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"content": "\u003cp>Leland Yee. Fiona Ma. Ed Jew. Carmen Chu. Katy Tang. Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, these six Asian American officials passed the torch to one another, representing San Francisco’s majority-Asian District 4 on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now for the first time in more than 20 years — and the first time since San Francisco began electing supervisors by district, rather than citywide — a non-Asian elected official will represent its electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Engardio is now supervisor-elect. The incumbent, Mar, conceded the race to Engardio on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Asian community and other communities of color, marginalized communities, it’s extremely important to have representatives that share their lived experience and have the depth of understanding not only of their shared concerns but their hopes and dreams,” Mar said in an interview, Friday. “It’s been a great honor for me to represent District 4, a majority-Asian district, these past four years, as someone who does share that deep connection and experience with working-class Asian American families in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Engardio also represents a number of firsts. He’s the first openly gay legislator to represent District 4, and he’s the first challenger to topple an incumbent elected San Francisco supervisor in a district election.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joel Engardio, SF supervisor for District 4\"]‘As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese. I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.’[/pullquote]But Mar’s defeat is a cause for concern among some Asian leaders in San Francisco — regardless of their politics. The usual tribalism in this city pits left-leaning progressives against centrist moderates. In that framework, Mar is seen as a progressive and Engardio a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Asian supervisors in San Francisco have leaned progressive, and often found backing among Asian communities. Yet a moderate-leaning faction of Chinese voters may have found their voice during recent recalls in the city — which could change the calculus of whom Asian voters send to office, no matter their ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, longtime Asian American leaders see a benefit to having Asian elected officials in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng, a former supervisor who won her office during citywide elections in the 1990s, noted that Mar’s defeat leaves only one Asian member of the Board of Supervisors — Connie Chan — \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">in a city that’s 37% Asian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also bemoaned the defeat of Ann Hsu, who would have brought an Asian immigrant’s perspective to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian community is hurting deeply with the defeat of Gordon Mar and Ann Hsu. This is the first time in decades, since my tenure on the [Board of Supervisors], there is one Asian elected on the [board] and Board of Education,” Teng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio says he wants to represent all of his constituents, and is committed to keeping an ear to the needs of Asian communities in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese,” Engardio said. “I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 4 encompasses the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/sfchip/SF_SupervisorialPrintableHealthProfiles/All_Districts_Profile_Data.pdf\">majority Asian (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%207.20.21-%20Sunset%20Chinese%20Cultural%20District.pdf\">nearly 40% Chinese (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to city data. Those neighborhoods — more than many dense, urban San Francisco locales — resemble a suburban utopia, with single-family homes and higher rates of car driving versus transit use. It’s a slice of the proverbial American dream for families who emigrated here and the generations that came after them. It’s also home to retail corridors with many Asian anchor businesses, like 25th Irving Market, a popular grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue suit holding a microphone and speaking with protesters behind him in support of gig workers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, representing District 4, seen here supporting the creation of a statewide union of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig workers on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese community is so interwoven into District 4 that Supervisor Mar helped create the Chinese Cultural District in the Sunset in 2021. During the initial planning process, some of the groups involved with its formation planned a march against anti-Asian hate on the Great Highway in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of the types of community activities that could be organized on a regular basis through the Sunset Chinese Cultural District,” Mar said at the time, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, politics lecturer at San Francisco State University, noted that Asian American leaders tend to be more in tune with the needs of that community. And those issues are many: Rising anti-Asian hate stemming from the pandemic, related but separate hate crimes and violence against Asians, and the health of Asian-owned businesses rank among needs Lee says are top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that is a concern for many people, including leaders in the Asian American community,” he said. “And it puts more pressure on the mayor to — through appointments, should openings come forward — to appoint Asian Americans to the Board of Supervisors so that we have a board that looks like the people of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of representation disproportionately affects the Chinese community in particular, which makes up a majority of District 4, said Malcolm Yeung, director of a prominent Chinatown nonprofit, the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Chinese community, this is a blow. You know, it’s decreasing our representation quite significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been an ongoing narrative since the recalls of District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school board candidates of an “emerging Chinese moderate vote,” Yeung said, a more vocal sector of the Chinese community that leans more centrist in their politics. Notably, with some exceptions, many previously elected San Francisco supervisors who are Asian were progressives: Eric Mar (brother to Gordon), Sandra Fewer, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and Connie Chan, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that newly activated electorate isn’t backing the usual Asian candidates in San Francisco, who have sometimes tacked toward progressive politics.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jane Kim, former San Francisco supervisor\"]‘What we’re also seeing is a greater diversity of perspectives that are now being represented by Chinese and Chinese American voters. Meaning they’re not just going to vote for a candidate because they are aligned from the same community, but they’re also going to be looking very carefully at their agenda as well.’[/pullquote]Notably, Gordon Mar spoke out against recalls, not because of the candidates necessarily, but on principle. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/These-were-the-neighborhoods-that-drove-the-17228393.php\">was out of step\u003c/a> with many voters in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, that emerging moderate vote is not going towards Chinese candidates as a whole. We saw that with Gordon,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar himself said there was more nuance in that argument: Conservative Chinese voters have always been around. They pushed back on legal cannabis dispensaries on the west side of the city, for instance, and have long organized around Lowell High School. But he acknowledged the recall may have bolstered their political views across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting may also have played a role in Mar’s loss, Yeung noted, as voting precincts added to District 4 \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/redistricting-update-task-force-sticks-with-unpopular-map-makes-some-tweaks-before-ending-at-3-a-m/\">during a redistricting process earlier this year\u003c/a> added in neighborhoods that ultimately voted to favor Engardio, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-8-2022-election-results-summary\">who won by just shy of 500 votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive former Supervisor Jane Kim, now the state director for the California Working Families Party, said she noticed this new emerging Chinese electorate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re also seeing is a greater diversity of perspectives that are now being represented by Chinese and Chinese American voters. Meaning they’re not just going to vote for a candidate because they are aligned from the same community, but they’re also going to be looking very carefully at their agenda as well,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Mar was always considered a “major pickup” for the progressive bloc of supervisors, she said, because District 4 had previously voted for more moderate-leaning candidates. In short, his first win was a bit of an outlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A map of voter precincts created by a citizen advocate shows that disparity: In 2018 Mar \u003ca href=\"https://electionmapsf.com/\">didn’t do well in Asian-majority precincts\u003c/a>. But he gained ground in this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar has long had to play a balancing act between his progressive politics and his constituents’ more moderate leanings. For instance, when a rising sentiment against crime came alongside a lock-them-up attitude, Mar introduced an unarmed ambassador program to patrol the neighborhood. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Leland Yee. Fiona Ma. Ed Jew. Carmen Chu. Katy Tang. Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, these six Asian American officials passed the torch to one another, representing San Francisco’s majority-Asian District 4 on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now for the first time in more than 20 years — and the first time since San Francisco began electing supervisors by district, rather than citywide — a non-Asian elected official will represent its electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Engardio is now supervisor-elect. The incumbent, Mar, conceded the race to Engardio on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Asian community and other communities of color, marginalized communities, it’s extremely important to have representatives that share their lived experience and have the depth of understanding not only of their shared concerns but their hopes and dreams,” Mar said in an interview, Friday. “It’s been a great honor for me to represent District 4, a majority-Asian district, these past four years, as someone who does share that deep connection and experience with working-class Asian American families in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Engardio also represents a number of firsts. He’s the first openly gay legislator to represent District 4, and he’s the first challenger to topple an incumbent elected San Francisco supervisor in a district election.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Mar’s defeat is a cause for concern among some Asian leaders in San Francisco — regardless of their politics. The usual tribalism in this city pits left-leaning progressives against centrist moderates. In that framework, Mar is seen as a progressive and Engardio a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Asian supervisors in San Francisco have leaned progressive, and often found backing among Asian communities. Yet a moderate-leaning faction of Chinese voters may have found their voice during recent recalls in the city — which could change the calculus of whom Asian voters send to office, no matter their ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, longtime Asian American leaders see a benefit to having Asian elected officials in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng, a former supervisor who won her office during citywide elections in the 1990s, noted that Mar’s defeat leaves only one Asian member of the Board of Supervisors — Connie Chan — \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">in a city that’s 37% Asian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also bemoaned the defeat of Ann Hsu, who would have brought an Asian immigrant’s perspective to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian community is hurting deeply with the defeat of Gordon Mar and Ann Hsu. This is the first time in decades, since my tenure on the [Board of Supervisors], there is one Asian elected on the [board] and Board of Education,” Teng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio says he wants to represent all of his constituents, and is committed to keeping an ear to the needs of Asian communities in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese,” Engardio said. “I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 4 encompasses the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/sfchip/SF_SupervisorialPrintableHealthProfiles/All_Districts_Profile_Data.pdf\">majority Asian (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%207.20.21-%20Sunset%20Chinese%20Cultural%20District.pdf\">nearly 40% Chinese (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to city data. Those neighborhoods — more than many dense, urban San Francisco locales — resemble a suburban utopia, with single-family homes and higher rates of car driving versus transit use. It’s a slice of the proverbial American dream for families who emigrated here and the generations that came after them. It’s also home to retail corridors with many Asian anchor businesses, like 25th Irving Market, a popular grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue suit holding a microphone and speaking with protesters behind him in support of gig workers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, representing District 4, seen here supporting the creation of a statewide union of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig workers on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese community is so interwoven into District 4 that Supervisor Mar helped create the Chinese Cultural District in the Sunset in 2021. During the initial planning process, some of the groups involved with its formation planned a march against anti-Asian hate on the Great Highway in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of the types of community activities that could be organized on a regular basis through the Sunset Chinese Cultural District,” Mar said at the time, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, politics lecturer at San Francisco State University, noted that Asian American leaders tend to be more in tune with the needs of that community. And those issues are many: Rising anti-Asian hate stemming from the pandemic, related but separate hate crimes and violence against Asians, and the health of Asian-owned businesses rank among needs Lee says are top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that is a concern for many people, including leaders in the Asian American community,” he said. “And it puts more pressure on the mayor to — through appointments, should openings come forward — to appoint Asian Americans to the Board of Supervisors so that we have a board that looks like the people of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of representation disproportionately affects the Chinese community in particular, which makes up a majority of District 4, said Malcolm Yeung, director of a prominent Chinatown nonprofit, the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Chinese community, this is a blow. You know, it’s decreasing our representation quite significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been an ongoing narrative since the recalls of District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school board candidates of an “emerging Chinese moderate vote,” Yeung said, a more vocal sector of the Chinese community that leans more centrist in their politics. Notably, with some exceptions, many previously elected San Francisco supervisors who are Asian were progressives: Eric Mar (brother to Gordon), Sandra Fewer, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and Connie Chan, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that newly activated electorate isn’t backing the usual Asian candidates in San Francisco, who have sometimes tacked toward progressive politics.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For more than a week after the November 8 election, control of the U.S. House of Representatives remained undetermined. All eyes had turned to more than half a dozen uncalled races in California when, on Wednesday, The Associated Press projected victory for Rep. Mike Garcia in his Los Angeles-area district, finally handing Republicans a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-election-results/#bb309280-b755-4f9a-8e25-836216d3ce2b\">slim majority in the new Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tense days ticked by without resolution, political pundits across the country once again lamented why the vote count takes so long in California, while conservatives resurfaced unsubstantiated claims that late-arriving ballots and slow results exposed Democratic efforts to steal close races.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Steve Glazer\"]‘Democracies are not meant to be efficient. They’re built on a foundation that every person’s vote matters.’[/pullquote]In reality, the extended count, which will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/upcoming-elections/general-election-nov-8-2022/key-dates-deadlines\">take a month to finish\u003c/a>, is a consequence of California’s shift to overwhelmingly voting by mail, a convenience that requires several additional steps of verification by local officials once ballots arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though election experts in California say there are several ways the state could potentially speed up the tally, there is little urgency to prioritize them. With policymakers focused instead on improving accessibility, participation and security, the waiting game seems here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracies are not meant to be efficient. They’re built on a foundation that every person’s vote matters,” said \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/steven-glazer-1957/\">state Sen. Steve Glazer\u003c/a>, an Orinda Democrat who leads the Senate committee on elections. Instant answers, he said, are not more important than ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer added that no one has ever raised serious concerns with him about the speed of vote counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current hysteria generated by some is a lot of bunk that feeds their ideological agenda to the detriment of trust in our democracy,” Glazer said. “Is there a way to make it faster? Yes, there is. It is worth the price, the cost?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mail ballots slow the tally\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The crawling pace of election results in California — with updates dribbling out day by day — stems from changes in how people vote over the past two decades. The state implemented no-excuse absentee voting in 2002, which during the coronavirus pandemic became a system where every active registered voter is mailed a ballot. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law last year making that permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts point to additional factors, including the sheer size of California and its independent redistricting process, which creates more competitive races where the outcome cannot be determined as quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the timeline is fundamentally driven by mail ballots, which simply take longer to count than those cast at a polling place on election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-800x530.png\" alt=\"Two women sitting across from each other at tables wearing blue gloves holding pieces of paper with other paper stacked next to them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-1536x1018.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM.png 1542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election workers sort ballots at the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections office in Sacramento on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/content/news-roundup-long-vote-counts-drop-box-access-117-election-hero-day\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a> found that, in November 2004, when fewer than a third of voters cast mail ballots, nearly 81% of voters were counted within two days of election day. By comparison, in the June primary this year, more than 91% of voters cast mail ballots and slightly less than half were counted within two days of election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 10 a.m. today, county election offices had counted about 9.2 million votes, but still had nearly 1.7 million \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2022-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf?