Posted on 11/10/2016 1:55:13 PM PST by Red Badger
An Oceanside man who died of natural causes in September was elected to office in the coastal San Diego County city more than a month later, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Gary Ernst was elected to Oceanside City Treasurer by a six percent margin over challenger Nadine Scott. The election results are expected to be certified on December 7th by the city council.
Ernst died Sept. 23 which did not allow enough time to remove his name from the ballot.
With all precincts reporting, Ernst earned 17,659 votes.
City councilmembers can declare the seat vacant since the winner cannot physically take office, according to Oceanside’s City Attorney John Mullen. That will lead to either an appointment or a special election.
If city leaders choose to appoint someone for two years, the decision must be made within 60 days, Mullen said.
Scott told NBC 7 that she would like to be appointed to honor the 15,500 voters who cast their ballot for her.
She said she believes voters were not informed that Ernst was deceased prior to the election because some city leaders wanted to appoint another candidate after the election.
Talk about your low information voters. On that topic, our next-door neighbors are BIG Dems, great people and we agree to disagree. But last Saturday I asked Dan who all the folks were over at their place and he said they were calling for Hillary. He mentioned one call where the person said they had already voted. Who for, asked Dan? The Republican was the answer. Oh, who was that asked Dan? Hillary Clinton was the response. We both got a good chuckle out of it.
What state?..............
What state? California of course, where tax increase propositions and ammunition control propostions pass by a 2 to 1 majority.
i don’t know the candidates in that race but...considering the caliber of so many people who run for office nowadays....
maybe this winner fellow was the best candidate for the job...
Sorry for the delay. We live in Iowa.
No problem. It’s snowing?.............
We got 5 inches last weekend. It’s gone now but we do have wind chill of around +5F.
“The name you know.”
We have dark cloudy skies and a temp of 58° and will get down to 34° tonight........BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!..........gotta find my sweater................
The PARTY you know..................
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