Vote By Mail Ballots For Special Election
To Begin Arriving In San Mateo Co.

March 18, 2008

San Mateo County residents may start receiving Vote by Mail ballots as soon as Monday for the April 8 Special Election for the 12th Congressional District.

The county elections office announced that Vote by Mail ballots have been sent, and early voting is now available as well. Residents who don't want to wait in lines April 8 can go to the Universal Voting Center in San Mateo to vote before the election date.

"There will be no lines and any voter, from any precinct in the 12th Congressional District can come in and vote early," San Mateo County Chief Elections Officer Warren Slocum said.

Congressman Tom Lantos, 80, was diagnosed with cancer in late December and announced he would not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 2 but committed to serving the rest of his 14th term through December.

Lantos died Feb. 11 at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland due to complications from esophageal cancer.

A special election will be held April 8 to elect a congressional representative to serve the remainder of Lantos' term, according to the San Mateo County Elections Office.

Lantos, D-San Mateo/San Francisco, was the only Holocaust survivor to be elected to Congress and served as a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He was the founding co-chairman of the 24-year-old Congressional Human Rights Caucus and was elected chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in January 2007, according to a spokeswoman.

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