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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
YAMASAKI LANDSLIDE in OUSD
eLECTION Watch 2016
Orange Net News /O/N/N/
A SUPER TUESDAY FOR YAMASAKI
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In
a clear rebuke of the Orange County Republican Establishment, Orange Unified Republican
voters joined with Democrats and Independents and elected Community Advocate
Andrea Yamasaki over Republican Establishment Endorsed Greg Salas.
Winning
74 % of the vote, Yamasaki easily won election after her supporters ousted Salas
by petition from his appointed post.
Yamasaki
won based on her community connections over Salas who's main community
connection was that he played on a basketball team with OUSD Trustee Timothy
Surridge who admitted he had recruited Salas for the vacancy on the OUSD
Board after the resignation of Diane Singer.
Even
after being rebuffed by the community in a petition, Salas forced the district
to spend over $500,000 on a Special Election by entering the election.
While
Yamasaki conducted a flawless campaign, Salas struggled to have a campaign of any significant
meaning and could go down as one of the worst local campaigns ever waged.
UPDATE: 3/2/16: 20,822 ballots cast: 19.5%
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OUSD Area 1 Vote by Mail Election turn out at 16.7%
(3/1/16 before votes released)
Orange
County Registrar's office reports on the all mail ballots reveal that 17,988
ballots were received by today- March 1st, 2016. A total of 107,546 ballots were mailed out
bringing the total vote returned to 16.7% as of this posting on March 1st before the final ballots of the day.
Of
the 17,988 ballots returned, total of 9,607 ballots were from Republicans (53.4%
of the vote). Democrats returned 5,028 ballots (28% of the vote). Independents
and minor party votes made up the remaining 3353 ballots (18.6% of the total vote).
OUSD
Total Ballots mailed
107,546
· Registered Republicans= 47,899 45.5%
· Registered Democrats
= 31,126 28.9%
· Other Registration =
28,521 26.6%
Percentages
of Total Registered Voting in OUSD
election
· Registered Republicans = 20%
· Registered Democrats = 16.2%
· Other Registration
= 11.7%
The
Orange County Registrar of Voters will continue to release voting results as late ballots postmarked on March 1st continue to arrive.
