Update: Certified Final Official Results of the City of San Bernardino City Clerk’s General Election: Gigi Hanna by three votes.

By Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law

The certified official results in the General Municipal Election for City of San Bernardino City Clerk are that Gigi Hanna has won by three votes:

From the San Bernardino Registrar of Voters:

Last Updated: February 13, 2012 2:31 PM

Registration & Turnout

71,881 Voters

	Vote Count	Percent
Precinct Turnout	12,205	16.98%
Total	12,205	16.98%

 

City Clerk, City of San Bernardino

170/170 100.00%

	Vote Count	Percent
GEORGEANN ”GIGI” HANNA	6,073	50.01%
AMELIA SANCHEZ-LOPEZ	6,070	49.99%
Total	12,143	100.00%

Compared to the semi-official results below, there were 13 new ballots added to turnout, and Gigi Hanna gained 8 new votes, and Amelia Sanchez Lopez gained 6 new votes.  From these numbers, there were 62 ballots that had problems, either under votes, over votes, write-ins, or spoiled ballots.  That is the same number as on the semi-official results.

Here are the previous numbers:

Last Updated: February 7, 2012 9:20 PM

Registration & Turnout

71,881 Voters

	Vote Count	Percent
Precinct Turnout	12,192	16.96%
Total	12,192	16.96%

City Clerk, City of San Bernardino

170/170 100.00%

	Vote Count	Percent
GEORGEANN ”GIGI” HANNA	6,066	50.01%
AMELIA SANCHEZ-LOPEZ	6,064	49.99%
Total	12,130	100.00%

 

There is also an automatic manual recount established by Election Code section 15360.  By law, a random sample of ballots from every election must be recounted manually to verify the computer count.  A minimum of one percent of all votes cast is included in the process.  This must occur before the election is certified.  The automatic manual recount is open to the public.  A court explained it like this:

“1 percent manual tally” is a procedure used in California to test whether there are any discrepancies between the electronic record generated by a voting machine and what is essentially a manual audit of that electronic record. Essentially, after each election, the “official conducting the election” is to conduct a “public manual tally of the ballots tabulated” by any voting machines “cast in 1 percent of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official.” (§ 15360.)  Nguyen v. Nguyen (2008) 158 Cal.App.4th 1636, 1643.

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Copyright 2012 Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law.

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