FILE: A Santa Clara County resident casts his vote at the Registrar of Voters Office in San Jose, Calif. in September 2021. (Harika Maddala/ Bay City News)
A special run-off election will take place in Santa Clara County on Tuesday as voters decide who will be the next County Assessor.
Candidates Neysa Fligor, Los Altos vice mayor and current assistant assessor, and Rishi Kumar, Saratoga City Councilmember and tech executive, are on the ballot, neither of which garnered more than 50% of the vote in the Nov. 5 election, triggering a run-off.
The winner will replace Larry Stone, who stepped down in July and served as Santa Clara County assessor for 30 years.
Fligor received the most votes on Nov. 4, with 37.67% of the vote. Kumar received 24.01%.
Voters can cast their ballot in person at a polling place on Tuesday, or by mail, by dropping the ballot off at a vote center, or at any of the county’s official drop boxes. To find the nearest drop box, go to sccvote.org.Â
Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.