_ga=2.173632931.1645641427.1667518793-363741129.1614728895\">ballots left to process (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons are not nefarious. Local election officials verify the signature on every mail ballot and check that the voter has not already cast a ballot in another jurisdiction before counting it. To minimize the number of legitimate votes that are disqualified for procedural reasons, California accepts ballots postmarked by election day that arrive as much as a week later and gives voters an opportunity to fix missing or mismatched signatures on their ballots. Before certification, election offices also recount 1% of ballots by hand as an internal audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge population of registered voters and California stresses enfranchisement, so we have a process that by law ensures both voting rights and the integrity of elections,” Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s chief elections officer, said in a statement Tuesday. “I would call on everyone to be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office did not make Weber available for an interview, but spokesperson Joe Kocurek said that, with the count still ongoing, “It’s a little early for us to assess whether any changes are needed.”[aside postID=\"news_11932517,news_11931421\" label=\"Related Posts\"]But the lengthy timeline has contributed to a growing partisan split in trust in elections, fueled by conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t69t02q?\">October survey\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that 74% of Republicans in California believe election security in the United States is under threat, while Democrats were evenly divided. Large numbers of Republican respondents considered people voting illegally or trying to change results to be major threats, with more than half expressing no confidence in machine counting of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ironic thing is that the people who are making claims questioning the veracity of our election results because of the long vote counts are overlooking that the reason it takes a long time to count mail ballots is because we are ensuring the security of the vote,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, which advocates to improve election administration and access to voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, she said, California should work to speed up the process to deal with the perception of malfeasance — and the torrent of abuse that it has unleashed on election officials, who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/1085425464/1-in-5-local-election-officials-say-theyre-likely-to-quit-before-2024\">burning out of the job\u003c/a> at extraordinary rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With elections, confidence is about people having confidence based on what’s actually happening and also confidence based on what they perceive is happening,” Alexander said. “Perception matters a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Changing voter habits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some solutions could be as simple as messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several county election officials said that people turned their ballots in earlier during the 2020 presidential election, allowing their offices to process a greater share of votes in the weeks leading up to election day and announce those results as soon as the polls closed. This year, more were dropped off at polling places on election day, or were still arriving this week because they were mailed later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Hale, registrar of voters for San Joaquin County, said she wants to run an educational campaign before the next election encouraging people to return their ballots earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could also be accomplished by creating more opportunities for early, in-person voting, such as the weekend before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 27 of 58 counties in California use the new Voter’s Choice Act model, which replaces neighborhood polling places with regional vote centers that open 10 days before Election Day and offer registration, voting and other services. Counties are responsible for the cost and administration of the vote centers, including finding locations and election workers to staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hale said she still plans to advocate for San Joaquin County to adopt the system, because “our current model fits a model of election that was in the past.” But she would also like to see the state offer grants to help counties upgrade their equipment and hire more staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to do what gives the voters what they want,” Hale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County does not use the Voter’s Choice Act model either, but many residents have taken advantage of the option to come to the elections office in person to have their mail ballot processed immediately, said Cathy Darling Allen, the county registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 people voted this way in the primary and that increased to more than 3,000 in the November election, which Allen attributed to skepticism around mail-in voting. She said the timeline for counting ballots is “a push and pull,” not just with voters but also with candidates and the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have tens of thousands of ballots. Of course that’s going to take us time,” she said. “Someone I worked with once told me, ‘Elections can be cheap and fast, and they can be accurate — but you have to pick two.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You just have to grind it out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When election offices are dealing with mail ballots, however, there’s not much they can do to go faster. Processing each one takes significantly more manual labor, including verifying the signature, opening the envelope and extracting the ballot, and aligning stacks of ballots for the counting machines. Damaged ballots that cannot be read by the machines are duplicated by workers and run through again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you receive 100,000, 200,000 ballots like that, it’s just a chore. You just have to grind it out,” said Tommy Gong, deputy county clerk-recorder for Contra Costa County. “I don’t think there’s anything that could speed it up, other than maybe more equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because each mail ballot envelope is scanned twice after it arrives — once to check the signatures and again to remove the challenged ballots for further verification or fixing — Gong said having a second sorting machine could speed up their tally by allowing them to undertake both steps simultaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that might also require more vote counters (Contra Costa County has six) and more employees (the county has 32 permanent and 65 temporary workers for the election) to maintain the pace, plus a larger space to house the massive machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that was a desire to be able to certify quicker, it would need to really be looked at holistically,” Gong said. “By doing things quicker, you certainly could be looking for ways to cut corners that could start chipping away at the integrity of the elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-800x526.png\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask and black shirt touches a monitor screen on a table while holding one headphone to her ear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-800x526.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-1020x671.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-1536x1011.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM.png 1544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Little, an election services specialist, tests the logic and accuracy of an accessible voting machine called ICX at the Contra Costa County Elections Department on Sept. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technological developments may ultimately help speed the vote count for mail ballots, though that is further down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gong said his office installed a new component on its scanner this year that opens the envelopes, so workers no longer have to put them through a separate machine. He’s less certain about automated signature verification, technology the bank industry is already using, because he believes that both workers and voters are more confident in human review.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a priority for policymakers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While California has radically overhauled its voting system over the past decade, adding automatic registration, universal mail ballots and free postage to expand access and participation, the speed of the count has not received much attention at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3634/state-role-elections-033017.pdf\">2017 report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office suggested that, to improve confidence in the election process, “the Legislature could make receipt of funding conditional on counties demonstrating efforts to improve the swiftness of their tallies.” That’s as far as the idea went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other programs have taken precedence in the budget. A \u003ca href=\"https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/legislative_budget_request_for_2022-2023_-_funding_for_voter_education_and_outreach.pdf\">request this year\u003c/a> by 17 legislators and several voting rights advocates for $85 million to conduct voter education and outreach did not even get a committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators who focus on voting rights and election policy said they were open to ideas from local officials and other states that could speed up ballot processing, but they expressed doubts that there would be easy solutions that could work across the entire state. Policies such as simplifying candidate filing requirements and updating recall rules seemed to be a higher priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the kind of thing we get very focused on and passionate about now, as the count is going slowly,” said \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/marc-berman-1980/\">Assemblymember Marc Berman\u003c/a>, a Palo Alto Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman, who carried the legislation to mail a ballot to every active registered voter in California, said creating new standards for how counties publicly report results and what information they share could be a simple, inexpensive fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when a lot of people are lying to the public to try to sow doubt in our democracy, that makes it that much more important for us to be as transparent as possible,” Berman said. “That transparency creates trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Pellerin, the former chief elections official for Santa Cruz County, was just elected to the Assembly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For more than a week after the November 8 election, control of the U.S. House of Representatives remained undetermined. All eyes had turned to more than half a dozen uncalled races in California when, on Wednesday, The Associated Press projected victory for Rep. Mike Garcia in his Los Angeles-area district, finally handing Republicans a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-election-results/#bb309280-b755-4f9a-8e25-836216d3ce2b\">slim majority in the new Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As tense days ticked by without resolution, political pundits across the country once again lamented why the vote count takes so long in California, while conservatives resurfaced unsubstantiated claims that late-arriving ballots and slow results exposed Democratic efforts to steal close races.