Article 4. Canvass And Contest of California Water Code >> Division 5. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 4.

The polls at each polling place for the election shall be kept open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the day appointed for the election.

At the close of the polls the board of election shall deliver to the elections official all ballots, voting lists, lists of ballots cast at the election, and all documents and paper used at the election. The county elections official shall do both of the following:
  (a) Proceed to canvass the votes and declare the result.
  (b) Prepare a certificate showing the result and the number of votes cast for and against the issuing of bonds to the board.

The board shall examine and canvass the certificates received from the boards of election, and shall determine therefrom and declare, and enter in its minutes as the managing body of the drainage district, the total result of the election.

Any person interested may within 10 days after the result of the election has been determined and declared by the board, contest the election so far and to such an extent as the contest depends upon the votes or proceedings had in the matter of the election in any county, by bringing suit in the superior court of that county.

If no contest is commenced within the time mentioned in the next preceding section, the declaration of the result by the board is final and conclusive.