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The outcome of Tuesday’s election in Palo Alto remained unchanged Friday, even after about 4,300 additional ballots were counted beyond Tuesday night’s totals.
In all, about 14,100 out of 36,100 of Palo Alto’s eligible voters, or 39 percent, took part in the election, according to figures totals released Thursday afternoon by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.
About 1 percent of all ballots are still being counted, spokeswoman Elma Rosas said Friday afternoon. The one percent typically consists of provisional ballots, those cast at precincts other than the voter’s own, which need to be verified.
Measure A, the business-license tax, went down to defeat by about 57 percent to 43 percent.
Current Palo Alto City Councilman Larry Klein, Planning Commissioner Karen Holman, former school board member Gail Price, community volunteer and managerial accountant Nancy Shepherd and attorney Greg Scharff were elected to terms on the Palo Alto City Council beginning in January.
Klein received 7,723 votes; Holman, 7,579; Price, 7,441; Shepherd, 6,367; and Scharff, 5,855.
Of the remaining candidates for council, Leon Leong garnered 4,937 votes; Dan Dykwel, 4,353; Corey Levens, 3,666; John Morrow Hackmann, 3,636; Brian Steen, 2,973; Timothy Gray, 2,098; Chris Gaither, 1,281; Mark Weiss, 720; and Victor Frost, 456.
By Palo Alto Weekly staff
An impressive result for Karen Holman. Good luck to Karen and to all the newcomers.
It’s great that Klein won again…he really is a great candidate
I’m wondering whether the entire Council election should be thrown out. I thought of running but one reason I didn’t was that the salary of a council member is only $600 per month. The job attracts only people have a lot of passive income to live off of, but I don’t and it would be difficult to find a second job or gifts that wouldn’t give me a c-of-i (too 🙂
So what if I were to challenge the election on that basis? Maybe others feel the same way. If I had run, or if others similarly situated had run, maybe the whole set of results would be different.