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In reality, the extended count, which will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/upcoming-elections/general-election-nov-8-2022/key-dates-deadlines\">take a month to finish\u003c/a>, is a consequence of California’s shift to overwhelmingly voting by mail, a convenience that requires several additional steps of verification by local officials once ballots arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though election experts in California say there are several ways the state could potentially speed up the tally, there is little urgency to prioritize them. With policymakers focused instead on improving accessibility, participation and security, the waiting game seems here to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democracies are not meant to be efficient. They’re built on a foundation that every person’s vote matters,” said \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/steven-glazer-1957/\">state Sen. Steve Glazer\u003c/a>, an Orinda Democrat who leads the Senate committee on elections. Instant answers, he said, are not more important than ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer added that no one has ever raised serious concerns with him about the speed of vote counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current hysteria generated by some is a lot of bunk that feeds their ideological agenda to the detriment of trust in our democracy,” Glazer said. “Is there a way to make it faster? Yes, there is. It is worth the price, the cost?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mail ballots slow the tally\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The crawling pace of election results in California — with updates dribbling out day by day — stems from changes in how people vote over the past two decades. The state implemented no-excuse absentee voting in 2002, which during the coronavirus pandemic became a system where every active registered voter is mailed a ballot. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law last year making that permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts point to additional factors, including the sheer size of California and its independent redistricting process, which creates more competitive races where the outcome cannot be determined as quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the timeline is fundamentally driven by mail ballots, which simply take longer to count than those cast at a polling place on election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-800x530.png\" alt=\"Two women sitting across from each other at tables wearing blue gloves holding pieces of paper with other paper stacked next to them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-800x530.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-1020x676.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM-1536x1018.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.23.14-PM.png 1542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election workers sort ballots at the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections office in Sacramento on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent analysis by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvoter.org/content/news-roundup-long-vote-counts-drop-box-access-117-election-hero-day\">California Voter Foundation\u003c/a> found that, in November 2004, when fewer than a third of voters cast mail ballots, nearly 81% of voters were counted within two days of election day. By comparison, in the June primary this year, more than 91% of voters cast mail ballots and slightly less than half were counted within two days of election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 10 a.m. today, county election offices had counted about 9.2 million votes, but still had nearly 1.7 million \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2022-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf?_ga=2.173632931.1645641427.1667518793-363741129.1614728895\">ballots left to process (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons are not nefarious. Local election officials verify the signature on every mail ballot and check that the voter has not already cast a ballot in another jurisdiction before counting it. To minimize the number of legitimate votes that are disqualified for procedural reasons, California accepts ballots postmarked by election day that arrive as much as a week later and gives voters an opportunity to fix missing or mismatched signatures on their ballots. Before certification, election offices also recount 1% of ballots by hand as an internal audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge population of registered voters and California stresses enfranchisement, so we have a process that by law ensures both voting rights and the integrity of elections,” Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s chief elections officer, said in a statement Tuesday. “I would call on everyone to be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office did not make Weber available for an interview, but spokesperson Joe Kocurek said that, with the count still ongoing, “It’s a little early for us to assess whether any changes are needed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the lengthy timeline has contributed to a growing partisan split in trust in elections, fueled by conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t69t02q?\">October survey\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that 74% of Republicans in California believe election security in the United States is under threat, while Democrats were evenly divided. Large numbers of Republican respondents considered people voting illegally or trying to change results to be major threats, with more than half expressing no confidence in machine counting of ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ironic thing is that the people who are making claims questioning the veracity of our election results because of the long vote counts are overlooking that the reason it takes a long time to count mail ballots is because we are ensuring the security of the vote,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, which advocates to improve election administration and access to voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, she said, California should work to speed up the process to deal with the perception of malfeasance — and the torrent of abuse that it has unleashed on election officials, who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/1085425464/1-in-5-local-election-officials-say-theyre-likely-to-quit-before-2024\">burning out of the job\u003c/a> at extraordinary rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With elections, confidence is about people having confidence based on what’s actually happening and also confidence based on what they perceive is happening,” Alexander said. “Perception matters a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Changing voter habits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some solutions could be as simple as messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several county election officials said that people turned their ballots in earlier during the 2020 presidential election, allowing their offices to process a greater share of votes in the weeks leading up to election day and announce those results as soon as the polls closed. This year, more were dropped off at polling places on election day, or were still arriving this week because they were mailed later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Hale, registrar of voters for San Joaquin County, said she wants to run an educational campaign before the next election encouraging people to return their ballots earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could also be accomplished by creating more opportunities for early, in-person voting, such as the weekend before the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 27 of 58 counties in California use the new Voter’s Choice Act model, which replaces neighborhood polling places with regional vote centers that open 10 days before Election Day and offer registration, voting and other services. Counties are responsible for the cost and administration of the vote centers, including finding locations and election workers to staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hale said she still plans to advocate for San Joaquin County to adopt the system, because “our current model fits a model of election that was in the past.” But she would also like to see the state offer grants to help counties upgrade their equipment and hire more staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to do what gives the voters what they want,” Hale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County does not use the Voter’s Choice Act model either, but many residents have taken advantage of the option to come to the elections office in person to have their mail ballot processed immediately, said Cathy Darling Allen, the county registrar of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 people voted this way in the primary and that increased to more than 3,000 in the November election, which Allen attributed to skepticism around mail-in voting. She said the timeline for counting ballots is “a push and pull,” not just with voters but also with candidates and the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have tens of thousands of ballots. Of course that’s going to take us time,” she said. “Someone I worked with once told me, ‘Elections can be cheap and fast, and they can be accurate — but you have to pick two.