The president of the Oakland NAACP says the chapter is receiving contributions to pay for an election recount, but declined to say how much.
OAKLAND — Supporters of Loren Taylor, the mayoral candidate who fell just short of the city’s top office in last month’s election, have not quieted down in questioning Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao’s victory by fewer than 700 ranked choice votes.
Rumblings have swirled around a possible recount effort after the registrar last month took nearly two weeks to finish processing all the ballots, leaving Thao with about an 0.55% ranked choice vote margin over Taylor when all the dust had settled.
Oakland NAACP President George Holland Sr. said Wednesday the chapter is receiving contributions from members of the community to pay for a recount. But he declined to estimate how much money has come in, adding that the chapter itself won’t put up any money for the process. Other jurisdictions will typically hold two elections — a primary that whittles a crowded field to two frontrunner candidates and then a runoff between them. The ranked choice format creates an instant runoff where voters list their preferences outright, saving the city time and money.
The ranked choice format does not require voters to list more than one preferred candidate. But last month’s mayoral race saw more than 3,000 disqualified “overvotes,” or ballots that weren’t counted because voters listed more than one candidate in the same choice column rather than placing their second, third, fourth or fifth choices in the appropriate columns.
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