Marin County supervisor candidate requests recount in District 5 race

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News July 2, 2026July 2, 2026

(L-R) Andrew "Andy" Podshadley and Magali Limeta were candidates for Marin County's District 5 Board of Supervisors seat in the June 2, 2026, election. Podshadley has requested a recount, questioning whether Limeta received enough votes to win outright without a November runoff. (Andrew Podshadley, Magali Limeta via Bay City News)

A candidate for Marin County’s District 5 seat on the Board of Supervisors has requested a recount of ballots from the June 2 election, questioning whether the winner received the required 50% of the vote.

Andy Podshadley submitted the request to the county registrar on Monday, which falls within the five-day time limit of Friday’s election certification of results.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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