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>> when you cast your vote in san francisco, you may do it through city hall or vote by mail. ever wonder when to cast your vote? how is your vote counted. let's follow your ballot from the moment it's officially certified by the department of elections. >> first we'll look at what happens to your vote at a polling place. when you cast your vote, your ballot is fed into a voting systems machine.

it reads your ballot and the data is stored inside on the memory cart cartridge. it provides san francisco with voting machines. high speed ballot scanners and software used to cast votes. when the memory is pulled from the memory. the cartridge is stored in a bag and sealed then a san francisco parking officer takes official custody of the cartridge to deliver it to city hall. the custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to the sheriff who takes it on election night. on election night. pier 48 is a hub of activity.

sheriff's bringing ballots lineup outside waiting to deliver inside the pier. it's a long night for these election employees. staff unpack and sort all the ballot bags and account for all the rosters for those dropped off at polling places. the inside ballots are counted by a machine and there is still more to do with these ballots. we'll get back to them a little later. meanwhile at city hall, the department of elections sets up

a one night only uploading center. staff and city employees ready to handle delivery and processing. >> on election night we set up the loading center here at city hall so we can process the votes as quickly and accurately as possible. first the election bag is placed on the reader to record it. next the cartridges and transfer papers are checked by our staff. then the cartridges with the votes for each precinct are fed into readers which are fed in the dominion software. these are results directly to the department computer for

tabulating. >> back at the polling place you might have cast your vote using the edge screen which is a screen touch system sch which allows others with disabilities to fill out an official blot. it's attached to the edge machine. >> i also need the edge printer. at the end of election day, a deputy sheriff takes custody of the sealed container from edge machine. >> you only have one edge printer, right? >> yes. >> these deputies transfer the container a lot with the ballots to the warehouse on pier 48. the department of election

staff opens the sealed container from every edge machine and reviews it's printed record. >> here at the department warehouse, teams of two people remove the record from each edge printer and check and double check to confirm whether or not those were cast. if votes are recorded on an edge printer, a team of two people remake the vote onto a blank paper ballot from that precinct. then a different two people confirm the votes and correct any errors. all the edge printer records are are -- archived. they transport to city hall and then fed to the machine for counting. that way all the votes cast on the machine are included in the

election. voters are encouraged to vote at their assigned polling place. people who cast their vote at a voting place other than their polling place are called provisional voters. they are taken to city hall for verification by staff. verification is to check to see if the voter is registered in san francisco. if the voter is registered in san francisco, their votes are counted for the correct contest they are into. more than 60% of san francisco voters cast their votes by mail. ballots cast by city hall are also by ballot. they are processed at the distribution center at the largest mail processing facility in san

francisco. >> so, it's quite a large operation. about 1500 employees throughout 3 shifts. it runs 24/7. 365 days a year and today we have all the ballots for the city of san francisco and today they will be processed for delivery. today we have a truck that has already come in. we are expecting about 218,000 ballots to come on 15 trucks. so far we have received three of the trucks and you can see there is a lot of mail here. right now we are getting raid to run the mail on digital bar code order. first we put it in carrier route sequence and walk sequence so it's real efficiency for the ballots for our constituents.

>> voters registration are dropped off at the polling boxes and it's transferred to a deputy sheriff who transfers them to pier 48. at the pier, ballots are collected. the number returned is noted and quickly transported by two deputy sheriff's and two department employees to city hall for processing. before any counting of any vote by mail ballot can happen, the voters signatures must be verified. first the unopen vote by mail ballot uses a scanner that picks up the bar code signature and the bar code identifies the voter and precinct and that is sent electronically to the voter for

verification. >> we have the signature on the voter registration file t voters name, precinct and signature is entered into the election information management system. staff reviews the voter information and signature on file and visually compares the signature. then we challenge the validity of the ballot. if the ballot is accepted, the voter is noted they have been accepted in the election. then it's send back electronically to the scanner. the envelopes are run through the scanner again to sort out any unverified ballots. on the second scanner pass, the ballots are also sorted by precinct. it makes extra effort to correct the system so the ballots can be verified and

their votes count. although accepted vote by mail ballot envelopes, used to be open by hand, they are now open by an extraction machine. >> it helps open the envelope on two sides and these on the machine you can pick up the ballot. it's probably twice as fast as a manual process. >> the ballots are then scanned by a dominion 400 c high speed scanner for each ballot card. at the same time employees check the dominion tally sheet and compare it to the printer. the scanner sometimes can't read a ballot due to damage or

light marking by a voter. these are transferred by hand by a 2-person team. these new ballots are returned to the scanner and the votes are added to the final tabulating. you can -- confirm your ballot was received and confirm your vote was counted at sf elections.org. >> at the end of each day which transfers the data from the scanners onto this laptop and we tabulate the votes. >> on the server these votes are combined with the votes already transmitted with the cartridges. >> once the data is loaded on this laptop, the server

tabulates the votes and we generate a report and post it on our website. >> along with the report, it also includes a precinct by precinct breakdown and posted by mail and a neighborhood turnout report. >> we are very proud of our data tool. it includes a lot of information about voter information with the voter district and party. we will continue improving. >> you would think that's the end of the story, but there is still more work out of pier 48 that needs to be done. california election code requires the manual tally of ballots in the precinct which is chosen by an elected official. for the 1% manual tally, the ballots selected are counted by

hand at the department warehouse. basically teams of four election match the ballots to the tally. there is a team for each ballot. two people tally the vote that is called and the two people confirm the votes and finally they are compared and compared to the electronic vote. >> this 1% manual tally is the last step for declaring the final results of the election. so from your home or neighborhood polling place, to city hall, by memory cartridge, high speed scanner or even manually, your vote is tabulated and declared by the san francisco department of elections. >>

issue. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 homeless census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to

accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies come on site and

provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. >> way totally different you can come and agree as please and get laundry services and showers any time of the day and night it's twenty-four hours a day whatever and twhefr it's not like any other she recalls. >> they come and help people for what it is they're required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that

better it works. >> the navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the homeless outreach team managed by the san francisco distributing i look forward to the navigation center we'll have our agents go out and help and say don't go anymore over and over send our dayshift out they've meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. >> bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i don't have to worry about it staying here you know you're getting things done

they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. >> they help you if you're hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. >> they're 4th district it awe auto. >> it was funded through a unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional $3 million to help to continue the program beyond 18 months. >> you see people coming out they're ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the navigation center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. >> this is a community that

sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky they've seen we're trying to do is help their neighbors they've seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us that's a powerful statement people are exist and president in they're becoming to see the movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. >> the staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. >> to get settled in a helping

hand to get on my feet take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. >> even though the navigation center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for it's clients. >> a month ago they came to me and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door don't worry about my stuff it feels human again