With races so close and more than 240,000 ballots left to count in Santa Clara County, they may take days to resolve.
“In particularly tight races, two, three, four, five points even with half the votes or close to it out, you better believe it, there could be changes,” said NBC Bay Area Political Analyst Larry Gerston.
As of Wednesday night, a mayoral race for the city of Santa Clara showed a one-point difference between incumbent Lisa Gillmor and Anthony Becker.“We don’t know what’s going to happen over the next few days because there is just so many votes, and again we don’t know from where, a candidate can choose to pay for a recount but it's quite expensive,” he said.
Santa Clara County’s Registrar of Voters said automatic recounts only happen when the margin of victory is less than a quarter of 1%. “It's rare because there are a lot of people that vote and 25 or .0025 is a really tight race, it doesn't happen very often, but when it does were prepared for it,” said Evelyn Mendez, Public and Legislative Affairs Manager for the Registrar of Voters.Otherwise, it's done manually and can take anywhere from two to four weeks.
“They’ll pull the ballots for that contest and there’s four people that sit together. They don’t tell them what the results are. So we say 'so, precinct 10.' Rwo people will count literally say 'one for you, one for this person' and someone will literally tally it, it has to match the other person and the results,” Mendez said.But experts told NBC Bay Area Wednesday that they really don’t expect to see a recount this election.
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