state campaign where normally it just plays out on the airwaves. >> all right. thank you. let's go to josh campbell now in san francisco. how are local officials prerps to keep the votes secure as they count the ballots? >> yeah, despite this barrage of conspiracy theories that we've heard, officials have been working for months to prepare for the security and the integrity of election. officials tell us for example, the by mail and in-person voting, it all has extensive tracking logs. a paper trail. so from the scanning to the tabulation to what comes after, all of that has data that surrounds it. we're told after election day, a manual count is actually done to ensure that the records posted on election day and shortly there after match what happened to the ballots. we're told, jake, what we will see here shortly, sheriff's deputies escort all the ballots from the 580 locations where the votes were cast in the city to this location. unheavy security to ensure the