Contra Costa supervisors may ask Gov. Newsom to make November election all mail-in

The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday could decide to ask Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare the November general election as a mail-ballot-only, to dispense with in-person polling places in the name of safety from the novel coronavirus.

According to a county staff report, 25 percent of Contra Costa County voters, approximately 175,000, vote in person. The “vast majority” of volunteers at those polling places are seniors, a group vulnerable to get the sickest from the coronavirus.