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.
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.
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.
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Contra_Costa/39292/84288/en/summary.html# Candace leading 61% v. 27%