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Lawyers for California’s Secretary of State’s office ruled last week that Padilla could not recoup his costs even if Low finished ahead of Simitian because Low would already be heading to the general election by virtue of the tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of lawyers with the Santa Clara County Government Attorneys Association filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission last week, arguing that recount backers coordinated their efforts with Liccardo without disclosing their activities as in-kind contributions to Liccardo’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount committee has until July 15 to report its donors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/EMG_chapt_15_august_26_2010.pdf\">per federal guidelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo’s campaign has denied any involvement in the recount. On Tuesday, Liccardo \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/sam-liccardo-its-the-counting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in an op-ed in San Jose Inside, \u003c/a>“Neither I nor anyone in my campaign has communicated with Padilla or his donors about the recount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that Padilla is a supporter of mine is not remarkable; every independent expenditure committee in history has been created by a candidate’s supporter,” Liccardo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo commended election officials on Wednesday for working to ensure an accurate result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982871/evan-low-joe-simitian-recount-16th-congressional-district\"> began the process\u003c/a> of recounting ballots earlier this month, which involved running them back through counting machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s lawyers also challenged a number of ballots that were left out of the initial count after being deemed ineligible by election officials. 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"content": "\u003cp>A closely watched congressional race in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties has already seen weeks of deadlocked ballot counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981809/in-extraordinary-tie-evan-low-and-joe-simitian-both-advance-in-race-for-silicon-valley-house-seat\">there was a historically tied finish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, this race is taking yet another wild twist: On Monday, election officials started the process of recounting ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new count could break the precarious tie for second place between Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who finished behind fellow Democrat Sam Liccardo, the former mayor of San José, in the March primary. If \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982090/unpredictable-race-for-silicon-valley-congressional-seat-after-unprecedented-tie\">the results stand, all three candidates will advance\u003c/a> to the general election in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981809 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-Low-Simitian-MD-02-1020x680.jpg']The recount has been accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">political mystery, clashes between the campaigns and their allies\u003c/a> and a whole host of procedural questions. Here’s what we know about how the recount in the 16th Congressional District will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountrequest\">Who can request an electoral recount?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountcost\">How much will this recount cost and where is the money coming from?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why is this recount happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-recounts\">roughly two dozen states\u003c/a>, California does not have a law triggering recounts in close races for federal or state offices. Santa Clara has an automatic recount law on the books, but it only applies to local races, not a federal contest like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, recounts are triggered by a request from a voter in the district. Two voters, Dan Stegink and Jonathan Padilla, asked for this recount — but Stegink ultimately withdrew his request, and only Padilla put down the necessary deposit to fund the process (more on that later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla previously worked for Liccardo and has supported his campaign, leading to criticisms that his pursuit of a new count was motivated by a desire to narrow the field of candidates to advantage Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three campaigns said they have no involvement in the recount requests. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">Read more about the backstory of this recount.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountrequest\">\u003c/a>Under what circumstances is a recount allowed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any voter can request a recount — for any office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For statewide offices (such as attorney general or insurance commissioner) or statewide ballot measures where the margin between candidates is within 1,000 votes or 0.00015%, the governor can order a state-funded, manual recount of every vote cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How long will the recount take? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recount will only cover votes in the 16th Congressional District, which includes Palo Alto, Mountain View, and parts of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount could be completed within five days, according to Michael Borja, associate communications officer at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first action item would be to retrieve the ballots from storage and retrieve the complete precincts that are requested,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11982501 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240303-Liccardo-HQ-KSM-1_qut-1020x680.jpg']On Monday, Santa Clara County election workers began retrieving the ballots for precincts within the 16th Congressional District. That initial processing will take at least a day, with the counting likely beginning in earnest on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount process was set to begin parallel in San Mateo County, but as of Monday morning, election officials said no payment had been received.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountcost\">\u003c/a>How much will the recount cost?