{"id":343268,"date":"2026-06-02T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:08","slug":"election-2026-updates-latest-on-race-for-california-governor-nancy-pelosis-seat-and-how-to-vote-in-june-2-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343268\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026 updates: Latest on race for California governor, Nancy Pelosi’s seat and how to vote in June 2 primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A San Mateo County voter says she arrived to an empty and unlocked voting center on Sunday.<\/p>\n

San Mateo County voter Madelyn Webster went to drop off her ballot at a voting center at Notre Dame de Namur University Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The only issue was there was no one there.<\/p>\n

“We also checked the front door thinking maybe they’re taking a break in the front but that was locked. And then we called out again because there were restrooms there,” Webster said.<\/p>\n

Webster says she walked around the building for about 10 minutes trying to find someone before eventually leaving.<\/p>\n

She tells us she arrived to the voting center around 6 p.m., about an hour after it had closed.<\/p>\n

But, unaware of the operating hours, she thought it was still open since the doors were unlocked and a vote here banner was flying outside.<\/p>\n

MORE: Who’s running for California governor? Hear from top candidates<\/a><\/p>\n

The incident prompted Webster to send an email to the county’s chief elections officer.<\/p>\n

The election’s office says the voting center at NDNU is not one that’s operated by the county.<\/p>\n

They say every day at 5 o’clock their staff secures the voting machines and removes all ballots from the facility.<\/p>\n

It’s then up to the school staff to ensure the building is locked and secured.<\/p>\n

The elections office was unavailable to go on camera Monday night but told ABC7 Eyewitness News in an email:<\/p>\n

“The matter was reviewed by our Vote Center and supervisory staff and confirmed that all ballots, voting equipment, and election materials remained secure and were not compromised.”<\/p>\n

MORE: New poll shows Steyer edging Hilton in CA governor’s race as battle for 2nd tightens<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to the county election’s office, Webster also reached out to Supervisor David Canepa.<\/p>\n

Canepa himself is on the ballot Tuesday- running for chief elections officer against the current assistant.<\/p>\n

He says the regardless of who is responsible for keeping the facility locked, the incident raises unnecessary concerns.<\/p>\n

“How did this happen? We need to understand how did this happen? And was this a one-off or has this happened before?” said Canepa.<\/p>\n

The voting center was locked after hours Monday when ABC7 arrived to check.<\/p>\n

Welcome news to Webster who says she just wanted to make sure everything was okay.<\/p>\n

“I kept my ballot because I wanted to make sure it got into the right hands. So only after dinner did we drop it off at the Belmont police station,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Mateo County voter says she arrived to an empty and unlocked voting center on Sunday. San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141230,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-343268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-141230","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}