City Council Member sam liccardo has a lead of about 2 right now over santa clara supervisor dave cortese. That small gap has been pretty steady since the earliest results were released last night. But with a lot of provisional ballots still to be county, the race is too close to call. The winner will replace chuck reed who couldnt run again because of term limits. Voters in two bay area cities decided to raise the minimum wage. In San Francisco, they approved proposition j, it passed by a 7723 margin. It needed a simple majority to pass. The minimum wage in San Francisco will gradually increase to 15 an hour by 2018. Its currently 10. 74. It will go up to 11. 05 on january 1. A similar ballot measure in oakland got even wider support. 81 of voters approved measure ff. That will raise oaklands minimum wage from 9 to 12. 25 starting in march. The most expensive statewide race was for superintendent of public instruction. Both candidates are democrats. And they spent 30 million on the ca
Registrars office where they will be counting votes today. This is a crowded field. Were talking about 15 candidates running for oakland mayor. Five have separated from the pack. Jean quan looks to fend off Current City Council members libby schaaf and rebecca kaplan. Professor joe tuman and businessman bryan parker. A recent poll found any one of the five frontrunners could win thanks to the citys rank Choice Voting system. That system allows voters to select up to three candidates in order of preference when marking ballots. Its meant to eliminate the need for a separate runoff but it takes the registrar a lot of time to count the extra votes. For a final tally its going to take into the following week. Reporter the ballots in the election were already coming into the Registrars Office yesterday where they were being sorted and test run for what is likely going to be a very long complicated count. Well, hopefully people will get out and vote but it sounds like voter turnout will be l
Living in my city. We need to go after violent crime. Reporter it was the final showdown between the top five contenders in tuesdays oakland mayoral race. And they wasted no time in bringing it on or taking each other on for that matter. Libby said would you hire a doctor who didnt know how to operate . My question to you is, would you continue to hire a doctor to do surgery when they failed in the past . I really am the only person up here who has worked in every neighborhood in this city. Reporter but even as the candidates worked the room, the ballots in the election were already coming in at the Registrars Office where they were being sorted and test run for what will likely be a very long and complicated count. For a final tally, its probably going to take into the following week. Reporter the reason for the delay is rank Choice Voting which allows every voter to make three picks, tabulating all those extra votes taking extra time. In fact, nearly as much time as it takes explaini
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