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Evan Low
Joe Simitian
In California’s District 16 congressional race, Evan Low is now leading Joe Simitian by one vote for the second-place position as of April 2.
Low holds 30,249 votes and Simitian is at 30,248 — per voting results released at 4 p.m. in San Mateo County and at 5:23 p.m. in Santa Clara County. Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is sitting in a comfortable first place by around 8,000 votes.
April 2 marked the last day that challenged ballots — which have been deemed ineligible for some reason, typically an issue with a voter’s signature — can be “cured,” allowing voters the opportunity to re-legitimize their vote.
Santa Clara County has 550 challenged ballots remaining and San Mateo County has 405 remaining as of April 2, elections officials said. San Mateo County will be releasing another update on election numbers before 4:30 p.m. April 3, Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer, said.
If a campaign chooses to request a recount, it will have five days after April 4 — when elections results are officially certified by counties — to do so. Election results will be officially certified by the state April 12.
To request a machine recount in Santa Clara County would cost $16,840 a day and take approximately five days, totaling $84,200, Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters spokesperson Michael Borja said. A manual recount, with ballots tallied by hand, would cost $32,000 a day and take approximately 10 days, totaling $320,000.
In San Mateo County, setup for counting one precinct costs $3,250 and $1,100 to set up for batch counting, regardless of if the count selected is manual or by machine, Irizarry said.
To use all seven machine scanners costs $4,550 per day. A manual count costs $2,600 per one “precinct board” — a group of elections official counters assigned to count one precinct — and $1,050 per additional board, making the cost of a recount highly dependent on selected scope and size, Irizarry said.
“Sometimes it takes a while for democracy to work. This is one of those times. That means counting and verifying all of the votes. Every single one of them,” Simitian said in a statement. “The election offices in both counties have been verifying voter signatures over the past few weeks to make sure that every vote that can be counted, will be counted. Right now we’re waiting to hear from them.”
Low did not respond to request for comment.
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Mike Caggiano said:
Hey Jon, so you have a pretty sharp sense of humor. I really get a kick out of it.
Thanks, and well said.
Mike Caggiano said:
Irv, really great letter explaining the realities in excellent and concise terms. Perfect! Bravo
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