Santa Clara County’s special assessor race this year has cost the county tens of millions of dollars. A county advisory board said ranked choice voting would have avoided that. Amid winter storms and holiday festivities, county voters were asked to cast their ballot by Dec. 30 — raising concerns about low voter turnout deciding the region’s next chief property taxer. Candidates Neysa Fligor and Rishi Kumar won the most votes during the Nov. 4 special election, but neither got enough to win outright. The result — on top of spending $13 million for the November race — will have officials shelling out…
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