2100 Piedmont Residents Have Voted. Have You?
City voters take to voting by mail –
As of Friday, February 3, 2012, approximately 2,100 Vote By Mail Ballots (VBMB) had been received from Piedmont voters by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.
This represents a continuation of the trend since November, 2004, when 3,120 VBMB accounted for 45.45% of the vote, through February 2010 when 2,401 VBMB accounted for 73.90% of the votes cast.
The increase of voting by mail in recent years is a reversal of the earlier trend toward in-person voting at City polls. From February 1998, when absentee ballots numbered only 497 or 30.42% of the vote, through March 2002, when 740 absentee ballots accounted for only 19.69%, the percentage decreased.
Now, with the encouragement of the Registrar as a cost-saving device and the change of name from “absentee ballots,” voting by mail seems to be a popular trend.
All ballots must be cast by 8 pm February 7.
