The San Jose district 3 special elections remain too close to call, because the competition has become a question of which candidate will join Gabby Chavez during a June runoff.
After the statement of Thursday’s vote, Matthew Quevedo, the deputy chief of staff of the mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, and one of the favorites before the special elections, exceeded the candidate for black horses Anthony Tordillos, marking another twist and turning in the race.
While Chavez-Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, built an important advantage in the field, winning 30% of the votes, Quevedo received 22.18%, with two votes separating it and twisted for second place.
The field of special elections presented seven candidates in the running to replace the former member of the municipal council in disgrace Omar Torres, who resigned from his duties in November before not contesting this week to accusations of sexual abuse involving a minor.
The competition supplemented the pro TEM judge and the long -standing employee of the IBM, Irene Smith, the retired police officer Adam Duran, the retired family advisor Tyrone Wade and the seller of knives Phil Dolan.
The narrow nature of the race also guarantees that a runoff will occur on June 24 because no candidate has received more than 50% of the vote.
Although the San Jose Municipal Council has chosen to leave the residents of the District 3 to choose their next representative, he appointed Carl Salas at the end of January to serve as an temporary basis until a winner is emerged, which means that his mandate will now extend to the summer.
Chavez-Lopez has led the race since the first results from Tuesday evening to Thursday, regularly winning at least 29% of the votes in each drop drops.
“We are encouraged by the initial and grateful results to the District 3 residents for their support,” said Chavez-Lopez on Wednesday. “While we hope to go ahead, we know that each vote counts and that we are committed to ensuring that each ballot is counted. The campaign has always focused on the inhabitants of San Jose, and I am proud of the coalition that we built together. ”
Quevedo and Tordillos have now exchanged positions several times in the past few days. Quevedo kept an advantage of 159 votes Tuesday evening before Tordillos erases the deficit to lead a single vote on Wednesday evening.
An article on the Comté website estimated that 38 unprocessed voting bulletins stayed on Thursday morning. Friday, the results of the following elections should be published before 5 p.m.
The results of the final elections will only be known at least next week and there could be more twists and turns, because the registrar of the voters of the County of Santa Clara will continue to count the postal ballots until Tuesday as long as they were granted on April 8.
The narrow nature of the race could also lead to a recount, the county policy forcing an automatic examination for competitions with a margin of victory less than 0.25% or where this margin is less than 25 votes in total.
Although the race is still pending, the Tordillos campaign has remained enthusiastic about the results, noting how the support of the base has received their candidate and despite the way in which the political action committees supported by special interest groups and lobbyists have flooded the contributions race.
“We have to count each vote and there is even more to count,” said spokesman Kurt Frewing. “We have crushed the special interests and the expectations of experts and we are delighted with this process.”
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