NAACP demands recount of Oakland mayoral election result, decries ranked-choice voting

by Keith Burbank, Bay City News December 22, 2022December 20, 2022

The Alameda County Court House on Fallon Street in Oakland is home to the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. Registrar Tim Dupuis said this week his agency has been unsuccessful finding someone to conduct a manual recount in three disputed 2022 races, including the Oakland mayoral election. (Google image)

Black voters in Oakland are demanding that the Alameda County Registrar of Voters support a mayoral election recount and educate historically marginalized groups about ranked-choice voting.

The demands from the Oakland branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People come following an Oakland mayoral race decided by fewer than 700 votes and a change to the ranked-choice process in the Nov. 8 election.

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Keith Burbank, Bay City News

Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.

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