Santa Clara County Registrar Jesse Durazo certified the results of the Nov. 4 Election Tuesday. The action included the passage of Measure B to bring BART to San Jose.

"The election code requires that all jurisdictions certify election results within 28 days," County Counsel Ann Ravel said. "We have met that requirement."

Also on Tuesday, the Superior Court refused to grant a temporary restraining order to bar the certification of the election results. The court's ruling was in response to a petition for writ of mandate filed by a voter in Santa Clara County and Transportation Solutions Defense and Educational Fund.

The petition filed on Nov. 26 sought a temporary restraining order against the secretary of state and the registrar of voters to prevent the registrar from certifying the vote on Dec. 2, the statutory deadline to do so.

Superior Court Judge Peter Busch opined that the subject was moot, given the county's on-time certification of the election.

The Measure B one-eighth-cent BART tax met the two-thirds majority needed with 66.78 percent of the vote, rallying through vote-by-mail ballots after it appeared early-on to have lost.