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials estimate a daily cost of $16,800 for this machine recount, leading to an estimated total cost of $84,200 to count every relevant ballot in the county. In San Mateo, officials pegged the cost of a machine review at $4,550 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his request, Padilla also requested a review of disqualified ballots, envelopes and other materials and system logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those will incur additional cost on top of the costs for the [new] tally,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is paying for the recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla will have to place a daily deposit to cover the costs of that day’s recount work. If he fails to make the daily payment, Padilla’s recount request will end — although he has suggested that he is, in fact, ready to make the daily payments necessary to carry out a recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can the recount requesters get their money back? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe. A recount requester must specify which candidate they are requesting the recount on behalf of. If the results change in that candidate’s favor, the county assumes the cost of the recount and refunds the requester. That means local taxpayers \u003cem>could \u003c/em>be on the hook, depending on the recount’s result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla listed Evan Low as the candidate he is requesting a recount on behalf of, although Low’s campaign was not involved and opposed the request. If Low moves ahead of Simitian after a recount, Padilla could get his money back, according to election officials in both counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Low dispute that reading of the state’s law on recount refunds, however. In a Friday letter to the county registrars, they argued that Low is already in the general election as a result of the tied vote. Therefore, Padilla should not be refunded if Low moves ahead of Simitian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do the requesters have to make any disclosures about the source of their funds? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977769 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020_qut-1020x680.jpg']Not during the daily recount deposit process. Any involvement from outside political groups, such as super PACs operating separately from the campaigns, could be revealed in campaign finance disclosures filed in the coming weeks and months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once the recount begins, are requesters required to pay for the entire count? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. Requesters can choose to stop paying at any point, which could end the count. However, this would void any change in results revealed during the recount up to that point. For a change in the final result to be certified, every precinct in the district needs to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can stop, but the process stops at that time, and there are no changes,” said Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the process for actually counting the ballots? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The machine recount process is very similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841201/you-mailed-your-ballot-where-does-it-go-and-when-is-it-counted\">how ballots are initially counted after polls close.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these tabulation machines in a secure facility,” Borja said. “After retrieving the ballots, the ballots will be put into the machines for counting … and the machines are pretty much scanning the ballots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots that the machine has trouble counting will get moved to an adjudication process. These can include ballots in which the voter used red ink or marked their choice in a way the machine could not decipher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the adjudication process, there are two people looking at the same ballot on two screens,” Borja said. “They have to both agree on what the voter’s intent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election workers reviewing the ballots can ask for help from a supervisor, and observers can also challenge an initial determination and ask for an appeal to a more senior elections official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requester, in this case Padilla, determines the order of the ballots counted on each day — meaning that they can ask election officials to start with a precinct in Campbell, followed by one in Los Gatos, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happens to ballots that were not counted in the initial tally, such as those with signature issues? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is perhaps the biggest outstanding question heading into the recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every election, vote counters flag ballots that have issues preventing them from being processed. Typically, those are ballots in which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974391/i-made-a-mistake-on-my-ballot-how-to-fix-presidential-primary-california-election-2024#mistake\">voter forgot to sign their envelope or wrote a signature that doesn’t match the signature\u003c/a> on the voter’s file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials contacted voters with these issues in hopes of “curing” their ballots, but the deadline for voters to respond and remedy the issues was back on April 2. In Santa Clara County, 115 ballots were left uncured by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, those ballots are ineligible to be tallied in the recount. But Padilla is asking for a review of “unvoted ballots” and “all materials used to verify voter signatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that Padilla or his attorneys could challenge the decision to place a ballot in the “cure” pile — a move that could lead to additional review by the top elections officer or even legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we’ve seen in the past, it’s not unheard of for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977769/feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results\">local or state elections to ultimately be decided by a relatively small number of votes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can the public follow along with the outcome of this recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irizarry said San Mateo officials will publicize the vote tally at the end of every day of recounting ballots. In Santa Clara, however, Borja said the recount results would only be made public at the end of the entire process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, true clarity on one of the wildest primary elections in California history may not happen until later in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The recount has been accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">political mystery, clashes between the campaigns and their allies\u003c/a> and a whole host of procedural questions. Here’s what we know about how the recount in the 16th Congressional District will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountrequest\">Who can request an electoral recount?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountcost\">How much will this recount cost and where is the money coming from?