The following gives the San Francisco election department adopted budgets each year beginning fiscal year 1994-1995 through fiscal year 2013-2014. This data was e-mailed to me by San Francisco Department of Elections 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48 San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 554-4375 sfvote@sfgov.org and the email said this data came from the Consolidated Budget and Annual Appropriation Ordinance reports for each fiscal year that are posted on the Controller's Office website - see http://sfcontroller.org/index.aspx?page=396 These numbers are appropriations, i.e. planned expenditures, which often differ from actual expenditures. Further, other claims have involved other numbers. For example in 2006-2007, the below data says originally budgeted=$9,126,318, agreeing with previous number acquired by Joyce McCloy & Chris Telesca, while they say the actual expenditure was $10,062,052. In 2007-2008 McCloy & Telseca got $19,809,917 as originally budgeted, differing slightly from below data's $19,396,291; and actually expended (McC & Telesca say) was $14,839,686. To put these numbers in perspective, the entire gross city budget in 2012-2013 was $10 billion, so the $12 million election department budget was 0.0012 fractionally. San Franciso's switchover to IRV (instant runoff voting) occurred in 2003-2004, denoted (*). For each block of 5 years we also provide the average. US presidential election years denoted "p". San Francisco mayoral election years denoted "m" (2007 was the first held with IRV). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AdoptedBudget$ FiscalYear (here 1994 means 1994-1995, FY ends on 30 June) 2,003,763 1994 3,635,421 1995m Average 2,646,787 1996p 2,981,232.00 3,763,624 1997 2,856,565 1998 4,533,518 1999m 10,418,605 2000p 8,421,722 2001 9,166,110.40 8,975,998 2002 13,480,709 2003m (*) 7,168,528 2004p 11,228,226 2005 9,126,318 2006 11,603,238.40 19,396,291 2007m 11,096,829 2008p 14,728,299 2009 9,770,810 2010 15,239,788 2011m 13,770,378.00 12,416,848 2012p 16,696,145 2013 --end.