Final supes results expected by weekend

The counting is almost over – and the question of who’ll face incumbent First District Supervisor Valerie Brown in November’s runoff may be answered as early as today.
“By Thursday or Friday we’ll have some totals,” assistant Registrar Of Voters Gloria Colter said yesterday morning. “It takes a while to run the cards all the way through.”
Brown failed last Tuesday to gain the electoral 50 percent needed to retain her Board of Supervisors seat, meaning a Nov. 4 runoff between the top two vote-getters. Preliminary results show Brown in the lead with 9,422 votes (44.2 percent), Will Pier at 4,796 votes (22.5 percent) and David Reber with 4,335 votes (20.4 percent).
Of the 160,000 ballots sent out by the county, Colter said precinct workers had received 14,700 absentee or provisional ballots on Election Day with another 5,000 arriving by mail. Since the ballots can be dropped off at any polling place – not just in a voter’s residential precinct or supervisorial district – Colter’s staff has been opening each envelope, matching each ballot to its native precinct and checking the signature to make sure no one voted twice. The ballots will then be run through a computer which has already been tested three times against tampering (twice before election night and once before the final ballot run) and will be tested again right afterward.