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why is this recount happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-recounts\">roughly two dozen states\u003c/a>, California does not have a law triggering recounts in close races for federal or state offices. Santa Clara has an automatic recount law on the books, but it only applies to local races, not a federal contest like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, recounts are triggered by a request from a voter in the district. Two voters, Dan Stegink and Jonathan Padilla, asked for this recount — but Stegink ultimately withdrew his request, and only Padilla put down the necessary deposit to fund the process (more on that later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla previously worked for Liccardo and has supported his campaign, leading to criticisms that his pursuit of a new count was motivated by a desire to narrow the field of candidates to advantage Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three campaigns said they have no involvement in the recount requests. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">Read more about the backstory of this recount.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountrequest\">\u003c/a>Under what circumstances is a recount allowed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any voter can request a recount — for any office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For statewide offices (such as attorney general or insurance commissioner) or statewide ballot measures where the margin between candidates is within 1,000 votes or 0.00015%, the governor can order a state-funded, manual recount of every vote cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How long will the recount take? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recount will only cover votes in the 16th Congressional District, which includes Palo Alto, Mountain View, and parts of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount could be completed within five days, according to Michael Borja, associate communications officer at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first action item would be to retrieve the ballots from storage and retrieve the complete precincts that are requested,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not during the daily recount deposit process. Any involvement from outside political groups, such as super PACs operating separately from the campaigns, could be revealed in campaign finance disclosures filed in the coming weeks and months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once the recount begins, are requesters required to pay for the entire count? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. Requesters can choose to stop paying at any point, which could end the count. However, this would void any change in results revealed during the recount up to that point. For a change in the final result to be certified, every precinct in the district needs to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can stop, but the process stops at that time, and there are no changes,” said Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the process for actually counting the ballots? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The machine recount process is very similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841201/you-mailed-your-ballot-where-does-it-go-and-when-is-it-counted\">how ballots are initially counted after polls close.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these tabulation machines in a secure facility,” Borja said. “After retrieving the ballots, the ballots will be put into the machines for counting … and the machines are pretty much scanning the ballots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots that the machine has trouble counting will get moved to an adjudication process. These can include ballots in which the voter used red ink or marked their choice in a way the machine could not decipher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the adjudication process, there are two people looking at the same ballot on two screens,” Borja said. “They have to both agree on what the voter’s intent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election workers reviewing the ballots can ask for help from a supervisor, and observers can also challenge an initial determination and ask for an appeal to a more senior elections official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requester, in this case Padilla, determines the order of the ballots counted on each day — meaning that they can ask election officials to start with a precinct in Campbell, followed by one in Los Gatos, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happens to ballots that were not counted in the initial tally, such as those with signature issues? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is perhaps the biggest outstanding question heading into the recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every election, vote counters flag ballots that have issues preventing them from being processed. Typically, those are ballots in which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974391/i-made-a-mistake-on-my-ballot-how-to-fix-presidential-primary-california-election-2024#mistake\">voter forgot to sign their envelope or wrote a signature that doesn’t match the signature\u003c/a> on the voter’s file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials contacted voters with these issues in hopes of “curing” their ballots, but the deadline for voters to respond and remedy the issues was back on April 2. In Santa Clara County, 115 ballots were left uncured by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, those ballots are ineligible to be tallied in the recount. But Padilla is asking for a review of “unvoted ballots” and “all materials used to verify voter signatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that Padilla or his attorneys could challenge the decision to place a ballot in the “cure” pile — a move that could lead to additional review by the top elections officer or even legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we’ve seen in the past, it’s not unheard of for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977769/feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results\">local or state elections to ultimately be decided by a relatively small number of votes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can the public follow along with the outcome of this recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irizarry said San Mateo officials will publicize the vote tally at the end of every day of recounting ballots. In Santa Clara, however, Borja said the recount results would only be made public at the end of the entire process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, true clarity on one of the wildest primary elections in California history may not happen until later in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They’ll also face former San José Mayor Sam Liccardo, who finished with 21.1% of the vote atop an 11-candidate field in the 16th congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981809 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-Low-Simitian-MD-02-1020x680.jpg']“This is so Silicon Valley,” Low told KQED. “We don’t want to just have two choices, we want three choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result has scrambled the candidates’ general election plans and created an unpredictable path toward November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a whole new race,” said Simitian, in an interview. “The three of us in the runoff got slightly more than half the votes that were cast in the [primary] election. 