Update: Alvarez is still ahead of McLoughlin, by 117 votes, at 9:30 pm on Saturday night, Nov. 10.
Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez is still leading as ballots continue to be counted, in her race against Mark McLoughlin and David Chapel, for Area 5 on the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Board of Trustees.
Currently Alvarez has 4,429 votes versus 4,362 for McLoughlin and 3,198 for Chapel. There are a lot of votes left to count, according to the OC Voter Registrar:
- Vote-by-Mails left: 2,851
- Provisionals left: 1,814
- Total left: 4,665
This race could still go to McLoughlin but the good news for Alvarez is that Chapel is continuing to split the white vote, and the later votes cast should be from Latino voters.
McLoughlin was part of the failed Team Benavides. If he loses that will be a big reason for his loss.
That is still my favorite picture of Alvarez. It reminds me of the Pieta.
I was looking for pictures of the Alvarez Pieta, and instead I found nude videos of Daveeeed.
In about a half hour the ROV will post the 12 run and we will see if the 67 vote lead increases or decreases.
So close I have biten off all of my nails.
the count shows Alveraz increased her lead by 1 vote to 68. still to close with 4623 left to count.
up by 117 with 3503 left to count
Doubled her lead, right?
Is it true that Union Boss Nick Beradino’s son is in charge of the election computers? How might that effect the outcome?
251 increased lead again
753 vbm left to count
1814 pro’s to count and very few of these will count as quite a few voters (students) thought they could cross boundaries and vote for measure Q. It doesn’t work that way. Any race you vote on that is not in your precinct is stripped away before counting.
Chapel was the only one who actively went after the student vote so it stands to reason he might lose a few of the provisional votes.
Alvarez appears to be hanging on…