‘I won the election!!!!!’: Oakland school board incumbent keeps seat after vote count error

by Keith Burbank, Bay City News January 3, 2023December 31, 2022

Oakland Unified School Board incumbent Mike Hutchinson appears in an undated campaign photo. Initially the runner-up in his reelection bid, Hutchinson was declared the winner after election officials discovered an error in the ranked-choice voting tabulation. (Photo courtesy of Mike Hutchinson)

Oakland school board election results are changing because of a misconfiguration of the system that tallied the votes, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announced last week.

The Nov. 8 election results for District 4 in the Oakland Unified School District will change because of the error.

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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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