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Three Democrats currently (or recently) have represented considerable swaths of the district in elected office and have the fundraising and political networks to amplify their message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Liccardo\u003c/strong>: Nearly 36% of the registered voters in the 16th congressional district live in San José and will likely be familiar with Liccardo from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936268/were-finally-paving-our-streets-exit-interview-with-san-jose-mayor-sam-liccardo\">his recent tenure as the city’s mayor\u003c/a>. During his two terms from 2015 to 2023, Liccardo helped engineer a fiscal turnaround in San José — lifting the city from a pension crisis to a budget surplus. Liccardo could face criticism for rising homelessness during his time in office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936268/were-finally-paving-our-streets-exit-interview-with-san-jose-mayor-sam-liccardo\">a trend that Liccardo took responsibility for \u003c/a>toward the end of his tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evan Low\u003c/strong>: Low \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957927/evan-low-on-barriers-to-democracy-and-californias-travel-ban\">is looking to make history (again)\u003c/a> as the Bay Area’s first openly LGBTQ member of Congress. When he was elected mayor of Campbell in 2009, Low was the youngest Asian and openly gay mayor in America. Since 2014, he’s represented parts of this congressional district in the state Assembly and has won plaudits from progressives for his pro-LGBTQ legislation, and he recently scored an endorsement from Rep. Ro Khanna. Unlike other progressives, Low has maintained close ties to law enforcement — touting his brother’s service in the San José Police Department and voting in 2018 against a closely-watched bill to open up police misconduct records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Simitian:\u003c/strong> A Santa Clara County supervisor and former state legislator, Simitian seemed the best prepared for Eshoo’s abrupt retirement announcement. Simitian has been raising money to run for the seat since 2009, stockpiling $681,003 in his campaign account. Simitian, who is 70, enters the race with the most experience on issues like housing and transportation but will undoubtedly face questions about his age and whether Bay Area voters are ready to send another septuagenarian to Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The Sleepers \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These three Democrats bring unique backgrounds and experiences into the race that could capture the attention of voters. In a crowded field, it may take less than 20% of the vote to advance to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Dixon:\u003c/strong> Dixon turned heads with an AI-assisted campaign launch video that offered a computer-generated tour through his service in the Marines and later in the State Department during the Obama administration. After returning home to the Bay Area, Dixon started a national security software company. He’s also the co-founder of the nonprofit With Honor Action, which works to elect more veterans to Congress across party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rishi Kumar: \u003c/strong>Eshoo defeated Kumar in the last two general elections, but last year, Kumar grabbed 42% of the vote, a sizable number for an underfunded candidate challenging a longtime incumbent. Kumar is a former member of the Saratoga City Council and a Democratic Party activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julie Lythcott-Haims: \u003c/strong>As the only woman in the race, Lythcott-Haims will stress the importance of maintaining female leadership in the district. A former Stanford dean, Lythcott-Haims serves on the Palo Alto City Council and is also a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestselling author of \u003cem>How to Raise an Adult\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The Republicans \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In what feels like a political lifetime ago, Republican Tom Campbell represented much of the current 16th District in Congress between 1989 and 2001. A Republican has little chance of winning this seat in 2024, but if GOP voters, who represent 16% of voters in the district, consolidate behind a single candidate, it’s possible that a Republican can sneak into the general election. Having two Republicans in the field makes even getting out of the primary a challenge for the GOP, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Ohtaki:\u003c/strong> Ohtaki served on the Menlo Park City Council from 2010 until 2018 and has made runs for state Assembly and this House seat in the past. 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It notes the promotion of former sheriff’s Captain Amy Le three months after she was present at the Hogan incident. She was also president of the correctional officers union at the time, which raised over $300,000 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703698/incumbent-santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith-takes-big-lead-in-early-returns\">Smith’s 2018 reelection campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Joe Simitian criticized a lack of transparency in that and other cases, calling for “a fuller understanding of what is and isn’t happening, what consequences there have or have not been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the sheriff’s office has stonewalled the county’s relatively new oversight office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Otto Lee, Santa Clara County Supervisor\"]‘Change is long overdue. The issue is over the lack of oversight, accountability and transparency in our sheriff’s office and our county jail.’[/pullquote]“The sheriff has repeatedly declined, over the course of more than a year now, to enter into an information sharing agreement with our Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring,” Simitian said. “I just don’t see that we’ve been left with any other choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors directed the oversight office to prepare reports, video and audio files from the Hogan case for public release by Sept. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change is long overdue. 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