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Voters Electing A New Supervisor Today

District II voters will select a replacement at the polls today for the late Supervisor Gayle Uilkema.

Voters in central Contra Costa County will choose from three candidates today to pick a replacement for the late Supervisor Gayle Uilkema.

Danville Mayor Candace Andersen, Contra Costa Community College District trustee Tomi Van de Brooke and solar energy professor Sean White are on the ballot.

Uilkema, who died last month, had already announced she wouldn't seek re-election after 16 years on the Board of Supervisors.

The newly reconfigured District II includes Lamorinda, the San Ramon Valley and parts of Walnut Creek.

All three candidates wrote columns in Patch last week, expressing why they think voters should select them to represent District II.

You can read Candace Andersen's column

You can read Tomi Van de Brooke's column

You can read Sean White's column

Patch will have up-to-the-minute election results Tuesday night after the polls have closed.

c5 June 5, 2012 at 10:47 am
get out and vote everyone...i know this isn't a really interesting ballot, but we only get so many chances to exercise our rights in the ballot box so don't take it for granted.
David Holden June 5, 2012 at 10:52 am
Isn't there a new rule about elections? Something like: If one of them gets 50%+1 then he or she wins. But, if nobody gets 50% then the top two face a run-off in November? Didn't something like this pass recently? Anybody know?
Chris Nicholson June 5, 2012 at 11:00 am
I think you're thinking of Prop 14, which covers primary elections (this is a final election). Prop 14 has open primaries where the top two vote getters compete in the general election run-off, even if they are from the same party.
Steve Cohn June 5, 2012 at 11:25 am
Actually, this is sort of a hybrid. As H.Paul says below, if someone get 50%+ they are the winner but don't get seated until Jan. Someone (the governor?) can appoint them until then. If Sean gets enough votes preventing Candace or Tomi from winning outright then the big spenders get to spend even more for the next 5 months. Purchased democracy at its finest.
Chris Nicholson June 5, 2012 at 11:30 am
I stand corrected. Thanks guys.
Mark Meuser June 5, 2012 at 11:44 am
David, in the supervisor race, because it is not a partisan race, if one of the candidates receive 50% +1, then there is no run-off in November. However, in races such as mine for state senate, because it is a partisan race, the top two are on the November ballot regardless of whether or not someone receives 50%+1.
The supervisor race should be the only race on your ballot today that 50%+1 will result in no run-off. Today the good folks of Lamorinda are also deciding who the top two candidates will be in the U.S. Senate race (only 24 names to choose from), and who the top two candidates will be for U.S. Congress (4 names to choose from). The top two will be on the November ballot regardless of whether any of the candidates received 50%+1. As for your state senate race and your state assembly race, in both cases, there are only two names on the ballot and as such, both candidates will be on your November ballot even though someone will most likely receive 50%+1 of the vote.
bryan June 5, 2012 at 01:16 pm
Get out and vote. Let the people decide.
BV June 5, 2012 at 01:30 pm
The only problem with telling people to vote is that none of these 3 candidates look like they will be worth voting for! A no vote can be a protest vote!
c5 June 5, 2012 at 02:36 pm
there are no 'no' votes, only votes for an individual candidate. so not voting is further empowering those who vote and un-empowering (this that a word?) those who do not...so best to vote for the best of the lot imo.
BV June 5, 2012 at 02:59 pm
I have no intention in voting for someone I do not agree with ...it just further stokes their ego!
Chris Nicholson June 5, 2012 at 05:09 pm
If you are morally opposed to voting for the "least bad" candidate, then you must not vote very often.....
Seriously, if you know enough about the candidates to NOT like any of them, you already know more than 50% of citizens, so you owe it to them and yourself to vote for the least bad person. As C5 said, vacancy is not an option.
Chris Nicholson June 6, 2012 at 12:19 am
Looks like the absentee ballots are online:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Contra_Costa/39292/84288/en/summary.html# Candace leading 61% v. 27%
Jose June 6, 2012 at 01:04 am
This too, shall pass.

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