The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has notified Mike Hutchinson, who finished third place in the District 4 Oakland Unified School Board race last month, that he may actually have won the election after all.
In a statement to ABC7 News, Tim Dupuis, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters explains, "There are jurisdictions outside of California that require to be handled the first way. That is why the configuration exists in the system.
Dugar says the error was caught after their partner organization ran the cast vote record, which is essentially a recount - a common practice Dugar says, which is often done after every election since it is public record. "It is up to us to make sure that we have the checks and balances in place to ensure that vote count is accurate. And in this instance we had the checks and balances. The cast record was released," says Dugar. "Again, it didn't make a difference in any race, with the exception of Oakland School Board District 4 race."
The Oakland Branch of NAACP missed the mid-November deadline to demand an initial recount. But given the error in the school board race, they are demanding a manual recount in all of the Oakland's elections, even though Oakland has been using ranked choice voting for over a decade.
The California Ranked Choice Voting Coalition is also calling for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters to conduct a manual recount of the Oakland mayoral race, at their own expense, "to restore trust in our local elections."Another issue for the county is how to re-certify the election in an election outcome that is unprecedented.
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