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I don't remember which the best sites for election results were, but here are a couple:

http://vote.ss.ca.gov

Secretary of State website

Results are not posted until all the polls close.
Polls close at 8pm on November 7, 2006.

http://www.sdvote.com

San Diego Election Results

• The first bulletin on election night will be released just after 8 p.m. and consist of the absentee ballots voted on paper that have been signature verified and prepared for tabulation.

• The second bulletin will be at approx. 10 p.m. and will consist of absentee ballots cast on the touchscreens at the Registrar’s office during the 29-day voting period. (This will be cumulative; including the results of the first bulletin.)

• Precinct results will appear on the third bulletin at 10:30 and then every 30 minutes after that. (Again, cumulative; including results from the first two bulletins.) If it is important for you to know the absentee results later, then you should print out the first and second bulletins before the precinct totals show up.

• Precinct-by-precinct totals will be available a day or two after the election. Please call before you come to the Registrar’s looking for them. It will be a few thousand pages and we might wait until after one or two of the add-on counts, just so they are more complete. The final precinct results will be available after the election is certified; no later than December 5. A certified copy will be mailed to each jurisdiction with candidates or propositions on the ballot.

Hubby and I voted earlier than normal today. We usually don't vote until after 6pm when he arrives home from work but today he was able to leave earlier so we voted around 4pm. We didn't expect there to be many people voting at that time but we were wrong. By the time we were finished voting there was a line of at least 20 people waiting to get inside to vote.

We are in Santee, suburb of SD. Our voting place is in the garage of a residence. Once we were inside the garage and checked in, we then had to wait for one of the 3 voting machines to become available. In the meantime, the poll workers were asking the people in line if anyone would like to use a paper ballot. Many chose that option and were outside of the garage, sitting on the lawn, retaining walls, etc. marking their ballots.

One of the poll workers told us that they had tried to get more voting machines but were told that no more were available. He also said that this was the largest turnout so far that they had ever had at this particular voting place. I can't wait for the results to come in!

Oh! And when we arrived back home, Arnold had called and left a message : )