The city’s rent control and just-cause eviction measure trails by 2,400 votes, as of Monday afternoon.
According to the San Mateo County Elections Office, 12,567 votes, or 55.28%, are against Measure E, while 10,167 votes, or 44.72%, are for it. On Nov. 4, the office said 23,977 ballots have been returned in Redwood City for the general election.
Countywide, 50,000 ballots remain to be counted, including vote-by-mail ballots received on, before or after election day, conditional registration ballots, and challenged ballots that can be cured until Nov. 25. The office does not keep records on how many of those belong to Redwood City.
We are optimistic that the trend we’ve seen since election night will continue and Measure E will be defeated,” said Joshua Howard, an executive with the California Apartment Association, which represents rental home and apartment owners and developers and opposes the measure.
“The results so far show voters recognize that this is an excessive, extreme, and expensive proposition that will do nothing to ensure new homes are built but instead saddle the city with an $ 11-million-per-year bureaucracy,” Howard continued.
Council member Chris Sturken, the only Redwood City council member to support the measure, said that the fact that nearly 22,000 ballots were cast on Measure E shows him that about a quarter of Redwood City’s population cares about addressing the housing crisis.
The next results will be released before 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 12, and the final Statement of the Vote will be certified on Dec. 3.
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