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

[Rick Hasen]

That's my district and I can attest that the first round was extremely 
fierce with the teacher's union and the charter movement fighting over 
the top two Democratic candidates.
i have never been hit with so much mail or campaigning over another race.

On 6/14/2012 11:18 AM, Douglas Johnson wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Fellow
>
> Rose Institute of State and Local Government
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