How Bay Area county registrars ramp up preparations for uncertain November vote

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News July 20, 2024July 22, 2024

Stickers, keychains, pens, etc., laid out on a table for voters at the Santa Clara Country Registrar of Voters Office in San Jose, Calif., on Sept. 14, 2021. (Harika Maddala/ Bay City News)

Feeling assured, but preparing for anything, Bay Area election officials are staffing up and making security plans for a safe and valid Nov. 5 general election.

“In Solano County, 90% of our voters are going to vote by mail,” said John Gardner, assistant registrar of voters in Solano County. “Whether they put it in the mail or drop it off at one of our many dropoff locations or just dropping it off on election day.”

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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