Marin elections office nearly finished with ballot count

With nearly all the ballots counted from the Nov. 5 election in Marin County, Brian Colbert leads Heather McPhail Sridharan by 646 votes in the race for the District 2 seat on the Board of Supervisors, the elections office reported Wednesday.

The only uncounted ballots remaining in the county have issues involving missing signatures or signatures that do not appear to match the ones on file. The voters who cast the ballots have been notified and have until Dec. 1 to fix the problem.

On Wednesday, the county elections office added 2,505 votes to the total of 144,202 previously counted. The local election turnout was 85.14% of registered voters, well below the 90% forecast. Mailed ballots accounted for more than 87% of the votes in Marin.

Statewide, only 69.3% of registered voters cast ballots, compared to 81% in the 2020 presidential election.

The updated ballot count on Wednesday included just 324 votes in the District 2 contest. Colbert, a member of the San Anselmo Town Council, has 51.18% of the 27,450 votes cast in the race. On Election Day, when 13,101 had been counted, Colbert had 51.32%.

Several Marin races remained close following Election Day, and while nearly half of the ballots arrived after Nov. 5, it appears the leaders will remain the same as the initial counts.

In the race for three seats on the Fairfax Town Council, Frank Egger remains in first place with 21.75% of the vote. Mike Ghiringhelli is in second place with 18.58% and Barbara Coler is in third with 13.57%.

Close behind Coler are Chance Cutrano with 13.01%, Bruce Ackerman with 12.96% and Cindy Swift with 12.42%. Doug Kelly trails with 7.71%.

In the race for two Town Council seats in Tiburon, Holli Thier is in first place with 27.29%, Isaac Nikfar has 26.87% and Andrew Thompson has 25.39%. Chuck Hornbrook trails with 20.44%.

In the race for two seats on the Marin City Community Services District board, Henry Mims leads with 41.22%. Lynnette Egenlauf is in second place with 32.54%, followed by Royce McLemore with 26.24%

In the race for the Division 2 seat on the Marin Municipal Water District board, Diane Maier remains in first place with 37.15% of the vote and Robert Sandoval has 36.74%. Jack Kenney is in third place with 26.11%

In the race to represent Division 3 on the North Marin Water District board, Michael Joly has 52.95% of the vote over Francis Drouillard.

Lynda Roberts, the county registrar of voters, said “official final election results” will be released on Dec. 3.