The unofficial results from last Tuesday's city election were ready by early Wednesday morning, but they didn't include several thousand vote-by-mail ballots that had arrived Monday and Tuesday to the City Clerk's Office or were turned in at the polls. Another 900 provisional ballots -- those turned in by voters who didn't go to their designated polling place -- remain to be counted as well and are expected to be finished by Thursday. Below is a chart released today by the City Clerk that shows how many vote-by-mail ballots there were and in which races.
As I see it, there are only two races that have the slightest chance of changing the outcome from Wednesday's results, not counting whatever the provisional ballots may contain. Based on the vote-by-mail ballots remaining, in the 7th District James Johnson could go above 50 percent of the votes and avoid a runoff with Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga only if he were to get almost all of the votes from those ballots. That's a tall order. In the 9th District, if the remaining ballots come close to reflecting the initial election results, Councilman-elect Steve Neal should be fine. Only if almost none of the remaining votes went to Neal, would his percentage get pushed below 50 percent, which would then force a runoff election likely between he and Councilman Val Lerch.
As I see it, there are only two races that have the slightest chance of changing the outcome from Wednesday's results, not counting whatever the provisional ballots may contain. Based on the vote-by-mail ballots remaining, in the 7th District James Johnson could go above 50 percent of the votes and avoid a runoff with Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga only if he were to get almost all of the votes from those ballots. That's a tall order. In the 9th District, if the remaining ballots come close to reflecting the initial election results, Councilman-elect Steve Neal should be fine. Only if almost none of the remaining votes went to Neal, would his percentage get pushed below 50 percent, which would then force a runoff election likely between he and Councilman Val Lerch.
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