This report has been updated with the latest ballot counts announced at 4:15pm April 21.
Anthony Tordillos widened his slim lead over Matthew Quevedo over the weekend, as the county Registrar of Voters continued processing the last remaining ballots in the Special Election for San Jose City Council District 3.
The two men are vying for the chance to compete against frontrunner Gabby Chavez-Lopez in a second special vote on June 24.
County election officials on April 18 confirmed details of an April 24 mandatory machine recount of the more than 9,100 ballots before announcing an opponent for Chavez-Lopez.
“We will most likely conduct an automatic recount for April 24, Council District 3 Special Election,” Michael Borja, Associate Communications Officer for the Registrar of Voters, had said in an email response to an inquiry from San Jose Inside.
“We will publish a notice of the automatic recount on April 18 and will begin on April 24,” Borja wrote. “The process will likely take one day. Certification of the election will be on April 28.”
With an estimated 17 ballots still unprocessed Monday evening, the margin between Tordillos and Quevedo will easily fall within the under-25-votes margin that triggers an automatic recount in Santa Clara County.
The latest vote count released at 4:15pm April 21 showed Chavez-Lopez with 2,711 votes, Tordillos with 2,006 votes and Quevedo trailing with 2,000 votes.
Chavez-Lopez is executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, Tordillos is chair of the city Planning Commission and Quevedo is deputy chief of staff for Mayor Matt Mahan.
The automatic recount rule applies only to local contests whose jurisdictions are wholly contained within the county. Federal and state contests are excluded.
Why are there votes still unprocessed over a week after the election?
No one can possibly have any trust in the outcome, even after recount. This is banana republic stuff. And seemingly by design.
Meanwhile, D3 residents have been without an elected councilmember for over six months, and the unelected stooge we’re stuck with studiously disregarded overwhelming constituent input on electronic billboards.
and this low life propaganda rag deletes comments critical of the corrupt ruling regime and the constructs it uses to maintain its power
weak men, angry women, corrupt journalists, bankrupt and futureless culture
all complicit will have earned their inevitable consequences
There’s virtually no difference between lopez and tordillos in terms of policy. And oddly enough, they both will vote the same way the former, disgraced council member voted. D3 once again will lack the leadership it needs.
The three right-of-center candidates: Quevedo, Duran, and Smith split the centrist and conservative vote.
Contested ballots pending voting signature confirmation are still outstanding.
Voting 101, Don.
No, it’s election fortification 101, Stockholm Resident
But keep internalizing your subjugation, you’re easier that way.
Don – the ballots remaining aren’t “unprocessed,” they’re challenged. It might be a mismatched or missing signature, that the Registrar is trying to cure. Think about it this way: if you voted for one of the candidates who’s clearly out of the running, you might not bother to cure your ballot. There’s nothing nefarious going on – it’s just part of the process.