Hannah-Beth Jackson,  Tony Strickland

Tony Strickland and Hannah-Beth Jackson in Tight Race for California State Senate

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Former California Assembly Members Tony Strickland and Hannah-Beth Jackson and candidates for California State Senate District 19

Wow!

The election yesterday settled NOTHING (Jackson leads by 108 votes with thousands yet to be counted) in the California State Senate District 19 which includes portions of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.

Timm Herdt of the Ventura County Star has the poop and the numbers.

  • Elections officials have processed and counted mail-in ballots that were delivered in the mail through last Friday. All ballots that were delivered via mail on Saturday, Monday and yesterday have not been counted. To these, add all the mail-in ballots that were dropped off at voting precincts yesterday. Finally, add all provisional ballots that were cast. These are the votes that will now determine the outcome.
  • Provisional ballots are cast by voters who showed up at the polls and, for some reason or another, weren’t on the rolls. Ventura County Clerk-Recorder Philip Schmit told me last night that there was an unusually high number of provisional ballots cast yesterday.
  • The tallying of the outstanding ballots won’t begin until tomorrow or Friday at the earliest, Schmit said. The process could take two weeks.
  • California law requires an automatic recount of 10 percent of the ballots in any contest in which the outcome is within half a percentage point. If the contest remains within that margin after the first 10 percent of ballots are recounted, then another 10 percent are recounted, and so on.

Ventura County is where Tony Strickland is strong and many GOP voters vote by mail.

Stay tuned but Flap thinks this race albeit tight today will ultimately go to Republican Tony Strickland.


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2 Comments

  • Wiseburn

    Flap,

    I think the outcome could depend out how strong late Democratic Voter Registration was in this district. If the Dims registered many new voters late in the cycle, they could be the provisional voters that show up at polls. This is balance by the late[r] arriving absentee ballots representing an older more conservative crowd.

    I moved last month [in LA County] and mailed my new registration on the last day. I was not on the rolls at my new polling location. Of Course, with Seattle’s Dean Logan at the helm in LA County, my expectations were not high that I would be on the roles.

    Here’s hoping for a successful outcome in the recount. Both for Strickland and McClintock.

    Steve