Post by Logan on Jul 9, 2016 23:17:15 GMT -6
State finally wraps up primary vote count — a month after election day
The last vote in California’s 2016 primary has finally been counted, just over a month after the polls closed in the June 7 election.
Friday was the deadline for the state’s 58 counties to complete their vote counts and forward the totals to the secretary of state, who will certify and release the final results next week.
The numbers show that Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s 12 percentage-point lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on election night dropped to a still-comfortable seven points. In the race for U.S. Senate, Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez trailed Attorney General Kamala Harris by 21 percentage points instead of 24. And in San Francisco, independent Preston Picus nosed out Republican Bob Miller by 50 votes for the right to get thrashed in November by Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who collected 78 percent of the primary votes.
But the 2016 primary was anything but a controversy-free election.
There were plenty of conspiracy theories about how the snail’s-pace tally — along with the more than 2.5 million votes left uncounted after election day — was part of a plot by Clinton and the Democratic establishment to steal the election, and the presidency, from the more progressive Sanders.
Read more: www.sfgate.com/politics/article/State-finally-wraps-up-primary-vote-count-a-8349006.php
The last vote in California’s 2016 primary has finally been counted, just over a month after the polls closed in the June 7 election.
Friday was the deadline for the state’s 58 counties to complete their vote counts and forward the totals to the secretary of state, who will certify and release the final results next week.
The numbers show that Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s 12 percentage-point lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on election night dropped to a still-comfortable seven points. In the race for U.S. Senate, Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez trailed Attorney General Kamala Harris by 21 percentage points instead of 24. And in San Francisco, independent Preston Picus nosed out Republican Bob Miller by 50 votes for the right to get thrashed in November by Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who collected 78 percent of the primary votes.
But the 2016 primary was anything but a controversy-free election.
There were plenty of conspiracy theories about how the snail’s-pace tally — along with the more than 2.5 million votes left uncounted after election day — was part of a plot by Clinton and the Democratic establishment to steal the election, and the presidency, from the more progressive Sanders.
Read more: www.sfgate.com/politics/article/State-finally-wraps-up-primary-vote-count-a-8349006.php