processing vote-by-mail ballots, elections officials must confirm each voter’s registration status, verify each voter’s signature on the vote-by-mail envelope, and ensure each person did not vote elsewhere in the same election before the ballot can be counted.
UPDATE: With an additional 27,500 votes having been tallied over the past day, for a total of 195,327, with around 110,000 ballots left to be counted, none of the outcomes for any of the measures above have changed. And the margin for Proposition D, which would streamline approval for affordable housing projects, has slightly widened to 49.4% YES / 50.6% NO.
UPDATE: With 246,515 votes having been tallied and around 60,000 ballots left to be counted, none of the preliminary outcomes for any of the measures above have changed and the margin for Proposition D has further widened to 48.8% YES / 51.2% NO, so we’re considering the results final.