Mar. 13 Election Update: Measure A Sales Tax Extension Continues To Fail Passage And Gap Widens To 704 Votes; Margin of 0.8% Of 88,536 LB Votes Counted Thus Far

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8th Dist. Reform Ticket Ovalle Narrows Gap To 183 Votes With Incumbent Councilman Austin Who Remains In Second Place For Runoff Behind Organized Labor-Backed Thrash-Ntuk

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(March 13, 2020, 6:40 p.m.) -- A March 13 updated vote tally from the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder shows the Measure A sales tax extension continues to fail passage. While still too close to call with an imprecise number of LB ballots remaining to be counted, its margin of failure is now 704 votes (0.8% of 88,536 votes counted thus far)

Roughly 219,500 ballots remain to be counted countywide out of roughly 1.92 million ballots countywide counted thus far.

NO 44,620 50.40%
YES 43,916 49.60%
If Measure A ultimately fails, it will be a major political defeat for Mayor Garcia's messaging and monied campaign (funded mainly by LB's police and firefighter unions) against virtually no organized or competitively funded opposition campaign.
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Reform ticket candidate Juan Ovalle, while still in third place, has reduced the gap with second place incumbent Mayor-backed Al Austin; 183 votes now separate them (a margin of 2.16% of votes counted thus far.) First place candidate Tunua Thrash-Ntuk is outpolling Austin by margin of 5.35% of ballots counted thus far. The top two finishers proceed to November runoff

THRASH-NTUK 3,190 37.62%
AL AUSTIN II 2,736 32.27%
JUAN ERICK OVALLE 2,553 30.11%

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An L.A. County Registrar-Recorder release says 1,922.272 ballots Countywide have been counted with an estimated 219,500 remaining to be counted. These include:

50,000 Conditional Voter Registration

5,500 Provisional ballots

150,000 Vote by mail ballots (incl. vote by mail ballots received from Vote Centers, Drop Boxes and USPS as of March 6)

14,000 "Misc. ballots" (incl. "damaged/withheld ballots")

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In the 2nd Council district, Reform Ticket candidate Robert Fox will face Mayor Garcia/LB police/firefighter union supported Cindy Allen. In the 6th district (with no Reform Ticket candidate), organized labor backed Suely Saro (who finished first in March) will face incumbent Vice Mayor (Mayor/LB police-firefighter union supported) Dee Andrews.

In LB School Board races, Tonia Reyes Uranga and Erik Miller are headed to a November runoff in Central/WLB School District 2. Doug Otto was elected outright with over 50% of the vote in ELB/SE LB School district 4

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