{"id":5190,"date":"2012-11-07T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2019-08-06T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T01:39:36","slug":"sf-election-update-d7-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/5190\/sf-election-update-d7-too-close-to-call\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Election Update: D7 too Close to Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5191\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5191\" title=\"Francis Xavier Crowley and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2012\/11\/fx_crowley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2012\/11\/fx_crowley.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2012\/11\/fx_crowley-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Xavier Crowley, who is endorsed by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, is leading the field in the ranked choice race for District 7 Supervisor. Photo via Facebook.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 7, 2012<\/p>\n<p>With over 93,000 citywide ballots yet to be processed and counted, the District 7 race for Supervisor is looking more and more like a nail biter between the race current leader, Francis Crowley, and Norman Yee.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160730192202\/http:\/\/sfelections.org:80\/results\/20121106\/data\/d7.html\">6 rounds of Ranked Choice Voting iterations<\/a>, Crowley (9062 votes) leads Yee (8724 votes) by 338 votes.<\/p>\n<p>If current trending continues, with more votes transferring from Supervisor Sean Elsbernd-endorsed candidate, Michael Garcia, to Crowley than to Yee, Crowley will likely be crowned District 7 Supervisor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5192\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5192 \" title=\"Norman Yee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2012\/11\/norman_yee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2012\/11\/norman_yee.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2012\/11\/norman_yee-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norman Yee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Elections said of the 93,000 uncounted citywide ballots, 49,000 ballots are from polling stations, 20,000 are vote by mail ballots and 24,000 are provisional ballots.\u00a0 District 7 is one of 6 odd-numbered districts where residents voted for a district supervisor on the eleven-member Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>Updates will be made available at 4 pm each day until all the ballots have been processed and counted, the Department of Elections said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 93,000 citywide ballots yet to be processed and counted, the District 7 race for Supervisor is looking more and more like a nail biter between the race current leader, Francis Crowley, and Norman Yee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[163,1994,291,1993,1278,65],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-department-of-elections","tag-election","tag-f-x-crowley","tag-norman-yee","tag-san-francisco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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