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D.A. Lacey moves closer to runoff as she drops below 50% vote margin

by City News Service • March 10, 2020

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey

LOS ANGELES – As ballots continue to be tallied from last week’s election, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey fell below the 50% mark in her reelection bid Tuesday, moving her closer to an increasingly likely November runoff against former San Francisco D.A. George Gascon.

Lacey would need to finish with more than 50% of the vote from the March 3 election to avoid a runoff. But while she was above that level when unofficial results were announced after the election, her margin has been steadily decreasing as the county tallies vote-by-mail, provisional and same- day-registration ballots.

The first tally from last week showed Lacey with 51.6% of the vote. But that margin dropped to 50.7% when the first counting update was released, then it fell to 50.1%, and then to 50% on Friday.

The latest vote totals released Tuesday, March 10, by the county Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk’s Office showed Lacey with 49.9% of the vote.

There are about 493,450 ballots left to count, according to the county.

The next vote-counting update is scheduled to be released Friday afternoon.

Previous related stories: Lacey clinging to hopes in D.A.’s race

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1 comment for "D.A. Lacey moves closer to runoff as she drops below 50% vote margin"

  1. Gowchong says

    March 12, 2020 at 4:33 pm

    In this case, we have to vote for the lesser of the two evils. Lacy is horrible and favors criminals. However, Gascan is exponentially worse than Lacy. Law Enforcement Officers would rather have the lesser of the two evils (Lacy) in that Gascon who is reputed to favor criminals far more than Lacy.

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