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You just have to grind it out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When election offices are dealing with mail ballots, however, there’s not much they can do to go faster. Processing each one takes significantly more manual labor, including verifying the signature, opening the envelope and extracting the ballot, and aligning stacks of ballots for the counting machines. Damaged ballots that cannot be read by the machines are duplicated by workers and run through again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you receive 100,000, 200,000 ballots like that, it’s just a chore. You just have to grind it out,” said Tommy Gong, deputy county clerk-recorder for Contra Costa County. “I don’t think there’s anything that could speed it up, other than maybe more equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because each mail ballot envelope is scanned twice after it arrives — once to check the signatures and again to remove the challenged ballots for further verification or fixing — Gong said having a second sorting machine could speed up their tally by allowing them to undertake both steps simultaneously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that might also require more vote counters (Contra Costa County has six) and more employees (the county has 32 permanent and 65 temporary workers for the election) to maintain the pace, plus a larger space to house the massive machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that was a desire to be able to certify quicker, it would need to really be looked at holistically,” Gong said. “By doing things quicker, you certainly could be looking for ways to cut corners that could start chipping away at the integrity of the elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-800x526.png\" alt=\"A woman wearing a mask and black shirt touches a monitor screen on a table while holding one headphone to her ear.\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-800x526.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-1020x671.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM-1536x1011.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-17-at-4.25.47-PM.png 1544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Little, an election services specialist, tests the logic and accuracy of an accessible voting machine called ICX at the Contra Costa County Elections Department on Sept. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Technological developments may ultimately help speed the vote count for mail ballots, though that is further down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gong said his office installed a new component on its scanner this year that opens the envelopes, so workers no longer have to put them through a separate machine. He’s less certain about automated signature verification, technology the bank industry is already using, because he believes that both workers and voters are more confident in human review.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a priority for policymakers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While California has radically overhauled its voting system over the past decade, adding automatic registration, universal mail ballots and free postage to expand access and participation, the speed of the count has not received much attention at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3634/state-role-elections-033017.pdf\">2017 report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office suggested that, to improve confidence in the election process, “the Legislature could make receipt of funding conditional on counties demonstrating efforts to improve the swiftness of their tallies.” That’s as far as the idea went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other programs have taken precedence in the budget. A \u003ca href=\"https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/legislative_budget_request_for_2022-2023_-_funding_for_voter_education_and_outreach.pdf\">request this year\u003c/a> by 17 legislators and several voting rights advocates for $85 million to conduct voter education and outreach did not even get a committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators who focus on voting rights and election policy said they were open to ideas from local officials and other states that could speed up ballot processing, but they expressed doubts that there would be easy solutions that could work across the entire state. Policies such as simplifying candidate filing requirements and updating recall rules seemed to be a higher priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the kind of thing we get very focused on and passionate about now, as the count is going slowly,” said \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/marc-berman-1980/\">Assemblymember Marc Berman\u003c/a>, a Palo Alto Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman, who carried the legislation to mail a ballot to every active registered voter in California, said creating new standards for how counties publicly report results and what information they share could be a simple, inexpensive fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when a lot of people are lying to the public to try to sow doubt in our democracy, that makes it that much more important for us to be as transparent as possible,” Berman said. “That transparency creates trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Pellerin, the former chief elections official for Santa Cruz County, was just elected to the Assembly. The Democrat said she hates the question of why counting votes takes so long, comparing the tally to wine-making — processes that can’t be rushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I certainly would not want to compromise the intensive audits and verification and participation and security just to get it faster,” Pellerin said. “I think it takes the right amount of time to deliver democracy that is accurate and fair and transparent and accessible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Unified school board commissioner Ann Hsu, who was widely condemned for racist comments she made earlier this year, has lost her seat to challenger Alida Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though previously Hsu was in third place in the Board of Education race — for three open seats — she dropped to fourth place on Monday, and never recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, Hsu had no viable path to win. Hsu has 17.14% of the vote, with challenger Alida Fisher surpassing her at 17.75%. Fisher is leading Hsu by 4,054 votes — an insurmountable lead considering the 800 ballots left to count by the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWAeFHd0M-I\">YouTube video concession speech\u003c/a>, Hsu complained that people focused too much on the way she worded her sentiment about Black and brown families, instead of the message behind the words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding my campaign, we had challenges from the very beginning. It is unfortunate some people chose to focus on political correctness, rather than the substance of my entire statement,” Hsu said, which is that “parent involvement is critical to the success of children in school and in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued that if some parents can’t help students succeed — due to culture or life circumstances — the school district needs to step in and help those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the truth, whether politically correct or not,” Hsu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, an immigrant and a mother of SFUSD students, was appointed to the Board of Education by Mayor London Breed in March, following the recall of three school board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ann-hsu\"]A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920452/ann-hsu-sfusd-saga-after-racist-statement-whos-pushing-for-her-removal-and-whos-supporting-her\">Hsu faced her own calls to resign\u003c/a> from Black and brown communities after she made racist comments in a parents’ group candidate questionnaire, which she later apologized for. One Latina student speaking to KQED in August called Hsu’s comments “a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that controversy, however, some prominent politicians called for forgiveness and grace. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920452/ann-hsu-sfusd-saga-after-racist-statement-whos-pushing-for-her-removal-and-whos-supporting-her\">Mayor London Breed asked\u003c/a>, “How do we come together and make this a teaching moment?” Even Hsu herself said she would conduct “listening sessions and community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But did she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most prominent groups representing Black and Latinx San Franciscans, the NAACP and San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club, said Hsu never reached out to fix the harms she had caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulanda Williams, third vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, said Hsu’s dwindling electoral support may show that San Francisco voters didn’t accept Hsu’s apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actions speak louder than words,” Williams said. “Hsu was lacking in cultural competency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWAeFHd0M-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Ann Hsu’s concession speech in a YouTube video, above.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quincy Yu, Hsu’s campaign spokesperson, said it’s “not true” that Hsu has done no outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, her outreach was out of the spotlight, Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has for the last three months been in the community speaking to parents, faith-based organizations and nonprofit organizations. She has not politicized any of this. She has quietly and consistently reached out,” Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name those organizations, Yu said, “I am not at liberty to disclose them. They are faith-based.