November 17, 2:30 p.m. update: There are about 500 provisional ballots from the South Lake Tahoe and Meyers areas that need to be counted, along with a few mail-in ballots.
According to Linda Webster, Assistant Registrar of Voters for the County, there are a few mail-in ballots still to be counted county-wide. She expects there will be an update to the returns before Thanksgiving with a final release of figures right after the holiday. It will be that final report that will include the provisional ballot count.
Webster said that it would be highly unlikely for any current results to change. Tamara Wallace, candidate for SLT City Council is 110 votes behind Jason Collin. She has received 16.7 percent of the vote to date, and would need to get about 22 percent more than Collin of the remaining uncounted votes to change the outcome.
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November 16
El Dorado County has released their count of a large number of ballots, and even though the numbers increased, the results of the November 8 election remained the same. Election officials have until December 6 to certify the election results.
There were over 20,000 ballots dropped off at polling places throughout the county, and with those large numbers added to approximately 3,000 provisional ballots it took staff extra time to verify each ballot.
Here are the results as of November 16:
South Lake Tahoe City Council- Top 2 Win
Brooke Laine 2424 22.12%
Jason Collin 1888 17.23%
Tamara Wallace 1778 16.23%
JoAnn Conner 1319 12.04%
Ted Long 1225 11.18%
Danny McLaughlin 730 6.66%
John Shearer 716 6.53%
Harold “Trey” Riddle 306 2.79%
Robert Topel 272 2.48%
Patrick Jarrett 257 2.35%
Lake Tahoe Unified School District
Area 1
Larry Reilly 959 53.70%
Annie Davidson 819 45.86%
Area 3
Bonnie Turnbull 1129 53%
Dr. Michael Doyle 991 46.53%
South Tahoe Public Utility District – Top 2 Win
Randy Vogelgesang 5147 35.08%
Kelly Sheehan 3992 27.20%
Nick Exline 2938 20.02%
Kirk David 2560 17.45%
Lake Tahoe Community College District
Area 4
Nancy Dalton 1162 56.14%
David Hamilton 904 43.67%
Lake Valley Fire Protection District – Top 3 Win
Leona Allen 2282 30.27%
John Rice 2102 27.89%
Robert Bettencourt 1748 23.19%
Tony Sears 1360 18.04%
Measure P 2/3 to pass
Yes 4256 68.80%
No 1930 31.20%
Measure U Majority to Pass
Yes 2553 43.32%
No 3340 56.68%