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More than 700 ballots remain to be counted, though recall election results Tuesday night showed a clear majority of voters chose to keep Westminster City Council members Kimberly Ho, Charlie Nguyen, and Mayor Tri Ta in office.
Two recall movements in two neighboring cities are on the move against elected officials this year – one in Westminster that’s guaranteed a recall election and another in Santa Ana that has gathered the signatures but won’t find out until next month from county officials whether it can move forward.
If the recall petitions hold up to city and county officials’ review, voters will decide the fates of the City Council’s majority faction in a recall election.
Garden Grove’s Vietnamese Americans have made significant inroads on the City Council, but the city hasn’t yet elected its first Latino despite Latinos making up 37 percent of the population. Is this something a Voting Rights Act lawsuit can fix, or does the issue run deeper?
Rebublican assemblyman was hoping that absentee and provisional
ballots would close a 10-point gap in his race with Democratic
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
This week, several political campaigns will turn out the lights
as the Registrar of Voters gets closer to finalizing ballot
tallies.
The Orange County Registrar of Voters still needs to count as
many as 258,196 votes, enough to sway the outcome in a tight
race.
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has a formidable lead in the 47th
District, but her Republican opponent is avoiding any concession
talk until absentee and provisional ballots are counted.
Democratic Congresswoman holds a commanding lead over Republican
challenger Van Tran.
The Democratic incumbent leads with 51 percent of the vote in
the nationally watched congressional race.