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the intense scrutiny, early ballot returns showed Hsu as the third-place vote-getter for the San Francisco Board of Education, with three open positions. That changed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Elections has continued to count provisional ballots turned in the day of the election, and with each passing tally, Hsu’s grip on third place loosened. Monday, that grip slipped completely, and her closest competitor, Alida Fisher, a special education advocate, surpassed her into third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher now appears poised to join the Board of Education, as the pattern of ballot results has only continued in her favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931650 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Fisher speaks into microphone at event\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District board candidate Alida Fisher speaks at an election night event at El Rio in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever joins the Board of Education will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927789/sf-school-board-candidates-try-to-distance-themselves-from-performative-politics-of-recalled-commissioners\">arrive during a time of turmoil and transition\u003c/a>: Students are still lagging in testing after pandemic lockdowns, payroll system errors have deprived many teachers of their salaries, and there’s a national concern for school safety following high-profile school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is more at stake than just Hsu’s political career: Fisher’s win would tilt the ideological majority of the Board of Education away from supporting Mayor London Breed’s policies. A newly left-leaning board might, for instance, revisit the decision to make Lowell High School merit-based, long a desire of Black students who championed an open lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those speaking to KQED said it’s likely that, in the eye of the public, she never recovered from her comments saying Black and brown families do not value education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Fisher reached out to groups representing communities of color. She spoke at length to the local NAACP chapter last month and asked questions to help understand the needs of Black families attending San Francisco schools, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was so impressed with Fisher that, after the visit, she said, “I have far more hope that Fisher is more understanding and aware of Black culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher told KQED, “I don’t want to be the voice of Black families or of Latinx families or Pacific Islander families, but I sure as hell want to elevate their voices. I think that it’s important to have that. It’s important to have those voices represented. And if they’re not members who sit on the board themselves, then whatever I can do to help elevate their experiences and their perspectives, I see that as my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the NAACP, the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club also publicly discussed their disappointment in Hsu’s previous anti-Black and anti-brown comments. Bahlam Vigil, an officer of the club, said that after their public rebuke of Hsu and subsequent invitation to talk, she never responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tried reaching out to her behind the scenes. We even asked Supervisor Gordon Mar to help. She reached out to us on Twitter, publicly, but she never followed up in private,” Vigil said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to build coalitions that are multicultural,” Vigil added. “We didn’t want to make this about politics, we wanted to make it about healing. We were really worried her comments would continue this divide that has perpetuated among communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, Hsu’s spokesperson, said Hsu had learned much since the comments she made earlier in the year. Black and brown communities are firstly “not monolithic,” she said, and there are transportation issues and other roadblocks that are contributing to truancy among Black and Latinx students that Hsu is eager to help tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what Yu described as quiet outreach, a lack of support from Black and brown San Francisco communities may be reflected as the remaining ballots are tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, political science lecturer at San Francisco State University, said the neighborhoods that voted strongest for Hsu were ones with the most Asian voters: the Richmond District, the Excelsior, Visitacion Valley and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods alone weren’t enough to carry Hsu to victory. Her weak showing in more progressive neighborhoods on the eastern side of San Francisco was particularly notable given that Hsu was appointed to the school board, and incumbents are normally hard to topple. But Hsu also out-raised all of her opponents, Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu had more than $93,000 in campaign contributions; Fisher raised roughly $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a stunning reversal of fortune for this candidate who looked like she had everything going for her,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one place where Hsu suffered was in \u003ca href=\"https://www.annforsfboe.com/endorsements\">endorsements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them evaporated in the face of her racist comments, and that could have cost her votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor London Breed-backed Hsu picked up endorsements from groups that are strong allies of the mayor, like the Chinese American Democratic Club, Edwin M. Lee Asian Pacific Democratic Club, GrowSF and the United Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she failed to pick up endorsements from labor groups and major Democratic clubs like the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club or Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and, perhaps most key, the teachers union and the San Francisco Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle also endorsed Breed’s two other appointees but not Hsu, endorsing Fisher instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers union, the United Educators of San Francisco, endorsed only Fisher and Lisa Weissman-Ward, a Breed appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu said Hsu tried to spread the word on her campaign and raise funds, but she “did not go after endorsements because, frankly, those organizations had already condemned her without giving her the ability to address the larger issues. I’m sure those endorsements help a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local Democratic Party often swings with San Francisco’s progressives but, for the school board, it endorsed two mayoral appointees — although notably, not Hsu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they also endorsed Fisher. Lee said endorsements are important in school board races, which are considered low-information, “down-ballot” races, where voters depend a lot on recommendations from groups instead of on doing research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The local Democratic Party endorsement carries a lot of weight in down-ballot races, such as a school board election. And in this case, clearly it did because Alida Fisher was endorsed and Hsu was not,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Julia McEvoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920452/ann-hsu-sfusd-saga-after-racist-statement-whos-pushing-for-her-removal-and-whos-supporting-her\">Hsu faced her own calls to resign\u003c/a> from Black and brown communities after she made racist comments in a parents’ group candidate questionnaire, which she later apologized for. 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She has not politicized any of this. She has quietly and consistently reached out,” Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name those organizations, Yu said, “I am not at liberty to disclose them. They are faith-based.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the intense scrutiny, early ballot returns showed Hsu as the third-place vote-getter for the San Francisco Board of Education, with three open positions. That changed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Elections has continued to count provisional ballots turned in the day of the election, and with each passing tally, Hsu’s grip on third place loosened. Monday, that grip slipped completely, and her closest competitor, Alida Fisher, a special education advocate, surpassed her into third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher now appears poised to join the Board of Education, as the pattern of ballot results has only continued in her favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931650 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Fisher speaks into microphone at event\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District board candidate Alida Fisher speaks at an election night event at El Rio in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever joins the Board of Education will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927789/sf-school-board-candidates-try-to-distance-themselves-from-performative-politics-of-recalled-commissioners\">arrive during a time of turmoil and transition\u003c/a>: Students are still lagging in testing after pandemic lockdowns, payroll system errors have deprived many teachers of their salaries, and there’s a national concern for school safety following high-profile school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is more at stake than just Hsu’s political career: Fisher’s win would tilt the ideological majority of the Board of Education away from supporting Mayor London Breed’s policies. A newly left-leaning board might, for instance, revisit the decision to make Lowell High School merit-based, long a desire of Black students who championed an open lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those speaking to KQED said it’s likely that, in the eye of the public, she never recovered from her comments saying Black and brown families do not value education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Fisher reached out to groups representing communities of color. She spoke at length to the local NAACP chapter last month and asked questions to help understand the needs of Black families attending San Francisco schools, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was so impressed with Fisher that, after the visit, she said, “I have far more hope that Fisher is more understanding and aware of Black culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher told KQED, “I don’t want to be the voice of Black families or of Latinx families or Pacific Islander families, but I sure as hell want to elevate their voices. I think that it’s important to have that. It’s important to have those voices represented. And if they’re not members who sit on the board themselves, then whatever I can do to help elevate their experiences and their perspectives, I see that as my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the NAACP, the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club also publicly discussed their disappointment in Hsu’s previous anti-Black and anti-brown comments. Bahlam Vigil, an officer of the club, said that after their public rebuke of Hsu and subsequent invitation to talk, she never responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tried reaching out to her behind the scenes. We even asked Supervisor Gordon Mar to help. She reached out to us on Twitter, publicly, but she never followed up in private,” Vigil said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to build coalitions that are multicultural,” Vigil added. “We didn’t want to make this about politics, we wanted to make it about healing. We were really worried her comments would continue this divide that has perpetuated among communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, Hsu’s spokesperson, said Hsu had learned much since the comments she made earlier in the year. 