- Elizabeth Larson
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Final primary election ballot count confirms two supervisorial runoffs, school bond passage
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Registrar of Voters Office is still in the midst of certifying the results of the June primary election, but officials have released the final election tallies and the placements in local races that emerged during the preliminary count have remained the same.
The count confirms that there will be two runoff elections in the fall, for the supervisorial seats representing District 1 and District 4, while District 5 has been settled, as has the vote for “Measure U,” a bond for the Kelseyville Unified School District.
The final official results the Registrar of Voters Office released to Lake County News showed that in the District 5 supervisorial race, incumbent Supervisor Rob Brown of Kelseyville handily won reelection, with 2,281 ballots or 63.1 percent of the vote.
Brown ran against Phil Reimers of Cobb, who received 851 votes or 23.5 percent of the vote, and John Stoddard of Kelseyville, who received 484 votes or 13.4 percent.
In District 1, the two candidates in the fall runoff remain Middletown residents Monica Rosenthal and Jose “Moke” Simon III.
Rosenthal received 912 votes, or 28 percent of the vote, trailed closely by Simon, with 894 ballots, or 27.5 percent, cast in his favor.
The remainder of the field included Voris Brumfield of Anderson Springs, with 827 ballots or 25.4 percent of the vote, and Hidden Valley Lake resident Jim Ryan, with 620 votes or 19.1 percent.
In District 4, Tina Scott and Martin Scheel, both of Lakeport, led the field and will race to November.
Scott received 1,253 votes, or 32.9 percent, while Scheel received 962 votes, or 25.2 percent.
Finishing out of the runoff are Lakeport residents Ted Mandrones, 726 votes, 19 percent; Phil Murphy, 514 votes, 13.5 percent; and Ron Rose, 358 votes, 9.4 percent.
Kelseyville Unified's school facilities improvement bond Measure U received overwhelming voter support, with yes votes totaling 2,165 or 61.7 percent, compared to no votes, which numbered 1,346 or 38.3 percent.
As for how Lake County voted in the presidential race, the final results showed that Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont received the most local votes of any presidential candidate, with 5,195 ballots cast in his favor.
Businessman Donald Trump received 4,163 Lake County votes, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton received 3,988 local votes.
In June, Lake County's absentee or vote-by-mail voters once again cast the most ballots, totaling 11,670, compared to the 5,042 votes cast at precincts.
Overall, there was a 51-percent voter turnout, with 16,712 votes cast, according to the final results.
For comparison, those turnout numbers surpass the presidential election year primaries in 2008 and 2012, when there was a 34-percent and 42.5-percent turnout rate, respectively, according to the registrar's records.
The final certified results are due to the California Secretary of State's Office on Friday. The Lake County Registrar's Office reported Wednesday that work to submit those final results to the state was still under way.
The Secretary of State's Office reported that, as of Wednesday, all ballots in the 58 counties across the state have now been counted, with Lake completing its count on Tuesday, the same day as a host of other counties wrapped up.
San Diego, San Mateo and Sonoma were the last counties to report completing their counts on Wednesday, the Secretary of State's Office reported.
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