# South San Francisco City Clerk

Rosa Govea Acosta is running uncontested for South San Francisco City Clerk. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. The City Clerk keeps South San Francisco's official records. The Clerk also runs municipal elections and handles public records requests. This is a separately elected position with a 4-year term.

- Jurisdiction: City of South San Francisco
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 7, 2026
- Source-objectivity score: 86 out of 100 (Strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Rosa Govea Acosta** — City Clerk · Incumbent

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Only one candidate qualified for City Clerk. That candidate is Rosa Govea Acosta. This contest is settled. Your vote here does not change the outcome.

South San Francisco's City Clerk is a separately elected, 4-year-term office: it keeps the city's official records, administers municipal elections, and processes public-records requests.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next.

## Rosa Govea Acosta

Govea Acosta's filed ballot designation is simply "City Clerk." Under California election law, that designation is only allowed if it names their actual current elected office. So it confirms their incumbency on its own. A California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS filer search finds two prior committees. Both are now terminated. One is from their 2018 run. The other is a 2022 committee named "Re-elect Rosa Govea Acosta." That name shows they were already the incumbent seeking a second term four years ago. This cycle would be at least their third term.

**Strengths:** A multi-term incumbency in a records and elections role where continuity has real value. Govea Acosta's own committee naming history shows at least two prior elected terms.

**Trade-offs:** No independent reporting or official city bio describes what they have done in office. The city's own site, ssfca.gov, blocked automated access throughout.

**Keep in mind:** They are running unopposed for a third term or more. So this seat's accountability runs through public records requests and city meetings. It does not run through this ballot.

## Sources

1. [San Mateo County ACRE (Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder-Elections) -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, confirming both District 5 (Short Term) candidates and their ballot designations, and that Board of Education Trustee Area 2 is the only one of three expiring county trustee areas flagged 'On Ballot: Yes'](https://smcacre.gov/system/files/2026-08/52_candidateroster0825.pdf)
2. [Wikipedia -- South San Francisco, California: 'Government and politics' section names a five-member City Council elected by district to 4-year terms, with the Mayor and Vice Mayor selected by the council itself in an annual rotation rather than directly elected -- confirming why there is no Mayor contest on the November 2026 ballot. Also names the sitting council roster (Mayor Mark Addiego, Vice Mayor Mark Nagales, and Councilmembers James H. Coleman, Eddie Flores, and Buenaflor Nicolas) and dates Eddie Flores's appointment to the council to January 26, 2021, filling a vacancy left by Karyl Matsumoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_San_Francisco,_California)
3. [California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer search for "Rosa Govea Acosta": two TERMINATED committees only -- "ACOSTA FOR SSF CITY CLERK 2018" and "ACOSTA FOR SFF CITY CLERK 2022; RE-ELECT ROSA GOVEA" (the 'RE-ELECT' naming confirms she was already the incumbent in 2022) -- no active 2026 committee found](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Rosa%20Govea%20Acosta)
4. [San Mateo County ACRE (Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder-Elections) -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, confirming South San Francisco's five contests (Council Districts 1, 3, 5; City Clerk; City Treasurer), the qualified candidate in each, and each candidate's filed ballot designation](https://smcacre.gov/system/files/2026-08/52_candidateroster0825.pdf)

## The rest of the ballot

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