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She was raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776832/speaker-nancy-pelosi-was-made-for-this-moment\">in a political family\u003c/a>: Her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., was a congressman and served as mayor of Baltimore, as did her brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A devout Catholic, Pelosi brought that spirit of faith and public service to San Francisco when she moved there with her husband in 1969. The couple had four daughters and a son within six years. But even as a young mother, Pelosi carved out time to volunteer for Democratic candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She later became chair of the California Democratic Party and, in that role, lured the Democratic National Convention to San Francisco in 1984. 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Over 250,000 San Jose citizens thought seriously about what direction they wanted for our city before they cast their ballots,” said Mahan, in a statement. “While we are hopeful that the majority of voters have chosen common sense and change, however they voted, I am deeply grateful to every person who cast their ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-jose-mayor\"]While Mahan won over 60% of the votes cast at the polls on Election Day, Mahan and Chavez are virtually tied as hundreds of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots continue to be processed and counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real close race – and we applaud the work the registrar is doing to ensure the outstanding ballots are processed and voters’ voice are heard,” Chavez’s campaign manager Brian Parvizshahi said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José mayoral race was dominated by debates over the candidates’ approaches to reducing homelessness and improving public safety — along with arguments over which of the candidates was better positioned to bring change to city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With decades of experience, as a San José City Council member, labor leader and, currently, Santa Clara County supervisor, Chavez touted her work funding hospitals and health services and pushing for the passage of a $950 million affordable housing bond, Measure A, in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first run for mayor, in 2006, Chavez was weighed down by her ties to embattled mayor Ron Gonzales. This time around, Chavez framed her candidacy as a departure from the leadership of current mayor Sam Liccardo — who endorsed Mahan — on issues such as police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan ran on a vow to shake up City Hall by tying councilmember and mayoral pay to specific benchmarks on reducing crime and housing the unhoused. With just two years under his belt on the City Council, the former tech executive honed sharp attacks on Chavez’s record in local government — on housing, policing and serving residents with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He charged the county with taking too long to enact reforms on mental health treatment, said the Chavez-backed housing bond was taking too long to show results, and tied the city’s current staffing shortages to cuts that followed generous pension votes made by Chavez in the early 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/006_KQED_CindyChavezSanJose_11082022.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara county supervisor Cindy Chavez\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/006_KQED_CindyChavezSanJose_11082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/006_KQED_CindyChavezSanJose_11082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/006_KQED_CindyChavezSanJose_11082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/006_KQED_CindyChavezSanJose_11082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/006_KQED_CindyChavezSanJose_11082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José mayoral candidate Cindy Chavez greets a supporter on Election Day at her campaign headquarters in San José on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cost of housing was a top concern for many San José voters, including Susana Burgos, an East San José resident who has lived in the city for over 25 years and was able to vote for the first time on Election Day after her naturalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that I’m a citizen … we have to use our voice and vote to speak for those who cannot vote,” Burgos told KQED in Spanish. “In my work I get to talk to families every day at stores, in the supermarket, and what comes up is that housing is too expensive, that there’s not enough preschools and places for parents to leave their kids while they work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s candidacy motivated Anh Nguyen, a downtown San José resident who works in the mental health sector, to become more engaged with the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tend to avoid politics because I don’t like confrontation, I don’t like debates. But I realized that in my life, I wanted to learn how to make a difference,” Nguyen told KQED. “I love [Mahan’s] consistency, his accountability, his authenticity … I don’t trust politics, but I trust Matt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Óscar Quiroz-Medrano, a South San José resident who voted for Chavez, was turned off by Mahan’s attack ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Cindy Chavez could do a lot better than Matt Mahan. From her views and how she promotes herself, I think she’s more open to alternative housing models and really open to listening to the community,” he said. “There was a lot of smear campaigns coming from Matt Mahan that I really did not like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates listed the hiring of more police officers as their top priority if elected. The city’s violent crime rate jumped in 2021, although the rate of property crimes like burglary and vehicle theft have been on a steady decline for a decade. The city’s police force has slowly been growing after Great Recession cuts and departures, but the department has 200 fewer positions than it did at the turn of the century. While the City Council could soon weigh whether to move internal investigations outside of the department, Chavez and Mahan focused far more attention on hiring than oversight and reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of Mahan’s platform to reduce homelessness was the construction of emergency interim housing units: prefabricated or quick-build homes for unhoused residents, often on government-owned land. Chavez argued those units would be no substitute for permanent supportive housing, where unhoused residents could receive wraparound services. Neither candidate laid out a detailed vision for how to combat neighborhood opposition that routinely quashes both short-term and permanent homeless housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the race will be back on the ballot in 2024, thanks to voter-approved changes aligning future mayoral elections with presidential contests. But the election reforms will allow the city’s next mayor to seek two additional terms, with the potential to serve in the city’s top job until 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cstrong>Updated November 14, 2022 at 2:43 AM PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>As votes continue to trickle in, Republicans are still on track for a narrow majority in the House, but it would likely be a much smaller one than they were hoping for — and will make legislating difficult in a GOP House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still 19 uncalled races, all except two are in the West, with millions of votes left to count in California. California traditionally takes a long time to count mail-in ballots, and this is commonplace for every recent election as it relates to House races. So it could still be days until control of the House is sorted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also still retain a longshot chance at a majority, but they would need multiple races where Republicans are currently leading to shift their direction. That path got slightly harder overnight, as one race where they were leading has now shifted toward Republicans. (More on that path below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135921636/house-senate-results-close-margins\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>To see just how close races are, check out our graphic that shows the margins in each of the remaining uncalled House races.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s where things stand, by the numbers (as of Monday, 5:43 a.m. ET):\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At this point, Republicans lead \u003cstrong>212-204\u003c/strong>. (218 is needed for a majority.) So Republicans need to win 6 of the 19 uncalled races for House control, or 32%.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If current leads hold, Republicans would wind up with a \u003cstrong>222-213\u003c/strong> majority. That would mean Republicans \u003cem>could only lose four \u003c/em>members of their conference to pass legislation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s also possible that that number shrinks. Keep an eye on the 13\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> congressional district in California, for example, where the Republican currently holds an 84-vote lead with just 61% of the vote in. (A Democratic pickup there there would give Republicans a \u003cstrong>221-214\u003c/strong> majority.