SLIDESHOW: Election Day Around Belmont

As the workday wrapped up, the stream of voters at Belmont's seven polling precincts picked up a bit, but overall, . Poll workers seemed to have lots of downtime to get to know their fellow election volutnteers, and everyone who wandered in to cast a ballot received the full attention of all the workers.

Belmont voter Ray Burger expected a rush at his polling place in the Lodge at Twin Pines Park from 6-8 p.m.

In fact, poll workers reported that only 31 voters had come in so far. A handful of others stopped in to drop off their vote-by-mail ballots.

One election volunteer reported that up to 50 percent of the ballots cast in San Mateo would be vote by mail.

"I actually voted by mail, and stopped by here to drop it off," said Burger.

He said that Measure H, the $564 million bond for community college district improvements was the ballot issue that he felt most strongly about.

"The thing that galvanized my attention was the community college bond measure. This is the second half-billion dollar bond in nine years, meaning the college would have one billion dollars in bond debt. The face amount of that bond triples over the 30 year life of the bond, and that's way out of line," Burger said.

Burger, who has been active in Belmont for many years expressed the importance of voting in all elections, including these smaller, local contests.

Dan Murphy also stopped by the Lodge to cast his vote. Although he didn't express any strong feelings about any candidate or issue, he said he was voting because, "I feel it's my obligation to vote."

Some candidates and their supporters took to busy street corners to wave signs and give one final push to get voters to the polls.

Belmont city council candidate Eric Reed and his supporter Bob Cancilla were at the corner of Alameda de las Pulgas and Ralston Ave. waving signs for both Reed and candidate David Braunstein.

Cancilla said he had been out on the corner most of the day. "I'm having a ball. The people have been great," Cancilla said. "They honk and wave and laugh and someone brought me coffee and offered to bring me breakfast this morning."

Even as darkness approached, the campaigning continued around Belmont.