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ELECTION WATCH: Live Blogging the County Supervisors Race and Results of Measures A, B and C

Patch Editor Sarah Yokubaitis will be live blogging throughout the night as the results of the May 3 election are tallied.

9:26 p.m. Patch Editor David Carini has spoken to Gina Papan at her election party.

"The race is still too close to call. I'm extremely proud of the race we ran, and we did it on a bargain budget," she said. "A lot of people voted today and there are still numbers out there. There’s a lot of work to be done in this county, and win, lose or draw, we’re still going to be doing that work."

9:11 p.m. San Mateo County has released the final election results report of the night. Results will be certified in the coming days. Semi-official results show as the winner with 27.2 percent of the vote over 's 26 percent. Measures A and B appear to have passed, while Measure C did not get the required 2/3 majority needed to pass, garnering only 59.5 percent of the vote.

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9:05 p.m. Patch Editor Miriam Finder is reporting from Dave Pine's victory election party. The supervisor elect told Patch, "I'm ecstatic. It's a fantastic evening. It's been all consuming for for over six months. I've been working on it every waking minute."

"I'm so grateful for so many people who stepped up to help me," he said.

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Pine said his first priority in office is getting fiscal house in order.

8:55 p.m. Semi-officials results show that Dave Pine has won the supervisor seat, officials say. Percentage of vote tallied remains unknown.

8:47 p.m. "I think we have a margin that will hold, and appear to have won the race," said Dave Pine. "It really was anyone's race. I feel very fortunate that I've been able to win this very close election."

8:43 p.m.: "It does appear Dave Pine will be the supervisor-elect," says PenTV.

8:33 p.m. Officials do not know how many ballots were turned in today, and are therefore not yet counted. The percentage of the vote tallied is unknown, but estimated to be about 95 percent complete.

8:30 p.m. Measures A (San Carlos School District) and B (Ravenswood City School District) have both met the required 2/3 majority of the vote needed to pass.

8:21 p.m.: Patch Editor Miriam Finder is reporting from Terry Nagel's election watch party. 

"I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart," the candidate said to the 60 people in attendance. "For the most ethical...grassroots campaign."

After the results were announced Nagel said, "It was a really competitive race. There's not much I would have done differently. We gave it a good shot. It was a good education."

8:17 p.m. Preliminary results show a close race between , and , with Pine in the lead. Track the results on Patch .

8:03 p.m. The turnout for the last supervisor's election was 15 percent, but this year's is closer to 24 percent, preliminarily. Results coming in two minutes.

7:09 p.m. Jefferson Union High School District has Measure C on the ballot. Mike Crilly, superintendent of Jefferson Union High School District said this with regard to tonight's results.

"It's not over until it's over, and it's hard to say how it will turn out until it turns out," he said. "I'm hopeful that our local citizens have chosen to support schools, especially in light of the uncertainty in Sacramento. We really do not know what Sacramento is going to decide for schools."

Jefferson Union High School District estimates it could raise about $3.2 million annual for four years with Measure C, it's for a parcel tax after r. For more on Measure C,

6:20 p.m. PenTV will be hosting a live election special from 8 to 9 p.m. tonight. Hosts Mark Simon and Kevin Mullin will be talking with supervisorial candidates, measure backers, politicos, Professor Michelson and more. PenTV can be found on Comcast Channel 26 or AT&T Channel 99.

5:47 p.m. As of this morning, more than 76,000 ballots -- representing about
22 percent of San Mateo County's 314,000 registered voters -- had been received by the Elections Office in the county's first all-mail election for supervisor, according to Elections Officer David Tom.

12 workers will be counting the ballots by hand, according to Tom.

"Many firsts in this election.  This is a first all mail county wide election.  And another uniqueness is that they require that we do a hand ballot," he said. "During a normal election we're running 2 separate systems, the electronic vote machines and the hand ballots."

Tom told Patch that he and his team don't expect to work into the wee hours of the morning the way they typically do during larger elections.

"We anticipate a very short night with a final release at 9; we don't have to wait for results to come in from the precincts, so it's faster and more efficient than a normal election."

However, if you waited until the last minute to cast your vote, it may not be tallied tonight.

"The ballots we receive today and tonight will not be completely tallied until tomorrow, he said. "About 95 percent of the ballots will be tallied tonight.  Election law allows us to open ballots 7 days before election day, so we've been working for the past 20 days."

Preliminary results will be posted online beginning at 8:05 p.m. at  www.shapethefuture.org. Patch will be updating you with results as soon as they are posted.

5:44 p.m. It's not too late to cast your ballot! Ballots for the May 3 mail in election can be dropped off as late as 8 p.m. tonight. Still not sure who to cast your lot with? Read Patch's profiles on the six candidates for the county supervisor seat here:

Also today, voters in four Bay Area counties, including San Mateo County, will decide on 12 school parcel tax measures.

Bay City News contributed to this report.


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