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Current net pickups: R+8.\u003c/strong> They have flipped 15 competitive seats to Democrats’ 7, according to the Associated Press, which makes calls for NPR. (Republicans needed a net gain of 5 pickups to take control this cycle.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Where they’re leading:\u003c/strong> Republicans currently have flipped (15) or are winning (2) in 17 seats. Democrats have flipped (7) or are winning (1) in nine seats — for \u003cstrong>R+9\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Estimated Republican pick up: 7 to 11 seats.\u003c/strong> That would give Republicans just a 2- to 6-seat majority.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Democrats’ longshot path to a majority\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Democrats would need to see shifts in five races from Republican to Democrat. The most likely suspects to watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CA-13\u003c/strong> (R+84 votes, 61% in)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AZ-1 \u003c/strong>(R+894 votes, 94% in – this shifted from a Democratic lead to a Republican one overnight)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CA-41\u003c/strong> (R+4k, 74% in)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CA-22\u003c/strong> (R+3k, 53% in)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AZ-6\u003c/strong> (R+2k, 89% in)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Others have slightly larger Republican leads at this point or have more vote in: CA-45, CA-27, NY-22, CO-3. CO-3 is the seat held by Rep. Lauren Boebert. She’s up only 1,110 votes, but 99% of the vote is in, and she had been down, so things look like they’re trending in her direction. But we will continue to monitor closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sending messages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Republicans flipped OR-5 after an Associated Press call Sunday night. That was a seat previously held by Democratic Rep. 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But she voted for former President Trump’s impeachment and was ousted by the right in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an irony in the fact that she was ousted because she voted to impeach Trump and, now, a Democrat has taken over that seat. It’s indicative of the broader message in this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Of the three dozen races rated as toss up by the Cook Political Report, Trump endorsed five — and \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterms.html\">\u003cstrong>all lost\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>Please keep in mind that these numbers are fluid and will change as votes continue to roll in. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/election-results-live-2022\">\u003cem>See the latest results here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/election-results-live-2022/#/senate\">The Senate: \u003c/a>Democrats 48, Independents 2, Republicans 49, Uncalled 2\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>(The two independents caucus with the Democrats.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their wins the last two days in Arizona and Nevada, as well as their flip of the Pennsylvania seat, Democrats will retain the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a remarkable accomplishment for Democrats with a president whose approval rating has been below 50% for more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But base energy over the issue of abortion and a slew of Trump-backed candidates, who failed in purple states, proved to thwart a potential Republican Senate takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1129431966/alaska-election-results\">\u003cstrong>Alaska\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>This has been added to the Republican total even though the race is not settled yet, because both leading candidates are Republicans, so this will stay in GOP hands. The question is at this point: which Republican. Incumbent Lisa Murkowski (R) trails Kelly Tshibaka (R) by less than 2 percentage points, or just under 3,000 votes, with 80% in. If neither candidate gets above 50%, this goes to a ranked-choice re-tabulation Nov. 23. Murkowski would likely be favored to win that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1129441809/georgia-election-results\">\u003cstrong>Georgia: \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker (R) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1134332366/georgia-senate-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-midterm-elections-results-2022\">are headed to a runoff\u003c/a> because neither surpassed 50% on the ballot. Warnock missed the threshold by just under 23,000 votes. Democrats have the chance to expand their Senate majority with a win there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happened since Friday\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1129578688/nevada-election-results\">\u003cstrong>Nevada:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto took the lead after a batch of votes Saturday night were reported in Clark County. Shortly thereafter, she was declared the winner, clinching Senate control for Democrats. There is still vote to count in Nevada, which we will monitor, including 15,000 provisional votes from Clark County, which could also help Cortez Masto extend her lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1129435556/arizona-election-results\">\u003cstrong>Arizona:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly’s lead expanded by about 8,000 votes with the Friday night batch of about 80,000 votes out of Maricopa County. 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That path got slightly harder overnight, as one race where they were leading has now shifted toward Republicans. (More on that path below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135921636/house-senate-results-close-margins\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>To see just how close races are, check out our graphic that shows the margins in each of the remaining uncalled House races.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s where things stand, by the numbers (as of Monday, 5:43 a.m. ET):\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At this point, Republicans lead \u003cstrong>212-204\u003c/strong>. (218 is needed for a majority.) So Republicans need to win 6 of the 19 uncalled races for House control, or 32%.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If current leads hold, Republicans would wind up with a \u003cstrong>222-213\u003c/strong> majority. That would mean Republicans \u003cem>could only lose four \u003c/em>members of their conference to pass legislation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s also possible that that number shrinks. Keep an eye on the 13\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> congressional district in California, for example, where the Republican currently holds an 84-vote lead with just 61% of the vote in. (A Democratic pickup there there would give Republicans a \u003cstrong>221-214\u003c/strong> majority.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Current net pickups: R+8.\u003c/strong> They have flipped 15 competitive seats to Democrats’ 7, according to the Associated Press, which makes calls for NPR. (Republicans needed a net gain of 5 pickups to take control this cycle.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Where they’re leading:\u003c/strong> Republicans currently have flipped (15) or are winning (2) in 17 seats. Democrats have flipped (7) or are winning (1) in nine seats — for \u003cstrong>R+9\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Estimated Republican pick up: 7 to 11 seats.\u003c/strong> That would give Republicans just a 2- to 6-seat majority.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Democrats’ longshot path to a majority\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Democrats would need to see shifts in five races from Republican to Democrat. 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It’s indicative of the broader message in this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Of the three dozen races rated as toss up by the Cook Political Report, Trump endorsed five — and \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterms.html\">\u003cstrong>all lost\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Note: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>Please keep in mind that these numbers are fluid and will change as votes continue to roll in. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/election-results-live-2022\">\u003cem>See the latest results here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/election-results-live-2022/#/senate\">The Senate: \u003c/a>Democrats 48, Independents 2, Republicans 49, Uncalled 2\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>(The two independents caucus with the Democrats.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their wins the last two days in Arizona and Nevada, as well as their flip of the Pennsylvania seat, Democrats will retain the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a remarkable accomplishment for Democrats with a president whose approval rating has been below 50% for more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But base energy over the issue of abortion and a slew of Trump-backed candidates, who failed in purple states, proved to thwart a potential Republican Senate takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s left\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1129431966/alaska-election-results\">\u003cstrong>Alaska\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: \u003c/strong>This has been added to the Republican total even though the race is not settled yet, because both leading candidates are Republicans, so this will stay in GOP hands. The question is at this point: which Republican. Incumbent Lisa Murkowski (R) trails Kelly Tshibaka (R) by less than 2 percentage points, or just under 3,000 votes, with 80% in. If neither candidate gets above 50%, this goes to a ranked-choice re-tabulation Nov. 23. Murkowski would likely be favored to win that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1129441809/georgia-election-results\">\u003cstrong>Georgia: \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker (R) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1134332366/georgia-senate-herschel-walker-raphael-warnock-midterm-elections-results-2022\">are headed to a runoff\u003c/a> because neither surpassed 50% on the ballot. Warnock missed the threshold by just under 23,000 votes. 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