[EL] Extremely close State Legislative election in CA (4 votes)

[Douglas Johnson]

They're still counting ballots in Los Angeles County, but I thought it's worth highlighting for the list that in California's Assembly District 46 <http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/state-assembly/district/46/>  the number-two Democrat trails the Republican in their battle for 2nd place by 4 votes, a difference of 0.01% with 38,302 ballots counted.

 

As of 4pm June 13th the County had 131,177 ballots left to count <http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/june-primary/pdf/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf> , but it's unknown how many are in AD 46.

 

This is a safely Democratic district, so "victory" for the Republican means the virtually certain election of the number-one Democrat in November, while election of the number-two Democrat (who is an advocate for Charter schools) means an extremely competitive election in November.

 

A nice reminder that individual votes still matter, even in California's largest-in-the-nation state legislative districts.

 

- Doug

 

Douglas Johnson

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