Election Roundup — Fremont Mayor
By Chris DeBenedetti
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 at 5:20 pm in Uncategorized.
The latest ballot count was posted around 4:45 p.m. today (Wednesay, 11/14). The Alameda County Registrar has counted the vast majority of ballots, and just 16,000 provisional ballots — which must be handcounted — remain. The bottom line is that the Fremont mayoral race figures are not budging. On Sunday afternoon, Bill Harrison had 34.09 percent of the vote and led second place candidate Steve Cho (who had 31.95 percent) by a 2.14 percent margin.
Three days later, it’s basically the same. Harrison now leads by 2.16 percent. Cho spoke to me on Nov. 7, the morning after Election Day and said he was not yet ready to concede. A week later, he has not returned any phone calls since last week.
Here are Wednesday’s results:
Bill Harrison — 21,971 votes — 34.03 percent
Steve Cho — 20,577 votes — 31.87 percent
Anu Natarajan — 16,883 votes — 26.15 percent
Aziz Akbari — 3,630 votes — 5.62 percent
Linda Susoev — 1,387 votes — 2.15 percent
Write-In — 118 votes — 0.18 percent
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November 16th, 2012 at 7:31 am
http://www.indiawest.com/news/7604-natarajan-loses-hard-fought-fremont-mayoral-race.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co
“In the bitterly-contested race, laced with hints of back-room politicking and under-the-table bargaining, the Tamil Nadu-born Natarajan came in third…”
Bitterly contested??? If only it had been, perhaps the result would have been different. Silence is to the benefit of the status quo.